Tas. 8719. 
OREOCHARIS Forresttr. 
China. 
GESNERIACEAE. ‘Tribe CYRTANDREAE, 
Orgocuaris, Benth.; Benth. et Hook. Ff. Gen, Plant. vol. ii. p. 1021. 
Oreocharis Forrestii, Skan; species O. Delavayi, Franch. affinis, sed foliis 
sessilibus vel brevius petiolatis, corollae tubo breviore et latiore, filamentis 
omnino glabris, stigmate patelliforme haud 2-lobo differt. 
Herba perennis, acaulescens, radice fibrosa, Folia rosulata, exteriora petiolata, 
interiora sessilia, ovato-oblonga, apice obtusa, basi subcuneata, irregulariter 
grosse crenato-serrata, cum petiolo lato 4-14 cm. longa, 1°5-4-5 cm. lata, 
utrinque praesertim primum longe denseque ferrugineo-villosa; nervi 
primarii 5-7, crassi, subtus prominentes. Scapt 4-10 vel plures, erecti vel 
adscendentes, 6-12 cm. alti, glanduloso-pilosi, cymas laxas umbelliformes 
4-7-floras gerentes; pedicelli 1-2-5 cm. longi, glanduloso-pilosi; bracteae 
et bracteolae anguste ovatae vel lanceolatae, 1°5-7 mm. longae. Flores 
subpenduli. Calyx 5-partitus, 5-8 mm. longus, parce glanduloso-pilosus ; 
segmenta anguste ovata vel lanceolata, 4-7 mm. longa, 1:5-3 mm. lata, 
obtusa vel subacuta. Corolla pallide lutea; tubus late tubulosus, 7-10 mm. 
longus, 5-7; mm. latus, glanduloso-puberulus ; limbus leviter 2-labiatus, 
saepissime 5-lobatus, rarius 4- vel 6-lobatus, erecto-patens ; lobi rotundati 
vel subelliptici, 83-5 mm. longi, 8-4 mm. lati, superiores caeteris paulum 
minores. Stamina 4, didynama cum staminodio minuto vel minutissimo, 
rare 5 absque staminodio, omnia inclusa; filamenta prope basin corollae 
tubi inserta, leviter dilatata, 4-5 mm. longa, glabra; antherae liberae haud 
conniventes, ovoideo-reniformes, loculis subparallelis apice vix confluen- 
tibus. Discus late cupularis,1-5 mm. altus. Ovarium anguste ovoideum, 
3-4 mm. longum, 2 mm. latum, glabrum ; stylus brevis latusque, stamina 
breviora vix superans, stigmate patelliforme. Capswla anguste fusiformis, 
circiter 2°5 cm. longa, 4 mm. lata.— Roettlera Forrestii, Diels in Notes 
Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinb. vol. vy. p. 224; [Irving] in Gard. Chron. 1915, 
vol. lviii. p. 265, fig. 97 (Rottlera).—S. A. SKAN. 
This free-flowering little Gesnerad was discovered by 
Mr. George Forrest on the eastern flank of the Lichiang 
Range in North-Western Yunnan. The plant was met 
with on mess-covered boulders and on branches of trees 
in very shady situations at an elevation of from 10,000 to 
11,000 feet. Mr. Forrest sent seeds to Messrs. Bees, Ltd., 
from whom some were received at Kew in 1913. One of 
the plants raised from these, which flowered in a cold 
house in May, 1915, furnished the material for the accom- 
es . panying figure. At Edinburgh it has been in cultivation 
_ Since 1909 and there it flowers freely. It is not yet clear 
Juxy, 1917, 
