with very long whit< 
cine segments more i 
the 2 middle ones a 
;e or brown often gland tipped hairs all subequal in length or the bract twice as long as the others and the calj- 
or less unequal. Corol about 1 inch long whitish with a tinge of red, stamens 4 scarcely monadelphous included, 
, little shorter, style glabrous, ovary a little hairy at the apex. Anders. in. Thw. JPl. Zey. p. 228. 
Common on the Brumagherries in the Wynaad at 3500 feet elevation, also in Coorg and South Canara (Kudra Mukb), and 
in Ceylon (Hantani, at 2000-3000 feet.) 
PLATE CCXm. 
STROBILANTHES JEYPORENSIS. (Bedd.) A large shrub, branches obtusely 4-angl«d a little hairy above glabrous 
below, leaves submembrauaceous broadly ovate with along acumination suddenly attenuated at the base crenate, densely lineolate above 
and furnished with a few setm, slightly pubescent below with longish inconspicuous hair, 6-7 inches long without the petiole by about 
4 broad, petioles 3 inches long. Spikes axillary trifid or single 3-4 inches long linear lanceolate flowered from nearly the base, bracts 
bracteoleB and calyx glandaloso-pnbescent and long subulato-acnminate, bracts lanceolate 3-nerved, bracteoles linear a little shortet 
than the calyx, calycine segments distinct to the base linear, flowers small, corol about $ an inch long white, tube contracted only at the 
very base, stamens 2 monadelphous, filaments hairy, style and ovary glabrous, capsule smooth mucrona.te much shorter than the calyx, 
The Gudam hills near Golcondah (Vizagapatam district), 2500 feet elevation, also mountainous tracts in the Jeypore country, 
PLATE CCXIY. 
STROBILANTHES CANARICA. (Bedd.) A rigid shrub 3-4 feet. Stems hirsute obtusely" 4 sided, leaves coriaceous ovate 
pointed prominently veined entire or subentire on the margins, when young densely lanate with white hair, in age sparingly hirsute on 
both sides or nearly glabrous above, 2-3 inches long by about 1* inches broad, petioles 3-6 lines long, spikes short dense terminal and 
from the upper axils generally crowded several together in each axil shorter than the leaves oblong and flowered from the base, bracts 
ovate hirsute, bracteoles linear-lanceolate hirsute shorter than the calyx, calyx cleft half down the segments linear-lanceolate hirsute, 
corol white puberulous outside a little hairy within, about f inch long, the tube contracted only at its very base, stamens 2 monadel¬ 
phous, sometimes rather unequal, anther cells somewhat pointed at the base, filaments a little hairy. Style hairy, ovary glabrous. 
South Canara, on the Kudra Mukh mountain, elevation 6000 feet. 
PLATE CCXV. 
STROBILANTHES CONSANGUINEUS. (Nees) A large shrub, stems somewhat 4-angled glabrous or a little 
membranaceous or sub-membranaceous ovate acute or acuminate, suddenly attenuated at the base, prominently and v, 
veined, glabrous on both sides but densely lineolate, or hairy beneath, quite entire or more or less crenate without t 
inches long by 2J-3J inches broad, petioles up to 4 inches long the pair often very unequal, spikes axillary 3-4 incl 
various from simple and filiform to much branched, and from nearly glabrous to densely hirsute, flowers white or pale blue 
long, bracts ovato-lanceolate nerved glabrous or a little hairy or densely hirsute, bracteoles shorter than the calyx lift" 
calyx cleft A down, segments linear-lanceolate acute, corol-tube contracted at the base, glabrous or puberulous outside, £ 
monadelphous, filaments glabrous or a little hairy, style hairy, ovary hairy at the apex. Endopogcm c ' ' 
nmomuxn, Nees. 1. e. p. 104. 
the foot up to 5000 feet. Oi 
variety figured is the commonest form 
thegbats of the Nilgiris and l>aln 6 ,s and other mountainous parts of our Weston, 
y common in the Bolumputty valley, has the spikes much paniculate and densely 
hairy, leaves 
ry regularly 
in petiole 4-5 
ghats, from 
hirsute, the 
STROBILANTHES NIGRESCENS. (T. Anders.) A shrub 4-5 feet stems ere.ttetrn.nn , , , 
serrate 4-5 inches long by 1*1 J broad glabrous on both sides bnt donu i .- i * , 8 al, leaves lanceolate acumi 
terminal bispid shorter to a little longer than the leaves, bracts lLeoUte“*7tha ^ 
little longer tba„ tb. braeteolee linear aud with tb. “ glauduloso-bisp 
terminal hispid shorter t 
little longer than the calyx, bracteoles linear and with the caWr „u n A. i J -7 ° *-nervea giamiuioso-uw 
about 1 inch long pale purple, tube contracted at the base lobes ciliate f 1 fT* ^ se 8 raents acute ’ 
ovary glabrous. Anders. 1. c. p. 226. * ' St 2 rabm °nadelphoua, filaments glabrous, style 1 
Ceylon, Ambegamwa district, 3000 feet elevation. 
PLATE CCXVn. 
