Strobilanthesi] 
CVI. ACANTHACE7E. 
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11 . STROBILANTHES, Bl. 
Herbs or undershrubs often large. Leaves often very unequal, 
sometimes falsely alternate, crenate or serrate. Flowers often 
showy in heads or strobilate, solitary, panicled or cymose or m 
small clusters panicled. Bracts prominent or small and caducous. 
Bracteoles 2 or o. Sepals sub-equal free taearly to base. Corolla 
tubular campanulate, lobes round. Stamens 4 > anther-cells 2. 
Pollen grains ribbed not spiny ellipsoid. Ovary oblong or ellipsoid; 
ovules 2 in a cell; style with one long branch. Capsule narrow 
ellipsoid, short-stalked, 4-seeded. About 200 species, Africa, 
Asia, Australia. 
Heads solitary, few-flowered, enclosed in 2 large 
leafy bracts; flowers large, white ; 
slender shrubs. 
Leaves scarcely hairy ..... 
Leaves pubescent ; bracts broader 
Leaves red hairy; bracts rufous hairy . 
Heads several-flowered with many leafy bracts ; 
a big shrub, glabrous ; flowers white . 
Flowers strobilate or in short heads, con¬ 
spicuously red hairy. 
Slender plant, small leaves and small ovoid 
head ...... 
Slender plant; leaves narrow, short; heads 
2- to 3-flowered; bracts spathulate 
Heads cylindric with leaf-like bracts, 2 in. 
long ; robust plant .... 
Heads oblong or ovate, solitary. 
Leaves hairy ...... 
Leaves above glabrous or nearly. 
Leaves broad elliptic .... 
Leaves broad lanceolate .... 
Head solitary, globose sessile .... 
Heads 3 or 4, terminal and axillary; leaves 
veined white ..... 
Flowers in racemes with conspicuous, oblong 
white hairy bracts . . • ■ 
Bracts small caducous; flowers in lax spikes 
or panicles. 
Panicles terminal spreading. 
Leaves membranous; flowers white . 
Leaves sub-coriaceous, blue 
Inflorescence spicate. 
Spikes terminal and axillary ; flowers 
pedicelled . ■ • * _ 
Spikes in pairs axillary ; flowers sessile 
Inflorescence of 3 peduncled heads 
(1) S. Maingayi 
(2) S. bibracteatus 
(3) S. hirtisepalus 
(4) S. latebrosus 
(5) S. rufo-sepalus 
(6) S. rufo-pauper 
{7) S. rufo-strobilatus 
(8) S. ruficaulis 
(9) S. rufo-capitatus 
(10) S. vulpinus 
(11) S. scabridus 
(12) S. albostriatus 
(13) S. leucopogon 
(14) S. collinus 
(15) S. pachyphyllus 
{16) S. sylvestris 
(17) S. phoeniceus 
(18) S. pedicellatus 
(1) S. Maingayi Clarke in Hook. fil. F.B.I. iv. 448; Jovirn. As. 
Soc. Beng. Ixxiv, 655. r T 
Low branched shrubby plant up to 3 ft. tall, pubescent. Leaves 
very unequal, glabrous, broad lanceolate serrulate acute, base 
shortly narrowed, the larger ones 3 in. long, 1-5 in. wide, many much 
