Tas. 8200. 
CHIRITA pgarpara. 
India. 
GESNERACEAE. Tribe CyRTANDREAE. 
Cuirita, Ham.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1022: C. B. Clarke in 
DC. Monogr. vol. v. pars 1, p. 109. : 
Chirita barbata, Sprague; habitu similis C. hamosae, R. Br., a qua calycis 
forma et antheris barbatis recedit. 
Herba erecta, circiter 60 em. alta, caule crassiusculo pubescente. Folia ovato- 
oblonga, 7-14 cm. longa, 3-6 em. lata, apice subacuta, recurva, basi sub- 
cordata, utrinque villoso-pubescentia, venis lateralibus utrinque 8-10, 
supra in vivo impressis, subtus prominentibus; petioli 0°5-3 cm. longi, 
cum pedunculis conjuncti. Pedicelli liberi, 4-8 pro folio, petiolis insidentes, 
ut calyces breviter villosi, usque ad 2 em. longi. Calyx fere ad basin 
partitus, segmentis lanceolato-oblongis subacutis in basin angustatis 
circiter 1-2 cm. longis 3 mm. latis superne patulis. Corolla oblique infundi- 
buliformis, paullo supra basin antrorsum- curvata, antice ventricosa, intus 
antice lutea ceterum caeruleo-lilacina, tubo 2°5-8 cm. longo, limbo patulo 
2°5-3 cm. lato. Stamina 2, antica; filamenta circiter 6 em. longa, vix 1 cm. 
supra basin corollae inserta; antherae parallelae, connectivis versus latera 
corollae spectantibus, apice leviter depressae, appendiculatae, appendiculis 
confluentibus, dense lanatae, praesertim facie interiore. Staminodia 
3, filiformia. Discus annularis. Ovarium denise villosum ; stylus stamina 
superans, stigmatis lobis ellipticis basi leviter connatis intus dense pube- 
scentibus. Capsula immatura 5 cm. longa, villoso-pubescens.—C. hamosa, 
E. André, in Rev. Hortic. 1895, p. 492, fig. 161; |.c. 1896, p. 184, cum tab. 
col.; non R, Br. 
Chirita barbata is like C. hamosa in having the peduncles 
united with the petioles, so that the flowers seem to spring 
from the latter, but there the resemblance ends. The two 
species differ in the leaves, in the size and shape of the calyx 
and corolla, and. in the anthers, which are very woolly in 
C. barbata and glabrous in C. hamosa. 
C. barbata was brought into commerce as C. hamosa in 
1895 by Mr. J. Sallier of Neuilly, Seine, France, who in 
reply to an inquiry has: courteously given us all the 
information at his disposal. He obtained the species from 
the late Prof. H. Baillon, who informed him that it had 
been introduced by seed from the “mountains of India.” 
There are no wild specimens of C. barbata in the Kew 
Herbarium, and it seems probable that it is a native of one 
of the French possessions in the East Indies. C. hamosa 
JUNE, 1908. 
