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ACANTHACEiE. 
STROBILANTHES CUSPIDATUS. (Benth.) A large shrub, branches lanate when young glabrous in age, terete oi 
obscurely 4-angled, leaves ovate acuminate a little attenuated at the base irregularly crenate, in age glabrous above or with a few hairs 
(when young densely lanate) densely lanate beneath, without the petiole 3-4 inches long by 1 \-2 inches broad, prominently parallel-veined, 
petioles 1-If inches long. Spikesaxillary often leafy glanduloso-hispid, bracts lanceolate acuminate or cuspidate, bracteoles linear 
lanceolate as long ns the calyx, calyx cleft down half-way, segments acute and glanduloso-hirsute as are the bracts and bracteoles, corol 
about 1 inch long puberulous outside, tube very narrow at the base, stamens 2, filaments and style and apex of ovary hairy. Benth, 
in Linn. xxiv. 646. 
Nilgiris, on the Seegoor ghat. 
PLATE CCXXI. 
STROBILANTHES WALKER!. (Nees.) Shrubby 2-5 feet high, stems subglabrous tetragonal above, leaves elliptic to 
oval or suborbicular acuminate, acute at the base undulato-crenulate densely lineolate above and rather hairy and scabrous on both 
sides submerabranaceous, without the petiole about 4 inches long by 2 broad, petioles often unequal up to 1 i or 2 inches long. Spikes 
axillary solitary or twin simple or trifid 1-2 inches long, the peduncle sulcato-striate bracteate and jointed, beads 1-3 flowered about 
^ an inch long, bracts oval acute bullato-rugose slightly hairy and ciliate, bracteoles linear shorter than the calyx, calyx cleft to nearly 
the base, segments linear-lanceolate ciliate, corol about £ inch long white or pale purple, tube scarcely contracted at the base, stamens 4 
all equal exserted submonadelphous, filaments and style glabrous. Nees. 1. c. 181. 
Ceylon, central provinces, 4000-7000 feet. 
PLATE CCXXII, 
STROBILANTHES LAXUS. (T. Anders.) Shrubby 4-6 feet, stems terete glabrous, leaves ovate acuminate cordate serrate 
subscabrous on both sides glandular beneath, without the petiole up to 6 inches long and 2% broad, petioles up to 2J inches long. 
Spikes solitary or twin strobiliform axillary many-flowered often branched rather lax, 1-5 inches long, bracts t inch long rotundato* 
ovate ciliate and furnished with waxy dots as are the bracteoles and calyx, bracteoles lanceolate, ciliate shorter than the calyx, calys 
cleft to nearly the base, segments lanceolate acute equal or subequal ciliate broader than the bracteoles, corol f inch long yellowish red, 
purple at the base, stamens 4 monadelphous of equal length exserted, filaments and style glabrous. Anders, in. Tliw . I , c. p. 228, 
Ceylon, Hantani, 4000 feet elevation. 
PLATE CCXXIII. 
STROBILANTHES ZEYLANICUS. (Anders.) Shrubby, 3-5 feet high, stems erect 4 -angled sulcate subglabrous, leaves 
elliptic to oval or ovate acuminate scabroso-serrate coriaceous scabrous on both sides particularly on the prominent veins and densely 
lineolate above, 5-10 inches long by 2|-4 broad, petioles 1-1 £ inches long. Spikes strobiliform pedunculate axillary shorter than the 
leaves or elongated and leaf-bearing, bracts foliaceous large ovate with a long gradual acumination, lineolate, the margin scabrous, 
bracteoles lanceolate a little larger than the calycine lobes, calyx cleft down, flowers 1|- inches long, hairy outside, tube contracted at 
the base, stamens 4 submonadelphous the two middle ones much shorter, filaments hairy, style and ovary glabrous. Anders• l, c, 227. 
Strobilanthes callosus, Nees. partim. 
Ceylon, Ambagamwa district and Kokool corie, 2000 feet elevation. 
PLATE CCXXIV. 
STROBILANTHES ADENOPHORUS. (Nees.) Shrubby 3-4 feet. Stems terete or slightly 4-sided lineolate, leaves 
narrow-lanceolate acuminate, much attenuated at the base and often decurrent on the petiole lineolate on both sides but otherwise 
glabrous, eutire or slightly scollop-toothed, 4-5 inches long by 1 inch broad, submembranaceous paler beneath, primary veins distant 
about 4 on each side inconspicuous below, spikes axillary and terminal solitary, peduncles thickened towards the apex, 1-lf inches long 
1-2 jointed and with deciduous bracts at the joints, flower-heads oblong 1-11 inches long, bracts, bracteoles and calyx lineolate but 
otherwise quite glabrous, bracts large obovate, bracteoles narrow-ligulate much shorter than the calyx, calyx cleft to nearly the middle, 
segmeuts acute 2 of them often more or less united, corol 1 inch long the tube funnel-shaped contracted only at its base glabrous out* 
