Tas. 8627. 
ORNITHOBOEA Lacet. 
Burma. 
GESNERIACEAE. Tribe CyRTANDREAE. 
OrnirHopora, Parish ex C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. vol. v. p. 147. 
Ornithoboea Lacei, Craib in Kew Bull, 1913, p. 115; ab affini O. Parishit, 
C. B. Clarke, foliorum nervis prominentibus floribus majoribus labii 
inferioris lobis emarginatis distinguenda. 
Herba, forsan biennis ; caulis pars basalis annotina ad 11 cm. longa, 5-6 mm. 
diametro, plus minusve quadrangularis, basibus petiolorum persisten- 
tibus dense tecta, apicem versus praecipue densius pilosa; pars horno- 
tina florifera saepius circiter 80 cm. alta, undique glanduloso-pilosula, 
Folia valde inaequilateralia, plerumque late ovata, apice acuminata, 
acutiuscula vel obtusa, basi rotundata, latere uno altero usque ad 7 mm. 
altius terminata, 3°5-11 cm. longa, 2°5-8°5 cm. lata, chartacea, pagina 
utraque pilosula et inferiore pallidiore minute aureo-glandulosa, nervis 
lateralibus utrinsecus ad 10 supra conspicuis subtus cum nervis transversis 
prominentibus, crenato-serrata, petiolo usque ad 12 cm. longo glanduloso- 
pilosulo suffulta. Cymae axillares, petiolis dimidio breviores; pedicelli 
saepius 1°5 cm. longi, glanduloso-pilosuli. Sepala inter se subaequalia, 
oblongo-lanceolata, apice acuminata, acuta, ad 7 mm, longa, 3°5 mm. 
lata, utrinque pilosula. Corollae tubus 7 mm. longus; labium inferius 
tubo aequilongum, e lobis tribus oblongis apice emarginatis inter se paulo 
inaequalibus vix 5 mm. longis ad 3°5 mm. latis constitutum ; labium 
superius lobis duobus brevibus alte bifidis. Stamina 2, antheris majus- 
culis; staminodia 3, superiore minuto. Ovarium 2 mm. altum, dense 
glandulosum ; stylus 5 mm. longus. Fructus ad 1°5 em. longus, 2°5 mm. 
diametro, glanduloso-pilosus et parce aureo-glandulosus.—W. G. Crars. 
The genus Ornithoboea was originally based on a solitary 
species from Tenasserim, sent to the late Sir William 
Hooker by the Rev. C. P. Parish over half a century 
ago, though a description of Parish’s genus was not pub- 
lished until 1883, when Mr. C. B. Clarke named the species 
O. Parishii. Thirty years later Mr. Craib added two more 
species, 0. Henryi discovered by Mr. A. Henry in Yunnan, 
near the Burmese frontier, and 0. Lacei, sent by Mr. J. H. 
Lace from Upper Burma. Since 1913 Craib has described 
yet another, O. lanata, found by Dr. A. F. G. Kerr in 
North-western Siam. Another form sent from the same 
region by Kerr, which comes near QO. Lacei, has flowered 
in the Botanic Garden of Trinity College, Dublin; yet 
another, known only in fruit, occurs in Tonkin. The first 
record of this Indo-Chinese genus in cultivation relates to 
Kerr’s two Siamese forms, flowered at Dublin by Professor 
SEPTEMBER, 1915. 
