460 cix. ACANTHACB^. (C. B. Clarke.) [StrobilantJies. 



91. S. quadrangularis, Clarke; leaves large subsessile broadly- 

 elliptic acuminate at both ends serrate minutely hairy, heads ovoid pedun- 

 cled, bracts large ovate acute grey pubescent caducous, corolla IJ in. pubes- 

 cent -without. Euellia quadrangnlaris, Wall. Cat. 2358. B. bracteata, 

 Wall. Cat. 2357 b only. Goldfussia bracteata, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. 

 iii. 88, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 173. 



Nepai ; Wallich. Kttmaon ; Mohargari, alt. 6500 ft., and Kalamundi, alt. 8500 ft., 

 Straohey Sf Winterbottom. 



Stem 2 ft., herbaceous, acutely quadrangular, somewhat pubescent upwards. 

 Leaves 8 by 3J in., shortly scabrous-setulose above, remotely minutely hairy beneath ; 

 nerves 13 pair. Feduncles 1-4 in., 1-2 in each axil or the uppermost-subumbellate, 

 hairy, cTavate, quadrangular upwards, 1-headed ; heads in flower IJ in. ; bracts |-1 in., 

 deciduous before the flowers expand ; bracteoles 0. Calyx ^ in., distinctly gamo- 

 sepalous, subequally 5-fid ; segments linear-oblong, green, very viscidly golden-pubes- 

 cent. Corolla m sh.a,^e Tiear\j as oi S. Dalhousianiis, Copsaie not seen. 



92. S. pentstemonoides, T. Anders, in Joum. Linn. Sao. ix. 477, in 

 part ; leaves elliptic acuminate at both ends glabrous, bracts orbicular con- 

 cave whitened glabrous, bracteoles 0, calyx pubescent, corolla 1^ in. nearly 

 glabrous pale purple. Euellia pentstemonoides. Wall. Cat. 2340. R. 

 Cephalotes, Wall. Cat. 2352. R. capitata. Wall. Cat. 2351, paHly. _ Gold- 

 fussia pen-tstemonoides, Nees in Wall. PL As. Par. iii. 88, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xi. 175 ; Wight Ic. t. 1510. 



SuBTEOPiCAi, Himalaya, alt. 1-6000 ft., from Nepai to Bhotait, frequent; 

 WallicTi; B.f.^ T.,&c. 



A much branched shrub, 3-8 ft. diam. ; stems glabrous. Leaves 6i by 2J in., 

 closely serrate, liueolate on both surfaces ; nerves 7 pair ; petiole J in. Peduncles 

 1-3 in., sometimes glandular-hairy, 1-2 together, mostly 1-3-headed ; beads J— 1 in., 

 young exactly globular, outer bracts enclosing the heads ; but in some of Wallich's 

 examples the young heads are oblong^cylindric, strobiliforra ; bracts 4-J in., obtuse, 

 early caducous. Calyx \ in., in fruit often J in., divided nearly to the base, segments 

 linear. Corolla more or less curved ; naiTow part of the tube sometimes minutely 

 pubescent. Stamens glabrous. Capsule f in., oblong-clavate, glandular-pubescent, 

 4-seeded. Seeds \ in., ovate, silky ; areoles very small. 



Vae. flexuosa ; small, branches short flexuose rooting, peduncles long with 1 small 

 head. Euellia flexuosa, Wall. Cat. 2412. Goldfussia flexuosa, Nees in Wall. PI. As. 

 Mar. iii. 88, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 175.—" India," Serh. Wight. Brancliesl-1^ foot, 

 apparently prostrate. Leaves 2 J by | in., thinly herbaceous ; nerves 5 pair. — The 

 example in Herb. Wight looks very unlike the Himalayan S. pentstemonoides; and, 

 though taken up. as a species by Nees, T. Anderson seems to have been so dissatisfied 

 about it that he has left it out altogether. But there is a piece of the same thing 

 mixed in Wallieh's herbarium with Ruellia Cephalotes (Wall. Cat. 2352, type sheet) ; 

 and it is probably an alpine starved (or cultivated ?) form of S. pentstemonoides. 



93. S. Dalhousianus, Clarice; leaves elliptic acuminate at both 

 ends hairy, bracts orbicular concave whitened glabrous, bracteoles 0, calyx 

 glabrate or sparingly hairy, corolla nearly 2 in. glabrous purple. S. pent- 

 stemonoides, T. Anders, in Journ. lAnti. Soc. ix. 477, partly. Goldfussia 

 Dalhousiana, JVees in DC. Prodr. xi. 174; Wight Ic. 1. 1509. 



W. Tbmpeeatb Himalaya, alt. e-8000ft.; from Kashmir to Kumaon, frequent j 

 Lady Lalhousie, Thomson, &c. 



A suberect shrub, 2-3 ft.; stems hairy. Bracts scarcely J in., caducous; outer- 

 most oblong, green upwards, small, not enclosing the heads. Calyx in the typical 

 form glabrous, subscarious, lobes linear-oblong, sometimes minutely softly hairy. — 

 United with iS. pentstemonoides by T. Anders., from which it differs in habit, in having 

 much more hairy leaves and less hairy calyx. It also grows at a different level. 



