Tab. 5429. 



CANSCORA Parishii. 



Parish's Canscora. 



Nat. Ord. GentianejE. — Tetkandiua Monogyma. 



Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus, 4-dentatus. Corolla nuda, demum saepius deci- 

 dua, labio superiore profunde bilobo basi triandro, inferiori emarginato, monan- 

 dro; stamine inferiori longiori. Antliera erectse, immutatatse, 3 superiores li- 

 nearis filamento destitutae; suprema lobis intermedia, laterales juxta et infra 

 labium cordite superius positse ; inferior subrotunda, minor ; filamento snturse 

 loborum inserto brevior. Ovarium uniloculare; ovulis ad suturam insertis. Stylus 

 distinctus, deciduus ; stigmate bilamellato v. bigloboso aut indiviso, capitulato 

 aut bicruri. Capsula bivalvis, septicida, subunilocularis, placentis spongiosis 

 suturalibus. Semina placentis immersa, minuta. — Herbae annua, India orien- 

 talis, Africaque tropica orien talis. Caulis tetrapterus, ramosus, tener ; ramis 

 erecto-patentibus ; panicula dichotoma, rarissime in spicam redacta. Folia tri- 

 nervia, parva, latiuscula. Flores rosei vel albi, tenues ; calyce cylindrico, appresso, 

 corolla tubum aquante. Griesb. in Be Card. 



Canscora Parishii; annua, glabra, caule erecto ramisque dichotomis teretibus, 

 foliis omnibus orbiculari-perfoliatis obtusissimis vix mueronato-apiculatis 

 glaucis, floribus solitariis axillaribus brevissime pedunculatis, calyce inflato- 

 urceolato amplo lobis latis acutis erecto-patentibus, corolla (alba) tubo basi 

 inflato, lobis obovatis subobliquis basi biocellatis, staminibus didynamis 

 omnibus fertilibus. 



A most interesting and perfectly new species of the Gentian 

 family, Canscora, found by the Rev. C. S. P. Parish, on limestone 

 rocks, at Moulmeine, and by Mr. Thomas Lobb, on the rums of 

 a pagoda, in the same country. In 1868, Mr. Parish sent to us 

 seeds, as well as specimens : the former germinated readily, and 

 being annual, and of tolerably rapid growth, the singular leaves 

 and copious pure white flowers, yellowish in the centre, were 

 quite an ornament to the house in the summer months. The 

 species is very remarkable, in having perfectly terete stems 

 and branches, and an equally terete calyx, in no way angled 

 or winged. The leaves are throughout the plant completely 

 connato-perfoliate into one exactly orbiculate leaf, with the stem 



FEBBUAUY 1ST, 1864. 



