Tab. 7336. 



^ESCHYNANTHUS obconioa. 



Native of the Malayan Peninsula and Islands. 



Nat. Ord. G£snerace.s. — Tribe Cyrtandee^. 

 Genus ^schtnanthtts, Jack. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. vol. ii. p. 1013.) 



iEscHYNANTHtrS (Holocalyx) obconica; caule gracili elongato ramoso, ramis 

 pendulis subpilosis, foliia ovato-rotundatis v. elliptico-ovatis sabacutis 

 ciliolatis coriaceis, pedunculia brevibus bifloris, pedicellis pedunculo 

 triplo longioribus calycibusque sanguineis pubescentibus, calyce amplo 

 campamilato margine recurvo obscure 4-lobo, corollas tubo curvo vix 

 exserto sanguineo villoso, limbi lobis late ovatis obtusis flavidis marginibus 

 vittaque media lata sanguineis, lobo postico erecto fornicato lateralibus 

 patulis, filamentis exsertis glandulosis, ovario cylindraceo puberulo, 

 stigmate disciforme, disco annulari. 



M. obconica, C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. vol. v. pars. i. p. 50 ; 

 in Hook. Pi. Brit. Ind. vol. iv. p. 342. 



M, obconica belongs to a small section of the genus, all 

 natives of the Malayan region, and is closely allied to 

 M. tricolor, Hook., tab. 5031 of this work, differing in the 

 very much larger broader calyx, and in the shorter corolla- 

 tube. It was imported by Messrs. Yeitch from the Malayan 

 Peninsula, and there is a specimen of it in the Kew 

 Herbarium from Borneo, collected atBanjarmassin by Motley 

 (n. 687), which has been by an oversight included under 

 2EJ. tricolor in the monograph of Gyrtandrese, cited above. 

 In the type specimen described by Mr. Clarke, which was 

 collected by Beccari, at Klang in Sangalore, and which I 

 have not seen, the leaves are elliptic or oblong, or rarely 

 rhomboid, acuminate and narrowed at both ends. 



The specimen figured was sent, in flower, to the Royal 

 Gardens by Messrs. Veitch in July, 1893. 



Stem slender, elongate, branched, terete, puberulous or 

 sparsely hairy. Leaves 2-2^ in. by 1^ broad, orbicular- 

 ovate, obtuse or subacute, glabrous, margins ciliolate, 

 fleshy ; nerves few, distant ; petiole ^ in., puberulous. 

 Flowers in pairs in a short green upcurved peduncle with 

 January 1st, 1894. 



