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with very long white or brown often gland tipped hairs all subequal in length or the bract twice as long as the others and the caly- 
cine segments more or less unequal. Corol about 1 inch long whitish with a tinge of red, stamens 4 scarcely monadelphou3 included, 
the 2 middle ones a little shorter, style glabrous, ovary a little hairy at the apes. Anders, in. Thw. PI. 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 CCXIII. 
STROBILANTHES JEYPORENSIS. (Bedd.) A large shrub, branches obtusely 4-angled a little hairy above glabrous 
below, leaves submembrauaceous broadly ovate with a long acumination suddenly attenuated at the base crenate, densely lineolate above 
and furnished with a few setae, slightly pubescent below with longisli 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 
bracteoles and calyx glandnloso-pubescent and long subulato-acuminate, bracts lanceolate 3-nerved, bracteoles linear a little shorter 
than the calyx, calycine segments distinct to the base linear, flowers small, corol about h an inch long white, tube contracted only at the 
very base, stamens 2 monadelphous, filaments hairy, style and ovary glabrous, capsule smooth mucronate much shorter than the calyx. 
The Gudam hills near Golcondah (Vizagapatam district), 2500 feet elevation, also mountainous tracts in the Jeypore country 
PLATE CCXIV. 
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 CCXY. 
STROBILANTHES CONSANGUJNEUS. (Nees) A large shrub, stems somewhat 4-angled glabrous or a little hairy, leaver 
membranaceous or sub-membranaceous ovate acute or acuminate, suddenly attenuated at the base, prominently and very regularly 
veined, glabrous on both sides but densely lineolate, or hairy beneath, quite entire or more or less crenate, without the petiole 4-5 
inches long by 2|-3J inches broad, petioles up to 4 inches long the pair often very unequal, spikes axillary 3-4 inches long very 
various from simple and filiform to much branched, and from nearly glabrous to densely hirsute, flowers white or pale blue about f inch 
long, bracts ovato-lanceolate nerved glabrous or a little hairy or densely hirsute, bracteoles shorter than the calyx linear lauceolate, 
calyx cleft 4 down, segments linear-lanceolate acute, corol-tube contracted at the base, glabrous or puberulous outside, stamens 2 sub- 
monadelphous, filaments glabrous or a little hairy, style hairy, ovary hairy at the apex. Endopogon consaguineus, liypoleucus, and 
amomum, Nees. 1. c. p- 104. 
A very common species on the ghats of the Nilgiris and Pulneys and other mountainous parts of our Western ghats, from 
the foot up to 5000 feet. One variety common in the Bolumputty valley, has the spikes much paniculate and densely hirsute, the 
variety figured is the commonest form. 
PLATE CCXVI. 
S IROBILAXTHES NIGRESCENS. (T. Anders.) A shrub 4-5 feet, stems erect tetragonal, leaves lanceolate acuminate 
serrate 4-5 inches long by 1-1 £ broad glabrous on both sides but densely lineolate above, petioles 8-18 lines long. Spikes axillary and 
terminal hispid shorter to a little longer than the leaves, bracts lanceolate with a long attenuated point 3-nerved glanduloso-hispid a 
little longer than the calyx, bracteoles linear and with the calyx glanduloso-hispid, calyx cleft down about f-rd, segments acute, corol 
about 1 inch long pale purple, tube contracted at the base, lobes ciliate. Stamens 2 submonadelphous, filaments glabrous, style hairy, 
ovary glabrous. Anders. U c. p. 226. 
Ceylon, Ambagamwa district, 3000 feet elevation. 
PLATE CCXVII. 
