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STROBILANTHES YIOLACEUa (Bedd.) A large shrub, stems bluntly 4-angled gknduloso-hirsute above, leaves thickly | 
membranaceous ovate to elliptic long petioled the pair often unequal acute or acuminate rather suddenly attenuated at the base, np to 
S inches long (of which the petiole is sometimes 2£ inches) by 3-34 broad harsh with much short pubescence on both sides, primary 
veins very regular and prominent, and the transverse veinlets very prominent beneath, panicles terminal rather lax glanduloso-pubea* 
cent, bracts at the ramifications small oblongo-linear, calycine bracteoles linear shorter than the calyx and like it glanduloso-puhescent, 
calyx-segments linear equal or subequal, flowers 1 \ inches long deep violet-purple, tube scarcely contracted except at the very base 
glabrous outside, hairy within, stamens 4 the 2 middle ones much shorter, filaments and style hairy towards the base. 
Abundant about the head of the Sisparah ghat (Nilgiris), a very beautiful species; it is very rarely to be met with in flower, j 
1 J LATE CCV, 
STROBILANTHES SEXENNIS. (Nees.) A very large shrub up to 25-30 feet, old trunks up to 2-2£ feet in girth, the 
younger branches somewhat 4-angled and often glanduloso-pubescent, leaves lanceolate acuminate sessile and amplexicanl or decurrent j 
down a short petiole, coarsely serrate quite glabrous or slightly hairy on both sides, always densely lineolate above, up to 17 inches 
long by 5 broad, but often only 8-9 inches long, veins not so numerous or regular as in violaceus, transverse veinlets inconspicuous, panicles ! 
terminal, scarcely lax glandnloso-pnbescent as are the calyx bracts and bracteoles, bracts broad ovate, bracteoles linear lanceolate or 
apathulate equal In length to and broader than the narrow linear equal calycine-segments, flowers white, corol generally much carved j 
about 14 inch long, tube scarcely contracted a little hairy inside, stamens 4 monadelphous the two middle ones much smaller, anthers 
all rounded at the base, filaments and style slightly hairy, ovary glabrous, capsule glabrous oblong acuminated. Nees in DC , i. c, p- 
187. S. homotropus, Nees. I . e. S. argutus, Nees. 1. c. 188. S. cerinthoides, Nees. in Herb. Hook. 
Very common at Ootacamnnd and elsewhere on the Nilgiris at the higher elevations, also on the Pulneys, &c,, 5000-7000 feet^ 
and abundant at high ultitudes in Ceylon; it is the largest of all oar species, and in the Eookal shola on the Pnlneys it grows to be quite j 
a small tree with a hard woody trunk nearly 3 feet in girth. 
PLATE CCVI. 
STROBILANTHES GRACILIS. (Bedd.) A very large shrub, branches glabrous terete, leaves lanceolate acuminate serrate 
sessile, auricled at the base and omplexicaul densely lineolate but otherwise quite glabrous or with a few weak setm, up to 8-9 inches 
long by 2 inches broad, panicles terminal lax glabrous or slightly viscous, bracts very small caducous, bracteoles linear shorter than the 
calyx, calycine-lobes linear equal and with the bracteoles slightly glanduloso-pubescent or almost quite glabrous, flowers rather remote 
white tinged with lilac about 1 inch long, tube scarcely contracted, stamens 4 monadelphous the two inner a little shorter, filaments 
hairy, antlmrs sagittate at the base. Style slightly hairy, ovary glabrous, capsule ovoid glabrous pointed. Bedd. in Trans. Linn. 
Soe. Vol. XXV. not Anders. S. Beddomei, T. Ander. Joum. Lin. Soc. Vol. IX. p. 482. 
Anamallay mountains, 4000-5000 feet elevation, nearly allied to Sexennis. 
PLATE GCVII 
STROBILANTHES AnDERSONII. (Bedd.) A very large shrub up to 20 feet high. Stem terete hirsute, leaves sub- 
. , '“‘T 0,1 Mumi “ e up to 910 inches long by 5 breed, the pair often unequal and ou petioles of different lengths, 
tf u' r : S fr “ U “ 3r 2 ' 2i in0h “ l0ng • 4omra in 8hort “Wong dense heads, bracts large ovate obtnee ciliate 
* “fl ealyeme-segments all about equal linear lanceolate ciliate. Corol glabrous 
a^le " •“"* *"*• «*—«*■* 
Auemellay mountain, 6000 feet in moist woods, allied to the nest epeeiee but with larger Sowers. 
atUnuated^the H toh CA t LT fi ! l Ntra A slmih tMt ’ stema ,tri 8°“ “ g<»brous, leaves oval or ovate acuminate 
"h.” long „l .hth (0 ‘ Wll L 0h *• P6tt0,e ia *■*» inches) by 2-2J inches broad, spikes axillary 2-H 
crenate glabrous or slivhth clandulo * h 1 8uberect ova1 ’ b ^cts much imbricate large suborbicular or obovato-cuneat* 
glabrous or slightly glanduWhirsute, bracteoles and calycine segments narrow lanceolate all about equal and nearly or quite 1 
