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equalling the corol, corol dull yellowish red glabrous outside and within except a small tuft of hair, the tube only contracted at its very 
base, stamens 4 monadelphous slightly exserted, the two middle ones a little shorter, filaments glabrous, ovary and style glabrous. Nees 
DC. 1. c. p. 186. S. coloratus, Nees. 1. c. 
Ceylon, central provinces, at 7000 feet elevation. 
PLATE CCIX. 
STROBILANTHES AURICULATUS. (Nees.) A much branched shrub, branches 4-angled slightly scabrous towards the 
apex, leaves elliptic acuminate serrate with the base cuneiform auricled and amplexicaul, 4-7 inches long by l|-2 inches broad, 
slightly hirsute on both sides. Spikes axillary and terminal 1-4 inches long narrow linear, the peduncles tetragonal, bracts densely 
imbricate orbicular cuspidato-mucronate, hirsute or glanduloso-hirsute, bracteoles none. Calycine segments somewhat unequal linear 
obtuse glanduloso-hirsute, flowers large f to 1 inch pale blue, tube much contracted at its base, stamens 4 slightly monadelphous the 
2 inner ones shorter, filaments hairy. Nees l. c. p. 191. 
Common about the Jubbulpore and Nagpore country, but I have never seen it further south, 
in gardens. 
PLATE CCX. 
Common in a cultivated state 
STROBILANTHES CILIATUS. (Nees.) A small shrub, branches terete or 4-sided fimbriate at the joints, leaves elliptic 
acuminate attenuated into the petiole serrate densely lineolate above and with a few setae on the costa and veins, lineolate and glabrous 
below subcoriaceous, 6-7 inches long by 2 broad. Spikes axillary 2-4 inches long generally simple with the peduncle bracteate jointed 
and refract below the middle, sometimes somewhat branched and leafy, flower heads small narrow oblong, flowers small white spotted 
with lilac about 1 iuch long, bracts ovate or nearly orbicular pointed cucullate much imbricate lineolate, bracteoles a little smaller 
than the calyx linear-lanceolate, calycine lobes equal or subequal linear-lanceolate glabrous or with a few hairs, corol with a very narrow 
tube below suddenly campanulate below the lobes very slightly hairy inside^ lobes rounded, stamens 4 monadelphous the two inner 
a little shorter, filaments hairy below glabrous above, anthers .purple, ovary and style glabrous. Nees l. c. p. 183 Wight leones 
tab. 1517. Strobilanthes Warreensis, Dale, in Hook. Journ. of Bot, ii. 341. 
This is found about all our ghats from the very foot up to about 4000 feet, and it flowers I believe every year. I have re¬ 
figured this although Dr. Wight published a drawing, as his is not characteristic and scarcely to be recognized. 
PLATE CCXI. 
STROBILANTHES BARBATUS. (Nees.) A large glabrous shrub often up to 12-15 feet, with numerous exposed roots 
from the lower part of the stem, branches 4-sided often completely and very broadly winged, sometimes quite naked, leaves lanceolate, 
acute or acuminate crenate or subentire coriaceous glabrous but densely lineolate on both sides, somewhat shining above paler beneath, 
6-10 inches long by 2J-4 broad, petioles naked or winged 1-lJ inches long, spikes axillary and terminal 1-2 inches long often leafy 
at the base, bracts densely imbricate rhombeo-cuneate long cuspidato-acuminate lineolate and coarsely ciliate but otherwise glabrous 
bracteoles similar to the bracts but a little smaller and narrower, flowers small, calyx 5-cleft to the middle the segments acuminate, 
corol white about 1 inch long the tube much contracted at the base and suddenly campanulate just below tho lobes, lobes long ciliate 
and very hairy within with white hairs, stamens 4 submonadelphous exserted, the middle 2 a little shorter, filaments hairy, sometimes 
the rudiment of a fifth stamen is present, ovary and style glabrous. Nees. 1. c. 179. Strobilanthes tetrapterus, Dalz, in Hook- 
Journ. of Bot. 1850. Vol. II. p. 342. 
One of the commonest species on our moist mountains up to 3000 feet elevation, from Canara down to Cape Comorin, form¬ 
ing often the chief undergrowth ; in the Anamallays it covers miles of country ; it only flowers about every 7th year, and then dies down . 
winged and wingless forms are to be found on the same plant. 
PLATE CCXIL 
STROBILANTHES CAUDATUS. (T. Anders.) A shrub 4-5 feet, stems glabrous below hirsute towards the apex ; leaves 
lanceolate or linear-lanceolate with a very long caudate acumination, lineolate on both sides, furnished above with a few distant seta?, 
slightly hairy on the veins beneath, entire or obscurely crenate, 4-7 inches long by 1-1| broad, petioles 2-8 lines long, spikes axillary 
simple or branched, heads small subglobose 3-6 flowered, bracts bracteoles and calycine segments linear all deusely villous and ciliate 
