368 CVI. GESNERACEX, (C. B. Clarke.) [Jerdonia. 
Seapes slender, few-fld.; bracts small. Sepals 5, lanceolate. Corolla pale 
lilac with red lines ; tube elongate, swollen upwards ; limb oblique, 2-lipped; 
lobes 5, ovate, obtuse, nearly equal. Stamens 4 perfect; filaments short, 
dilated upwards, 2 spurred; anthers connivent, cohering by their apices, 
2-celled ; cells ellipsoid, divergent at base, early divaricate and confluent. 
Ovary ovoid; disc annular; style linear, stigma small scarcely 2-lobed; 
placentz 2-partite into 2 flat plates bearing ovules on both faces. 
Capsule broadly ovoid, acute, loculicidally 2-valved; placentz scarcely 
altered in fruit. Seeds funicled, ellipsoid, subumbonate at the apex, smooth, 
testa striate coarsely reticulate. 
J. indica, Wight Ic. t. 1352, and Ill. t. 159 bis, fig. 2; Bot. Mag. 
t. 5814. 
S. Deccan PENINSULA; Nilgherry and Anamally Hills, and Bolimputty near 
Coimbatore, Wight. ; 
Stem 2 in., thick, creeping, upwards (with the innovations) rufous-hirsute or 
woolly. Leaves alternate, dense, 23 by 2 in., obtuse at both ends, entire, rufous-ciliate 
on the margin, mature glabrate above, rusty puberulous on the nerves beneath ; petiole 
2-4 in. Scapes 2—4 in., rufous-pilose ; bracts 7, in., sublinear; pedicels b in., n 
fruit somewhat thickened upwards. Sepals jj in.. rusty puberulous. Corolla 2 in. ; 
lobes jin. diam. Filaments sparsely pilose. Ovary and style glabrous. Capsule 
4 in. long and broad. 
XVIII]. LEPTOBŒA, Benth. 
Shrubs. Leaves opposite, often crowded. Peduncles filiform, lax, few- 
fld.; bracts small, linear; pedicels capillary. Calyx small, 5-fid. Corolla 
small, campanulate, slightly gibbous at the base, white; limb obscurely 
2-lipped; lobes 5, subequal, round. Stamens 4 perfect, included ; anther- 
cells ellipsoid, divergent at the base; ultimately conflueut at the apex 
Ovary sessile, ellipsoid; disc 0; style linear, stigma small subcapitate ; 
placenta: deeply intruded, of 2 plates, bearing ovules on both faces. Capsule 
inear or oblong, septicidally 2-valved; margins of the valves inflexed 
bearing the placentze, valves soon or late 2-partite. Seeds minute, ellipsoid, 
smooth.—Species 2, in N. and E. Bengal. 
l. E. multiflora, Gamble Darjeeling List, 58; leaves elliptic acum- 
nate at both ends pubescent, capsule 3 in. linear 2-valved late or scarcely at 
all 4-valved. Championia multiflora, Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. t. 68.— 
Cyrtandracea n. 100, Griff. Itin. Notes, p. 107. 
Sixxrm and Buoran, alt. 3000 ft., frequent; Grifith, J. D. H.,&c. ASSAM; 
Griffith. Kuasta Mrs.; alt. 2000 ft., frequent. 
A shrub, 2-6 ft. Leaves attaining 4 by 14 in., minutely crenulate, hairy on both 
surfaces or at least on the nerves beneath; ` petiole 1-3 in. | Peduncles 3-1 M» 
often several fascicled on shortened lateral branches, 1—5-fld., pubescent ; bracts j n» 
linear ; pedicels 3-3 in. Calyx T; in., persistent; teeth linear, pubescent. Corolla 
4 in., glabrous. Ovary minutely glandular; style glabrous, about as long as the 
ovary. Capsule glabrous, acute, beaked by the style; valves 2, often remaining 
attached at the apex or on one side (in the manner of Lozocarpus), ultimately again 
-partite. 
2. L. glabra; glabrous, leaves elliptic acuminate at both ends 
capsule j in. oblong 2-valved nearly from the first 4-valved. Cheilosandra 
leptopus, Griff. ms. ; Benth. in Gen. PL ii. 1025. 
Upper AssAM ; Mishmee Hills, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3843). . 
A shrub, closely resembling L. pubescens, but altogether glabrous. Petioles 
