TAB. 8333; 
“CHIRITA Rupesrris. : 
Malay Peninsula. 
GESNERACKAR. Tribe CyrTANDREAE. 
Cumita, Ham.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1022; Clurke ia 
DU. Monogr. Phan. vol. y. pars 1, p. 109. 
Chirita rupestris, Rid), in Journ. Str. Br. Roy. As. Soc. n. 48 (1905), p. 59 et 
in King & Gamble, Mat. Fl. Mal. len. iv. 976 (Journ, As. Soc. Beng. 
vol. Ixxiv. pars 2, p. 766); inter species in peninsula malayana adhuc 
obvias C. Glasgovii, Ridl., maxime affinis, corolla dimidio breviore 
facillime tamen distinguenda. 
Hlerba erecta, simplex vel e basi ramosa, 30-60 cm. alta, caule glabrescente. 
Folia opposita, ovata, apice subacuta, basi inaequalia, truncata rotundata vel 
subcuneata, 5-8 cm. longa, 2°5-6 cm. lata, margiue serrata, membranacea, 
subtus parce farinosa, utrinque pilosa, pilis supra longiusculis multi- 
cellularibus subtus brevioribus, nervis lateralibus utrinque cireiter 10 
subtus prominulis; petioli ad 7 em. usque longi, pilosi, supra canaliculati. 
Peduncult axillares, solitarii vel bini, 4-8-flori, 1-3-5 cm. longi; bracteae 
connatae cupulam pilosam margine crenato-serratam formantes. Pedicelli 
glabri, fere 8 mm. longi. Calyx fere ad basin usque partitus, segmentis 
Jineari-lanceolatis circiter 1 cm. longis pilis longiusculis ciliatis. Corolla 
infundibuliformis, intus antice lutea, ceterum azurea; tubus albus, 
calycem paulo excedens, bracteis aequilongus, intra calycem curvatus, 
extra et apice intus glanduloso-pilosus; limbus patulus 12 mm. latus. 
Stamina 2; filamenta 7 mm. supra basin tubi inserta; anthcrae postice 
barbatae; staminodia 3, quorum 2 filimentis fere aequilonga, alterum 
perbreve. Discus annularis, OUvirium pilis alpressis obtectum, 9 mm. 
altum, 1 mm. diametro; stylus stamina superans; stigma 2-lamellatum.— 
W. G. Crars. 
A. marked feature of the species of the natural family 
Gesneraceae to which the plant here figured belongs is 
their extremely limited distribution. This pleasing Chirita 
appears to be no exception to this rule, for it has so far 
only been met with on the limestone rocks of Lankawi 
which are, it appears, particularly rich in Gesneraceous 
plants; it is one of the many novelties met with by 
Mr. C. Curtis, in the course of his botanical investigation 
of this island, which lies off the coast of Kedah in the 
Malay Peninsula. It was introduced to European _horti- 
culture by Mr. H. N. Ridley, who communicated seeds to 
Kew from tle Singapore Botanical Garden in 1905, the 
year in which he first published an account of the plant. 
As cultivated at Kew, in a moist tropical house, it is a 
September, 1910. 
