Ok. Garg ji, Sorry for the mix-up in a hurry.. You can use the piece of information on Strobilanthes pentstemonoides (Nees) T. Anderson under the relevant thread..
Regarding *Strobilanthes attenuata* it is closely related to *Strobilanthes extensa*, *S. lachenensis*, *S. subnudata* and *S. spicata* characterized by terminal spicate inflorescence and calyx with a lengthened median lobe. All species have corollas gently curved, gradually expanding from base and with strangely indeterminate indumentum and capsules glandular pubescent at least at the tip. The other characters include that leaves equal or slightly unequal, sessile or long decurrent and pseudo-petiolate or petiolate, serrate/dentate, green on both surfaces; inflorescence usually terminal, with flowers in pairs on lax spikes, sometimes the spikes turn branched and paniculate; bracts intergrading with upper leaves, the lower most usually sessile and ovate, the upper oblong or elliptic, usually deciduous as the flowers fall; bracteoles distinct from bracts; calyx glandular pilose, the median lobe accrescent and sub spathulate in fruit; fertile stamens 4; seeds pilose and exareolate. *Strobilanthes attenuata* (Nees) Nees in DC., Prodr. 11:193. 1847.* Type*: Probably from India, *Wallich* 2346 (lecto K-W: Wood, 1994a). *Ruellia attenuata* Nees in Wall., Pl. Asiat. Rar. 3: 83. 1832 *p.p*.; J.R.I.Wood in Edinb. Jour. Bot. 51(2): 221, 230. 1994; *Pteracanthus attenuatus* (Nees) Bremek. in Verh. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch. Afd. Natuurk., Tweede Sect. 2, 45(1): 199. 1944. *Type*: as for *Strobilanthes attenuata* (Nees) Nees *Strobilanthes alata* Nees in DC., Prodr. 11: 194. 1847. *Type*: India, Simla *Lady Dalhousie* (iso. K, E: Wood, 1994a), nom. Illegit., non Blume (1826). *Strobilanthes reflexa* Nees in DC., Prodr. 11: 194. 1847; *Pteracanthus reflexus* (Nees) Bremek. in Verh. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch. Afd. Natuurk., Tweede Sect. 2, 45(1): 199. 1944. *Type*: India, *Royle* (LIV, n.v.). *Strobilanthes newii* Bedd. ex C.B. Clarke in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 464. 1884; Gamble, Fl. Madras: 1043. 1924 (repr. ed. 2: 731. 1957); P. Venu, *Strobilanthes* Penin. India: 157 & t. 38 (p. 158) (illeg. nom.).-*Meckenzia newii* (Beddome ex C.B. Clarke) Bremek. in Verh. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch. Afd. Natuurk., Tweede Sect. 2, 45(1): 183. 1944. Types: India, Karnataka, Western Mysore, Manjeerabad, *Beddome s.n. *(BM); *Beddome *40 & 106 (MH!); *Strobilanthes urticifolia* Wall. ex O. Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 499. 1891. *Pteracanthus urticifolius* (Wall. ex O. Kuntze) Bremek. in Verh. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch. Afd. Natuurk., Tweede Sect. 2, 45(1): 199. 1944. *Type*: *Wallich* 2346 (iso. K-W). *Strobilanthes **extensus *Bedd., Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient.: 47. t. 202. 1868-1874, non Nees 1847. Small shrubs, erect, ca 1 m high, glandular hairy; branches quadrangular, puberulous, glandular-hairy above, glabrescent below. Leaves in pairs unequal, ovate, ca 12.5 x 7.5 cm, rounded or cordate at base, prominently serrate at margin, acute at tip, scabrous-hispid above, pubescent beneath, distinctly lineolate on both surfaces; petioles length variable, ca 1 cm long, winged upward (upper leaves sessile); secondary nerves 7-8 pairs. Inflorescences terminal much interrupted spikes, early panicled, hairy, 15-25 cm long; flowers nearly all opposite, distant; flower buds glandular hairy at tip; bracts small, linear-oblong, ca 6 mm long, smaller than calyx lobes, early caducous; bracteoles linear, much smaller than calyx, caducous, subscarious, ciliate, glandular-hairy. Calyx with a small tube, deeply divided; lobes unequal, linear, ca 1.2 cm long, one of them longer than others, rounded or obtuse at apex, ciliate on the margin, glandular-hairy. Corolla curved, deep purple, tubular-ventricose, ca 3 cm long; tube a little contracted at base, much smaller than ventricose portion, hardly longer than the calyx; ventricose portion much inflated, 2 hairy lines within; curved above, 5-lobed; lobes orbicular and veined. Stamens 4; sheath extending to the middle of ventricose portion, glabrous/slightly hairy; filaments glabrous; inner two shorter, crossing the longer filaments. Ovary glandular, puberulous at apex; style ca 2.6 cm long, glabrous or slightly hairy below. Capsules narrowly elliptic, ca 1.5 cm long, glandular-pubescent, 4-seeded; seeds ovate, ca 4 mm, hairy with a small areole. *Fl. & Fr.*: Less known about flowering period or periodicity. *Habitat**: *. W. Temperate Himalaya, 3500 m, common; from Kashmir to Kumaon, In grassland on mountainous slopes, 2500 m Tibet; also grow in gardens as cultivated species in Karnataka *Distrib.*: *World*: Afganistan, China, India, Nepal, North Pakistan and Tibet. *Note*: *Wallich *2345 cited by Nees was excluded by Wood *(l.c.)*. as it is *Echinacanthus attenuates* Nees. Dr. Ashwini I wish you might be able to confirm and fix the species identity based on the above details.If you have problems anywhere regarding the mismatch of description, you may reply to me again. Regards *DINESH ALBERTSON, W.* Research Scientist 'B' Centre of Exellence C.E.M.D.E. University of Delhi Delhi - 110 007. 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