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•within, calyx segments linear equal a little larger than the linear bracteoles, all pubescent outside glabrous within, corol 16-17 lines loner 
obliquely infundibuliforin suddenly contracted at the base into a very narrow curved tube 3 line3 long, pubescent outside and in a 
broad line down the centre within, stamens 2, filaments very hairy, style long nearly glabrous, stigma oblique, ovary hairy at the apex. 
T. Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. ix. Ao. 40 p. 466. 
Very common about Sisparah on the west side of the Nilgiris, 4-5500 feet elevation, and I have specimens from other localities 
on our western mountains ; it is very rarely to be found in flower, as it apparently only flowers on reaching maturity (6 or 7 years 
growth), and then dies ; it flowered in October 1869. 
PLATE No. CXCVIII. 
StROBILANTHES PANICULATUS. (T, And.) A rather delicate shrub 5-6 feet high, stem erect terete glabrous, leaves 
membranaceous lanceolate with a long acumination, the margin subentire or obscurely crenated glabrous on both sides but very densely 
lineolate over all the lamina and veins, 4-6| inches long by f-14 inches broad, petioles 4-10 lines long, panicles terminal elongate linear 
oblong lax at length filiform softly puberulous and also more or less furnished with long white shining simple or very minutely glandu¬ 
lar hairs, brauchlets opposite short simple or branched furnished with a pair of bracts at the base, the lower bracts about 1 inch long 
linear glabrous but lineolate, the upper gradually smaller and more ovate softly puberulous and furnished with white glandular hairs, 
flowers opposite the pedicels filiform hairy and with a pair of bracts at the base (1 to each pedicel), bracteoles generally none rarely 
present and very minute, calyx cleft to nearly the base into 5 linear subulate hairy segments, 4 equal the 5th much longer (6 lines in 
length), corol pink 14 inch long subinfundibuliform and rather curved very finely hairy on the outside, and within furnished with lougish 
hairs down the centre very membranaceous, lobes short rounded rather emarginate, stamens 4 on a very long thin tube, one pair much 
shorter, stigma 2-cleft 1 division very short the other elongate. Anders. Journ. of the Linn. Soc. vol. ix. Ao. 40 p. 4S3 ? S. rubicuu- 
dus, And. in An. II. Zey. p. 229 (not Nees .) 
Wynaad and Coorg, 2000-3000 feet elevation, common; a very beautiful species. Specimens sent to Dr. Anderson were referred 
by him to his Ceylon paniculatus, which I have not seen, but my plant differs much from his description; if distinct it may be called S. 
Wynadensis, under which name I originally distributed specimens. 
PLATE No. CXCIX. 
STROBILANTHES JBoLUMPATTIANUS. (Bedd.) A large shrub up to 15 feet high, branches 4-sided more or less 
scabrous, leaves broad lanceolate or ovate acuminate shortly attenuated into the petiole serrate, in age very sparingly hairy on the 
costa veins and veinlets, on both sides the hairs large shining white and conspicuous (when young much more densely hairy) lineolate 
above, pruinoso-dotted beneath, primary veins 6-7 on each side, 5-14 inches long by 2^-5 broad, petioles more or less hairy, spikes 
axillary or terminal or from the old axils globose or oblong, 2-4 inches long by nearly as broad, bracts large densely imbricate orbicular 
coarsely serrate about 1| inch each way, more or less hairy on both sides, and more or less ciliate prominently veined, bracteoles 2 linear 
lanceolate ciliate and sparingly hairy, calyx about as long as the bracteoles cleft to almost the base, segments much imbricate veined and 
prominently costate equal linear-lanceolate ciliate and hairy, corol eampanulate slightly exceeding the bracts, brown in color glabrous or 
subglabrous, lobes entire, stamens 4, filaments thick equal in length joined into a short tube at the base, style rather short, stigma 
oblique, capsule oblongo-ovate just equalling the calyx glabrous or (under the lens) very minutely puberulous. 
I have only found this splendid species on the Bolamputty hills near Coimbatore in moist forests above the Mini kolam, 
4500-7000 feet elevation ; it flowers every year. 
PLATE No. CC. 
