462 cix. ACANTHACES. (C. B. Clarke.) [Sirobilanthes. 



abont as long as the moderately-widened ventricose part j B^xnents ovate. Filaments 

 and style sparsely hairy. Capsule J in., narrowly elliptic, pubescent upwards, 4-seeded. 

 Seeds ^ in., ovate, silky ; areoles hardly any. — Korz rightly refers this to the neigh- 

 bourhood of 8. pentsiemonoides. 



98. S. discolor, T. Anders, in Joum. Linn. Soc. ix.477; leaves elliptic 

 cuspidate-acuminate glabrous, heads cymose ranning into compound 

 panicles, bracts if ngacious, calyx bairy, corolla I5 in. nearly glabrous. 

 Goldfassia discolor, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 172 (excl. West Himalayan 

 examples). ' ' 



BnoTAif, Assam, and Khasia Mts.; Griffith {Serb. Propr. nn. 2399, 2400 ; 

 Kew Distrib. nn. 6105, 6120). 



A shrub, closely resembling S. pentstemonoides and S. sessilis; differing from the 

 former in having the leaves more shortly petioled, less sharply toothed, the inflores- 

 cence more compound ; from the latter in the leaves cuspidate acuminate. In the 

 type examples of Nees the leaves are scarcely whitened beneath. Bracts not seen, 

 oblong-lanceolate,^<ie Nees. 



Vae. nudicab/x; leaves densely lineolate above coriaceous very white beneath, 

 bracts J in. obovate, sepals glabrate lineolate. Goldfussia sp. n. 25, Serb. Ind. Or. 

 S.f. Sf r.— Khasia, alt. 4000 ft. ; Mausmai Falls, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6120); 

 Cherra, S. f. l( 2*.— The type examples of this collected by J. D. H. look like a 

 very distinct species ; but some of the pieces of (Griffith have the sepals glandular 

 hairy. 



99. S. isopbyllus, T. Anders- in Cat. Sort. Calcutt. 43, and in Joum. 

 Linn. Soc. ix. 478 ; leaves linear-lanceolate attenuate at both ends glabrous, 

 heads numerous small cymed, bracts elliptic obtuse green shorter than the 

 calyx, bracteoles nearly as long as the bracts, corolla 1 in. nearly glabrous 

 lavender. Goldfussia isophylla, Nees in Wall. Cat. 7162, and in Trail. PL 

 As. Bar. iii. 88, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 176; JSot. Mag. t. 4363 ; Maund 

 Bot. t. 244. StrobUanthes Goldfussia, Balz. Sf Cribs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 71, 

 excl. syn. 



Khasia Mts., or adjoining parts of SUhet or Assam. AH the examples are of 

 cultivated plants. 



A nearly glabrous, erect, very ramous shrub, 1-2 ft. Leaves 3 by J-J in., oppo- 

 site, subequal, entire or slightly serrulate, covered with raphides on both surfaces j 

 nerves 4^5 pair ; petiole 0-| in. Seads \ in. diam., 1^-fld., terminal but appearing 

 axillary cymed, the reduced leaves on the short axillary branches being caducous ; 

 bracteal leaves to the heads caducous ; bract \ In. , green, nearW glabrous, subper- 

 sistent ; bracteoles \ in., linear-oblong, green, nearly glabrous. Calyx \ in., divided 

 nearly to the base, pubescent; segments sublinear. CoroHa curved ; cylindric base 

 much shorter than the ventricose portion, lobes short round. Stamens and style 

 hairy. Capsule nearly ^ in., glabrous, 4-seeded. Seeds -^ in., ovate, silky; areoles 

 hardly any. 



100. S. anisophyllus, T. Anders, in Cat. Sort. Calcutt. 43, and in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 478 ; leaves very unequal or pseudo-alternate lanceolate 

 acuminate at both ends glabrous, heads small often cymed, bracts elliptic 

 obtuse green about as long as the calyx, bracteoles rather shoi-ter than the 

 bracts, corolla 1^ in. nearly glabrous lavender. RueUia anisophylla. Wall. 

 Cat. 2349 ; Sook. Fl. Exot. t. 191. E. persicifolia, GHff. Llin. Notes, 70 ; 

 Bot. Beg. t. 955. Goldfussia anisophylla, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 88, 

 and in DC. Prodr. xi. 176 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3404. 



Khasia Mts., alt. 1^000 ft., common ; Wallich, Sec. 



A shrub, 2-3 ft. Leaves SJ by |-1 in. ; the opposite leaf of each pair IJ by ^ in. 

 or obsolete. — Except in the unequal, rather broader leaves, this wholly agrees with 



