Chirita.] CVI. GESNERACES. (C. B. Clarke.) 359 
purple with yellow lines within. Ovary glabrous; style minutely pubescent, stigma 
unilateral deeply bifid. Capsule 4 in. and upwards.— The oniy species of Chirita in 
which the bracts are much /ess hairy than the calyx. 
11. C. Clarkei, Hook. f.; almost stemless, leaves ovate or elliptic 
pubescent on both surfaces, calyx divided nearly to the base dusky villous, 
ovary dusky pubescent.—Chirita sp. n. 27, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. T. 
SIKKIM ; Lachen, alt. 7-8000 ft., J. D. H. 
Radical leaves 4} by 3 in., shortly acute, base obtuse, crenate-serrate ; petiole 
14-4 in. Peduneles 4 in., upwards (as the whole inflorescence) with many spreading 
zlandular brown hairs ; bracts 4 in., oblong ; pedicels 3-1, 4-1 in. Calyx scarcely 
3 in., segments wide-lanceolate. Corolla (not expanded) of Chirita, glandular-villous 
without. Stigma subpeltate. Capsule elongate linear.—Seems near C. urticefolia, 
differing in the smaller calyx and indumentum. 
12. ©. Hookeri, Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. t. 70; leaves elliptic 
acute hairy on both surfaces, peduncles 5~-1-fld., bracts villous, calyx large 
densely hirsute.—Chirita sp. n. 22, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. 
UPPER Assam; Mishmee Hills, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3826). Kuasta 
Mrs., Griffith. . 
Resembling generally C. urticefolia.  Peduncles villous; bracts 1 in., ovate- 
oblong, herbaceous ; pedicels 4-3 in., villous. Calyx $ in.; lobes j in., triangular- 
lanceolate. Corolla nearly as of C. urticefolia; ex Griffith “pale blue the lower 
lip with 2 yellow lines.—Dr. King thinks this may be only a var. of C. urticefolia, 
the numerous examples of which are however very constant in the comparative glab- 
rousness of their bracts. 
13. C. acuminata, Br. in Benn. Pl. Jav. Rar. 117 ; leaves elliptic or 
ovate acuminate hairy on both surfaces, peduncles many-fid., bracts oblong 
villous, calyx divided hardly half-way down rusty villous. Clarke Comm. 
d Cyrt. Beng. t. 81, not of A. DC. Incarvillea oblongifolia, Roxb. FV. 
Ind. iii. 113. Calosacme acuminata, Wall. Cat. 802. Babactes oblongi- 
folia, DC. Prodr. ix. 260. ZEschynanthus acuminata, G. Don Gen. Syst. 
iv. 657.— Chirita sp. n. 10, Herb. D. Or. H. f. & T. 
KnuasrA Mrs., AssAM, MrsuHMkE and CurrrAcoNG Hirrs, alt. 500-3500 ft., 
common. . 
Stem 2-6 ft., sometimes frutescent, closely villous upwards. Leaves opposito, 
subequal, 8 by 3% in. (sometimes larger often much smaller), closely serralate ; petiole 
i-3 i.  Peduncles 1-24 in., villous, laxly dichotomous ; bracts and bracteo es 4-4} in. ; 
pedicels $ in. Calyx } in. ; lobes scarcely 4 in., ovate, acute. Corolla 11 in., tubul ar 
ventricose, yellowish-white (or fide Roxburgh somewhat marked with red), nearly 
glabrous. Fertile filaments dilated, minutely pilose. Ovary and style hairy ; stigma 
subpeltate, oblique, notched on one side, ultimately oblong bifid. - Capsule 2-24 y 
$ in. Seeds broadly ellipsoid, umbonate at each end, obscurely ribbed and minutely 
reticulated. 
14. C. brevipes, Clarke ; nearly stemless, densely fulvous hairy, leaves 
ovate or elliptic acute, peduncles short 1-2-fld., calyx 5-fid half-way gown 
lobes lanceolate. C. speciosa var. a, Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. t. 79, no 
of Kurz.—Chirita sp. n. 21, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. 
Kuasia Mrs., alt. 1500-4000 ft. ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3828), &c. 
Rhizome short, creeping with crowded nodes, very hairy. rated sien 
crowded, attaining 10 by 5 in., serrate; petiole up to 8 in. Pedune m a 
bracts à in, oblong, densely villous; pedicels j-14 in. Calyx Pm o 1 ` m 
Corolla nearly 2 in., minutely pubescent without (probably white). Y uan ha very 
woody, erect on the rigid thickened pedicel.— Kurz's C. speciosa from Yunan has very 
