Rhynchotechum.] cvi. Gesneracex. (C. B. Clarke.) 373 
Sepals 5, small, narrow. Corolla small, subcampanulate, purple-rose or 
white; limb obscurely 2-lipped; lobes 5, subequal, round, Stamens 4 
perfect, attached near the base of the corolla, filaments short linear curved ; 
anther-cells 2, subparallel below, dehiscent on the inner face, completely 
confluent at the apex. Disc 0 or very small annular. Ovary sessile, ovoid ; 
style linear elongate, stigma small; placente nearly meeting in the axis of 
the ovary, there naked, then recurved bearing the ovules. Berry small, 
globose, apiculate, glistening white, pulpy. Seeds very small, ellipsoid, 
smooth.— Species 8, from Bengal through Malaya to the Philippines. 
l. R. parviflorum, Blume Bijd. p. 775; leaves broadly oblanceolate 
serrate mature glabrate except on the nerves beneath, sepals softly tawny- 
villous, corolla very small, ovary upwards densely shortly hairy. 
JAVA ; frequent. e . 
VAR. ? penangensis ; sepals caudate-acuminate tawny silky in fruit, corolla exceed- 
ing the sepals. —PENANG.— The material is a stem with flowers and half-ripe fruit, 
but no leaves, which has been doubtfully referred to R. ellipticum, from which it 
differs in the indumentum, and the minutely hairy ovary. It is either a large-fid. 
var. of R. parviflorum, or a species nearly allied to it. The peduncles are all opposite 
at the nodes; in the Java R. parviflorum the lower leaves and peduncles are fre- 
quently alternate. 
2. R. ellipticum, 4. DC. Prodr. ix. 285, in note; leaves broadly 
elliptie or obovate acute minutely dentate mature glabrous above sepa Is 
after flowering patently pilose, corolla } in., ovary glabrous or i very ce 
gland-tipped hairs. Bot. Mag. t. 5832; Clarke Comm. & Cyne erg. i ST 
Corysanthera elliptica, Wall. Cat. 6411. —Cyrtandracea, Griff. Ic. Pl. . 
t. 439. 
SIKKIM, BnorAN, Assam, Knasta MTS., CACHAR and SILHET; alt. 0-3500 ft. 
in or near the hills, frequent. 
Stem 2-4 ft., thick, cinnamoneous, tomentose or woolly at the ape Xe Leaves 
opposite, 64 by 3} in. (often larger), base cuneate, somewhat et densely cinnumo- 
beneath, above tawny, silkily woolly, afterwards glabrate, beneath dense A^ arallel ; 
neous-woolly, afterwards glabrous except the nerves; nerves 15-20 n divide d from 
petiole 2-11 in. Peduncles l-1} in., often 2—4 together (or the pedune ed iy MA 
the base), when young tawny-silky, divaricately often umbellately thi ks readin 
in., narrowly lanceolate, mature squamous or seabrous from the t Peer ; rend 
hairs, often corolloid, rose. Corolla rose-purple, minutely hairy without. yam. 
diam, : A 
Var. pilosior; mature leaves above with close short white hairs, sepals patently 
hispid.— Darjeeling ; alt. 3500 tt., Clarke. . : 
VAR. angusta E leaves narrowly elongate-lanceolate (sometimes 10 by is in.), nerves 
10-15 pair.—Cachar; H. F4 T, Keenan. MARTABAN ; Parish.—Possibly a dis 
species ; see Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 5832. . Chitta. 
Var. Hookeri; Jr in J oblong, cymes very dense repeatedly trichotomous. pte 
gong; Seetakoond, alt. 1000 ft., H. f. & T.; Demagri, alt. 250 ft., Clarke. —Probably 
only the full form of the preceding variety angusta. 
3. R. vestitum, Hf. 4 T.; Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. B 24. prin 
elliptic acuminate at both ends slightly dentate hirsute on bot be so 
inflorescence very hirsute, corolla 1-3 in., ovary glabrous or nearly 
Corisanthera vestita, Griff. Itin. Notes, 124, n. 426. t 
SIKKIM and Bnoraw HixaLAYA, Assam, KHasrA Mrs., alt. 1-3000 ft., no 
rare ; - A . : i i 
Stem ote dicil Sete hispid upwards. Leaves opposite, 9 by 2a dh petiole 
above with long yellow hairs rising from tubercles, more softly hairy 3 
