Tab. 5832. 

 RHYNCHOTECHUM elliptic™. 



Elliptic-leaved Rliynchotechum. 



Nat. Ord. Cyrtandre^e. — Didynamia Angiospermia. 



Gen. Char. — Calyx 5-fidus, aequalis, lobis lanceolato-subulatis. Corolla 

 tubo brevi subcampanulato, limbo hiante 2-labiato, labio superiore 2-lobo 

 inferiore paulo majore 3-lobo, lobis omnibus subaequalibus rotundatis. 

 Stamina 4, didynama, inclusa, omnia fertilia, filamentis brevissimis ; anathera? 

 parvas 2-loculares, libera?, loculis confluentibus. Ovarium disco annulari 

 impositum ; stylus incurvus, stigmate obtuso. Fructus baccatus, globosus, 

 calyce cinctus, septi carnosi lobis revolutis seminiferis. Semina minuta. 

 Frutices Javanas et India? maxime orientalis incolce ; caule simplici, tereti, 

 medulla ampla ; cortice spongioso. Folia opposita. Corymbi axillares, 

 dichotomi, pedicellis gracilibus. Flores parvi, rosei. Fructus parvus, 

 albus. 



Ehynchotechum ellipticum; caule simplici robusto superne pedunculis 

 petiolis foliisque subtus molliter fulvo lanuginosis, foliis obovato- 

 lanceolatisellipticisveacutis crenato-dentatis, corolla rosea fauce purpurea, 

 lobis rotundatis. 



Rhynchotechum ellipticum, A. DC. in DC. Prodr. vol. ix. p. 285 in nota. 



Corysanthera elliptica, Wall. Cat. No. 6411. 



This genus was established by Blume, on a mountain 

 plant of the island of Java ; but the species here described 

 was subsequently discovered by Wallich's collectors in 

 the Silhet district of Eastern Bengal, inhabiting damp 

 forests. It also occurs in Assam, where it was detected by 

 Griffith, and extends to the Sikkim Himalaya, whence seeds 

 were sent by Mr. Gammie to the Koyal Gardens, Kew, from 

 which the plant here figured was raised. A third species, 

 from the island of Penang, is preserved in the Hookerian 

 Herbarium ; as is a fourth, or possibly a variety of R. ellip- 

 ticum, which was discovered by Mr. Parish on the granite 

 mountain of Tinjake, in Martaban ; and a fifth discovered by 

 Dr. Thomson and myself in the Silhet jungles. All agree 



APRIL 1st, 1870. 



