362 CVI. GESNERACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) (Barca. 
IX. BOSICA, Clarke. 
Undershrubs. Leaves alternate, petioled. Cymes much branched, 
axillary, lax-fld.; bracts small. Calyx small, 5-fid or -partite. Corolla 
small, deeply 5-fid, glabrous, widely gibbous at the base, obscurely 2-lipped; 
lobes subequal, obtuse, purple or white. Stamens 4, attached near the base 
of the corolla-tube, subequal, glabrous, filaments short; anthers 2-celled, 
not cohering in pairs; cells ellipsoid, subparallel, slits curved coalescent at 
the top. Ovary sessile, narrowly oblong; style as long as the ovary, 
glabrous, stigma punctiform; dise 0; placente deeply inflexed, nearly 
meeting, then recurved bearing ovules. Capsu/e shortly linear, straight. 
beaked by the erect style, loculicidal, and soon septicidal; placent: 
recurved, enrolling the seeds. Seeds very small, ellipsoid, smooth.—Species 
5, in Assam, Bhotan and N. Burma. 
1. B. filiformis, Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. t. 87; innovations 
nearly glabrous, leaves lanceolate acuminate at both ends mature glabrous, 
peduncles solitary long, cyme with capillary branches and pedicels nearly 
glabrous.—Rhynchotechum sp.?, Wall. Cat. 9079, in part. Chelone filiformis, 
Ham. ms. 
ASSAM ; near Goalpara, Hamilton, &c.  BnoTAN; in Upper Singfo everywhere, 
Griffith. Kuasta Mts.; Griffith. CACHAR; Keenan. 
Branches long, leafy, glabrous to the tip. Leaves 7 by 2 in., minutely dentate ; 
petiole j-1 in. Peduncles 2-4 in. ; bracts J, in. linear. Calyx yin. Corolla g in., 
purple. Capsule j in. 
2. B. Griffithii, Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. t. 86; innovations 
fulvous-silky, leaves lanceolate acuminate at both ends mature fulvous- 
villous beneath, peduncles short usually 2-3 fascicled, cyme much branched 
intricate—Rhynchotechum sp. ?, Wall. Cat. 9079, in part. Chelone rubicunda, 
Ham, ms. 
AssaM; Goalpara, Hamilton. 
Leaves 8 by 24 in., denticulate, mature glabrous above. Peduncles 1-2 in., 
clustered, or peduncle may be considered hardly any branched from the base; cyme 
branches divaricate and recurved.—Otherwise nearly as B, filiformis. 
3. B. fulva, Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. t. 85; innovations fulvous- 
woolly, leaves lanceolate acuminate at both ends fulvous-villous beneath, 
peduncles solitary elongate, bracts fulvous-tomentose.—Cyrtandracea n. 325, 
Griff. Itin. Notes, p. 190. 
AssAM; Masters. BHOTAN and MISHMET, alt. 4200 ft., near Chulleree, Griffith 
(Kew Distrib. n. 3844). 
Leaves 7 by 2 in., obscurely denticulate, mature glabrous above or fulvous- 
pubescent along the nerves. Peduncles 4-6 in., fulvous floccose; bracts $-} in. 
persistent ; pedicels floccose. Flowers and capsules nearly as of B. filiformis. 
4. B. hirsuta, Clarke ; very shaggy, leaves wide-lanceolate acuminate 
at both ends densely fulvous-shaggy above, peduncles solitary long, cymes 
tulvous-hirsute. 
UrPkR Assam ?; on the Soondra bank. 
Branches thick, shaggy with yellow hair 4-4 in. long, dense with leaves. Leaves 
7 by 24 in., obscurely denticulate, shaggy above with hairs 1 in. long from tubercular 
bases, villous beneath; petiole j in. Peduncles 2—4 in.; bracts } in, elliptic or 
oblong ; cymes as though compound umbels. Sepals ¢ in. linear, shaggy. Corolla 
not seen, Capsule } in., minutely hairy, 4-valved. 
