468 cix ACANTHACE^). (C. B. Clajke.) [Strobilanthes. 



teTminal, pedicelled. Cah^x J-J in., divided nearly to the base ; segments linear. 

 Corolla straight, tubular-ventricose, hardly J in. diam. ; segments short, ronnd. 

 Filaments and style glabrous ; ovary 4-ovDlate. Capsule J in., clavate, compressed, 

 pubescent, 4-seeded. Seeds ,^ in., orbicular ; when wetted the fine hairs spring out ; 

 areoles very small. — Kurz, after removing this species to Strobilanthes, suggests that 

 it is allied to Hemigraphie OriffitMana, of which not merely the ovules, but the 

 inflorescence, &c., are totally difiierent. 



119. S. secundtis, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 480; leaves 

 elliptic acute at both ends nearly glabrous, spikes lax long, flowers distant 

 in opposite pairs, bracts petioled ovate decidaonB, corolla 1^ in. minutely 

 pubescent without yellow with a brown-purple tube. — StrobOainthes sp. 

 n. 23, Eerh. Ind. Or. H.f. SfT.,' ' 



MiSHMEE and Assau -, Chriffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6122). AsSAU ; Simotu. 



Leaves Gi by 3 in., crenate or snbentire, ashy pnberulous on the nerves beneath 

 otherwise glabrous, upper surface with minute raphides ; nerves 8 pair ; petiole J in. 

 Spikes 12 in., whip-like, sparingly branched (in Griffith's type specimens), sometimes 

 depauperated 3 in., 5-fld. ; lower bracts leaf -like, upper gradually smaller, leaf-like, 

 deciduous, uppermost only ^ in., lanceolate ; bracteoles obsolete. Calyx ^ in., divided 

 nearly to the bascj glabrous, enlarged in fruit ; segments unequal, narrowly lanceolate, 

 linear-elongate, subobtuse. Corolla curved, cylindric base hardly so long as the calyx. 

 Capsule nearly 1 in., base long barren narrow, 4-seeded. Seeds ^—^ in., ovate, 

 shaggy J areoles very small. 



120. S. fiaccidifolius, Nees in DC. Prodr. xi. 194; glabrous, 

 leaves elliptic acute at both ends, spikes forming somewhat dense panicles, 

 flowers opposite many remote, bracts petioled ovate deciduous, corolla 2 in. 

 nearly glabrous purple. T. Anders, in Journ. lAam. Soc. ix. 481. S. 

 Championi, T. Anders, in Benth. IFl. Mongh. 261. S. flaccidus, Mann, 

 Assam For. Sep. 1876-7, par. 135; Gamble, Man. Ind. Timh. 280 ; Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 239. EueUia indigofera, Chiff. Trav. 237. R. indigotica, Fortune, 

 Resid. Chin. 158. Balfour, Oi/clop. Ind. TV. (Puellia). B. Cusia, 

 Ham. in Wall. Cat. 2386. Goldf ussia Cusia, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Sar. 

 m. 88, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 175. Bipteracanthus ? calycinus, Champ, in 

 Sooh. Few Journ. v. 133. 



N. and £. Benqaii with Assam, alt. 1-4000 ft. in the lower hills, often cultivated, 

 Samilton, Griffith, &c. — Distbib. N. Burma, S. China. 



A shrub. Leaves aaA flowers closely resembling (when dry) those of S. secundus, 

 but the inflorescence denser, the flowers rather larger. Capsule | in., not constricted 

 at the base ; lower seeds less than ^ in. from the base. — Except as to the capsule, this 

 looks exceedingly like a cultivated form of S. seeuridus. Yields the dye " Room." 



Series C. AltemiflorcB. Brads persistent or caducous, large or small, 

 in opposite pairs (sometimes unequal) one of each pair mostly barren. 

 Spikes linear lax usually interrupted often flexuose, zigzag or twisted, or 

 compound passing into much-branched panicles ; spikes upwards at least 

 generally sympodaJ. Flowers mostly distant, alternate. — (Several species 

 in this section have some of their flowers opposite, but these are in such 

 case often twisted much to one side ; and in many cases where such occur 

 as solitary in the axils of leaves, they are really alternate on shortened 

 axillary branches with 2 opposite bracts, whereof one only contains a flower.) 

 — Species of N. India and the Malay Peninsula. 



121. S. divaricatus, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 478 ; leaves 

 lanceolate or elliptic acumiaate at both ends glabrous, spikes axillary and 

 terminal elongate flexuose or zigzag, flowers distant both paired and alter- 



