372 OVI. GESNERACEÆ. (C. B. Clarke) ^ [Stawranthera, 
broad, breaking up irregularly.— The examples from the Chittagong Hills (without 
flowers) are more hairy, the leaves beneath closely grey-pilose. 
S.? Brandisii; leaves alternate, pedicels long fascicled in abbreviated 
cymes, calyx narrow, capsule small longer than broad. 
Preu; Thoungyun, Brandis. . 
Stem creeping at the base; innovations rusty-silkily woolly. Leaves 7 by 4in. 
shortly acute, very unequal-sided, somewhat thick, glabrate above, rusty-villous 
beneath; petiole } in. ' Pedicels in fruit 4-3 in., glabrous; bracts $ by j in., oblong, 
obtuse, nearly glabrous. Sepals in fruit } by 4 in., elliptic, acute, imbricate, shortly 
united at the base, nearly glabrous. Capsule À by j in., acute, glabrous, papery, 1n- 
dehiscent; placente deeply intruded, bifid, branched ; plates thin, bearing ovules on 
both sides. Seeds minute, obovoid, smooth.— Probably a new genus, but the flowers 
are unknown ; the leaves are much like those of Stauranthera umbrosa ; the inflores- 
cence, bracts, ealyx and capsule do not suit Stauranthera, but Rhynchotechum. 
XXIII. ISANTHERA, Nees. 
Small, nearly simple, undershrubs; innovations tawny, silkily woolly. 
Leaves all alternate, broadly oblanceolate, acuminate at both ends. Cymes 
axillary, short-peduncled, towards the end of the stem; bracts narrow. 
Sepals 5, small, narrow. Corolla small, shortly campanulate, obscurely 
2-lipped; lobes 5, ovate. Stamens 4 fertile (sometimes 5 fide Nees); fila- 
ments short; anthers small, subquadrate, 2-celled, slits marginal, finally 
confluent at the subemarginate apex. Disc very small or 0. Ovary ovoid, 
sessile; style shorter than the ovary, stigma small simple; placentas deeply 
inflexed, then bifid recurved bearing the ovules. Berry small, ovoid or 
subglobose, fleshy, indehiscent or (fide Gardner) ultimately 2-valved. Seeds 
very small, ellipsoid, smooth.—Species 3, in India, Malaya and the Philip- 
pines. 
A genus which should perhaps be merged in Rhynchotechum ; differing in having 
no opposite leaves, a shorter style, and the anthers dehiscent exactly on the 
margins. 
I. permollis, Nees in Trans. Linn. Sor. 17, p. 82; leaves nearly entire, 
nerves 11-19 pair, cymes short-peduncled dense. Wall. Cat. 9073; DC. 
Prodr. ix.279; Wight Ill. t. 159 b, fig. 5, and Je. t. 1355. I. floribunda. 
Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 483. Cyrtandra ? lanuginosa, R. Br. 
in Wall. Cat. 7131. 
S. Mapras, Heyne; Nilgherries and Courtallum, Wight, &c. CEYLON, UP to 
4000 ft. alt. ; Gardner, Thwaites, &c. 
Stem 8-12 in. Leaves attaining 93 by 4 in. ; mature glabrous above, more OF les 
tawny and woolly beneath ; petiole |-1 in. Peduncles scarcely as long as the petioles: 
cymes 4-1; in. diam. Sepals |j in., silky, finally nearly glabrous. Corolla ! M» 
white. Berry 1 by } in.—In Wight's figures the anthers are depicted from aD 
example past flower. > Herb 
_ VAR. ? paucinerva; nerves of the leaves 6-8 pair.—Mergui; Grifith (in Ber 
Wight).—' This might be suspected a misplaced ticket ; but out of io abundan 
Ceylon material, none has few-nerved leaves resembling this. 
XXIV. RHYNCHOTECHUM, Blume. 
Erect, simple undershrubs; innovations tawny, silkily woolly. ia 
opposite or lower alternate, usually large. Cymesin the lower axils, many 
fid., trichotomous or umbellately compound; bracts narrow, inconspicuous 
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