Chirita.] CVI. GESNERACE®. (C. B. Clarke.) 361 
Peduncles (their free portion) 0-2 in., hispidulous. Sepals } in., sublinear, patently 
hairy. Corolla scarcely 3 in. ; tube slender, nearly white, mouth pale blue or some- 
what rose. Stigma distinctly bifid. Capsule 1-3 in. 
VAR. unifolia; stem 4-1 in., with one leaf at the top and $-J flowers. Chirita 
sp. n. 31, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f.  T.—Khasia Mts., alt. 500 ft., on the river bank near 
Terrya Ghaut, J. D. H. Moulmein; Thoungyne, Lobó.—Extremely unlike the 
ordinary form of C. hamosa, but except in its minute size no distinction cau be found. 
The single leaf is perhaps a persistent cotyledon, carried up as in some other species of 
the Order ; and the plant may be specifically distinct. 
VII. PLATYSTEMMA, Wail. 
A small. slender herb. Zeaf 1 (a persistent cotyledon ?) sessile, orbicular- 
cordate, membranous. hairy. Peduncle from the leaf-axil, slender, few-fid. ; 
bracts very small, sublinear. Calyx wide-campanulate, deeply 5-fid. 
Corolla violet, subrotate, deeply 2-lipped; lips wide-spreading, upper 
shortly bifid, lower deeply 3-lobed; lobes all wide-oblong, obtuse. Stamens 
4 perfect, filaments short, curved ; anthers cohering by their tips, 2-celled ; 
cells round, divaricate, early confluent, dehiscing by a single short slit. 
Ovary ovoid; dise annular; style linear, much longer than the ovary, 
stigma small; placente deeply intruded, then bifid, branches recurved, 
bearing ovules on their margins on both faces. Capsule narrowly oblong, 
nearly as in Didymocarpis. 
P. violoides, Wall. Cat. 4410, and Pl. As. Rar. ii. 42, t. 151; Royle 
Ill 294, t. 71, fig. 1; DO. Prodr. ix. 279; Wight Ill. t. 159 bis, fig. 10. 
P. majus, Wail. Cat. 4411, and Pl. As. Rar. ii. 42, in obs. 
TEMPERATE W. HIMALAYA, alt. 6-9000 ft.; from Nepal, Wallich, to Simla, 
Strachey & Winterbottom. : " 
Stem 24-5 in., pubescent. Leaf 14-23 in., subacute, coarsely serrate, hairy above, 
glabrous beneath, pubescent on the nerves, Péduncle }-1} in., 1-11-fld.; bracts 4 iu., 
deciduous; cyme usually tricbotomous, lateral branches 3-fid.; pedicels O-j in. 
Sepals 4, in., subovate, puberulous. Corolla j in., lips of equal length. Capsule only 
known from Royle’s figure. 
VIII. CHAMPIONIA, Gard. 
A low, perennial, erect, hairy herb. Leaves opposite, subequal, petioled. 
Peduncles Plender ; braets small eymes lax; flowers white. Sepals 5, small, 
narrow. Corolla-tube short; limb spreading, subequally 4-lobed. Stamens 
4 perfect, filaments short, thick; anther-cells ellipsoid, nearly parallel, slits 
confluent at their apex. Ovary sessile, oblong; disc 0; style linear, stigma 
subcapitate; placentæ of two plane plates bearing ovules on both faces. 
Capsule oblong, acute, loculicidally 2-valved, valves soon 2-partite ; placentze 
in fruit hardly altered. Seeds minute, ellipsoid, subacute at each end, 
smooth, minutely striate and reticulated. 
C. reticulata, Garda. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 485 ; leaves oblong 
subentire, nerves slender close together. 
CEYLON, alt. 3000 ft., frequent. . 
Stem 2-6 in., undivided, duskily villous upwards. Leaves 4 by 1} in, pager or 
shortly acute, base cuneate, thinly strigose above, dusky-villous on the ial eS in ? 
petiole j in. Peduneles 2-3 in., 3-10-fid., hairy; bracts j in., linear ; pedis ilr M 
slender. Sepals j,in. linear, hairy. Corolla-tube 1, mn. 5 lobes 4 in., wide y 0> eng, 
glabrous. Ovary and style glabrous. Capsule 4 by js in.; 
the valves, not recurved, 
placente narrower than 
