Tab. 7365. 

 ^SCHYNANTHUS Hildebrandii. 



Native of Burma. 



Nat. Ord. Gesnerace^.— Tribe Cyrtandre,e. 

 Genus ,Eschynanthcs, Jack.; (Benth. & HooJc.f. Gen. PI. vol. ii. p. 1013). 



JSschynanthcjs (Haplotrichium) Hildebrandii ; humilis, casspitosus, ramulis e 

 caule repente ramoso ascendentibua foliosis puberulis, folns polhcanbus 

 breviter petiolatis oppositis supremis confertis carnosis ovatis v. obovato- 

 oblongis obtusis marginibus ciliolatia et remote glanduloso-punctatis 

 titrinque hirtulis subtua albescentibus, pedunculia in axillis snpremis 

 brevibus, calycia segmentis subaaqualibua corolla multoties brevioribns 

 ovato-lanceolatis acutis, corolla3 pollicaris aureo-coccinese glanduloso- 

 pubescentis tubo lente curvo compresso superne inflato bilabiato basi intus 

 papilloso, labio superiore galeato breviter obtuse 3-lobo, infenore linean 

 obtuso, filamentis longe exsertis styloque glanduloso-pubescentibus, disco 

 cylindrico, ovario glaberrimo. 



M. Hildebrandii, Hemsl. in Herb. Kew. 



A very distinct species of a genus that is abundant in 

 the moister forest-clad districts of British India, in the 

 eastern provinces especially, extending from the Central 

 Himalaya to Burma, and southwards to Ceylon and Singa- 

 pore About twenty-five Indian species are known, a 

 number which will no doubt be considerably increased 

 when the eastern province of Burma shall have been ex- 

 plored botanically. M. Hildebrandii belongs to the section 

 Haplotrichium, in which the seeds have one long hair at 

 each extremity. Specifically it is nearest to M. gracilis, 

 Parish (a hirsute, pendulous, widely distributed species, 

 from Sikkim to Burma), in the form of the corolla, but it 

 differs totally in habit, and in the absence of long hairs on 

 the stem, leaves, and flowers, which are replaced by a 

 short glandular-pubescence. 



M Hildebrandii is a native of Burma, whence living 

 plants were sent to the Royal Gardens by H. H. Hildebrand, 

 Esq., who found the plant near Fort Stedman. 



Descr.—A dwarf, leafy species. Stems loosely tutted 

 creeping, subterrestrial, about as thick as a crowquill, and 



July 1st, 1894. 



