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Capsula teres, acuta, stylo terminata, 1} poll. longa, minute 
pubescens. 
Siam, Bangtaphan, in recesses of the rock, Buddhists’ Cave 
(Dr. Keith). 
Lankawi (Curtis, n. 2570). 
I have had this under cultivation for some time. The plant 
lives only till it has flowered, and then dies down, but is easily 
reproduced by seeds. It is usually very small, but may attain 
a height of 4 inches. The flowers are exactly the colour of 
those of a violet, and from a front view quite suggest its 
appearance. The corolla is narrowly tubular at the base and 
somewhat abruptly bent, where it dilates into a trumpet shape. 
The lobes are most unequal, violet, with a yellow eye, and 
darker streaks radiating from it. The eye is formed by a large 
number of curiously-shaped trichomes, narrow at the base, then 
gradually swelling out in the middle, and tupering again to the 
end, where they terminate in a glandular body. The stamens 
are attached at the mouth of the corolla tube, so that they 
project beyond it. The anthers have the connective carried 
along the back in the form of a rounded keel, there is a black 
spot on each of the loculi; the base of the anther is furnished 
with white hairs. 
The Lankawi specimens are much more drawn up than those 
I have under cultivation in Singapore, and more branched. 
CHIRITA MOLLISSIMA, Sp. NOv. 
Subacaulis. Folia congesta, lanceolata, acuta, minute obscure 
serrata, argenteo-tomentosa, 6-8 poll. longa, 14-2 poll. lata. 
Flores pedicellati, nutantes, axillares, pauce, speccose, pedicellis 
pollicaribus crassiusculis lanatis. Sepala lanceolata, acuminata, 
sequalia, 4 poll. longa, tomentosa. Corolla cnfundibuliformis 
ultra pollicaris, oblonga, obtusa, lobis superioribus breviusculis 
rotundatis violaceis, inferioribus latioribus medio longiore 
tubo et fauce albo, pilis glandulosis supra antheras sitis. 
Stamina 2, filamentis latis curvis, antheris latis crassis. 
Pistillum pubescens, smaragdinum, paullo exsertum, ovario 
cylindrico in stylum attenuato; stigma bilobum, pubes- 
cens, decurvum. Capsula pollicaris, lata, crassa, glabra, vel 
pubescens. 
Siam, Pungah (Curtis, n. 2944). 
Under the same number, I have from Mr. Curtis a somewhat 
