ACANTHACE^ 91 



Christisonia bicolor Gdrdn. ; F.BJ. iv 322, II 6. 

 Stem hairy short. Flowers 2 to 2j^ inches long close 

 together in more or less of a corymb, pale rose or yellow 

 colour, t. 449. 



Nilgiris: at 5,500 feet and above. Neduvattam, below 

 Coonoor, etc, 



LENTIBULARIACE/E. 



See Vol. I p. 306. 



GESNERACE/E. 



See Vol. I p. 309 and add : 



DIDYMOCARPUS. f.b.i. 106 iv 



Herbs with no leafy stem above ground, all the 

 leaves radical. Flowers on a branched leafless stem. 

 Corolla tube cylindrical, not 2-lipped. Stamens 2 per- 

 fect, 2 or 3 imperfect. Capsule linear. Seeds ellipsoid 

 smooth. 



Species 80 from India through Malaya to China and 

 Australia. 



Didymocarpus rottleriana Wall. ; F.BJ. iv 353, IV 32. 

 Leaves much wrinkled, upper surface covered with short 

 hairs, lower tomentose on the fine reticulations. Upper 

 part of flowering stem glandular-pubescent. Flowers 

 mauve-pink. Capsule I inch very slender. 



Nilgiris and Pulneys at 5,000 feet and above. Common on 

 the Kodaikanal ghat path at Shembaganur. 



The leaves are very like those of the English Primrose but hairy. 



KLUGIA. 



Klugia notoniana DC.\ Vol. I p. 309. t. 450. 



ACANTHACE/E. 



See Vol. I p. 310 and add : 



