eight costal nerves proceeding from the midrib, the base attenuated 
into a short petiole, margins crenate; upper branches sessile, cordate, 
amplexicaul toothed or serrated. Spikes axillary and terminal, rather 
loose, opposite, unequal, the one being four or five inches long, the 
other only three or three and a half; the whole covered with a viscid 
pubescence; bracts orbicular and wedge-shaped at the base. Flowers 
purplish. Calyx of five deep-coloured spatula-shaped segments. 
Corolla funnel-shaped ; tube yellowish at the base, at first erect, then 
suddenly deflected ; limb unequal, five-lobed, lobes blunt or emargi- 
nate, upper lobe slightly reflected. Stamens four, didyuamous; fila¬ 
ments declined, furnished with hairs at the base on one side only; the 
two longer reaching to the mouth of the corolla; anthers two-celled. 
Style simple, rather longer than the stamens; stigma awl-shaped. 
Ovary slightly quadrangular, oblong, two-celled; four-seeded. 
Popular AND Geographical Notice. The species of the genus 
Strobilanthes are mostly shrubby, rarely herbaceous plants, and natives 
of tropical Asia: the present species was first gathered by Francis de 
Silva in Pundua, and afterwards by Dr. Wallich, in Nepal, in 1823. 
It bears considerable resemblance to Strobilanthes plumosa, Strobi¬ 
lanthes auriculata, and amplectens, from all which it is distinguished 
however at a glance, by its smoothness, its broader leaves and looser 
spikes of flowers. There is a variety (/5.) argentea, characterised by 
having the spikes smaller, more pubescent and viscid, the corolla 
nearly half an inch longer, and more of a bluish colour. It is worthy 
of notice that the disparity in the size of each pair of opposite leaves, 
exists likewise in the spikes of the flowers, one of which is uniformly 
smaller than the opposite. 
Introduction; Where grown; Culture. Sent by Francis de 
Silva to the Botanic Garden, Calcutta, whence it was sent by Dr. 
Wallich, in 1826, to the Horticultural Society of England. 
It requires the stove, where it flowers in the end of winter, display¬ 
ing several spikes, on each of which two flowers only are found ex¬ 
panded at one time. It may be advisable to put it for some period of 
the year, in the greenhouse, that it may enjoy a season of repose, which 
is as necessary for plants as animals, and for those of a hot country, 
as much as for those of a cold climate. (See Dr. Findley’s Theory 
of Horticulture, p. 389—44. 
Derivation of the Names. 
Strobilanthes, from ’ErpotiXoQ, strobilos, a cone; and avOog antlios, a flower, 
tlie imexpanded spikes resembling a cone. Sabiniana, in compliment to 
Joseph Sabine, Esq. 
Synonemes. 
Strobilanthes Sabiniana. Nees Von Esenbeck; in Wallich s Plant® Asiatic. 
Rariores, Vol. Ill, p. 86. Botanical Magazine, t. 3517. 
Ruellia Sabiniana. Bindley: in Botanical Register, t. 1238. 
