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Moist low country ; rather common. Kalutara (Moon) ; Colombo ; 

 Ratnapura; Pasdun Korale ; Badamua, S. Prov. Var. /3 in montane zone 

 also, up to 6000 ft.; first collected by Gardner. Fl. Dec-March; tl. 

 white, or very pale blue or reddish-purple. Var. /3, darker purple. 



Also in India, Burma, China. 



Var. /3, endemic (?). 



Dries black. Var. /3 is kept up as a species in Fl. B. Ind., being based 

 on Gardner's n. 507, which is C. P. 277. 



10. U. orbiculata, Wall. Cat. 1500 (1828). 



U. glochidiata, Wight, Ic. iv. pt. 4, 11. Thw. Enum. 172. C. P. 

 2084, 3350. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 334. Wight, Ic. t. 1581. 



Stems numerous, creeping, filiform, very delicate, much 

 branched ; 1. not fugacious but persistent during flowering 

 period, very small, 3—- ^ in., orbicular, tapering at base into 

 rather long petiole, veined from the base, bladders on the 

 stems, shortly stalked ; flowering stem 2-4 in., very erect, 

 filiform ; fl. rather large (for the plants) 3-8, on long delicate 

 very spreading ped., distant ; sep. very unequal, broadly oval, 

 very obtuse, enlarged in fruit ; lower lip of cor. -| in. wide, 

 5-toothed or lobed, spur \ in. or more, very narrow, straight, 

 pointed ; capsule globose ; seeds minute, oblong-oval, covered 

 with glochidiate spines. 



On wet rocks and tree-trunks in montane zone 3000-6000 ft. ; common. 

 Fl. Sept.-Dec. ; pale violet, base of lip yellowish. 



In the mountains of India, Malaya, and S. China. 



An exquisite little plant, very common in the planting districts, 

 growing with moss. 



XCV.— GESNERACE^ {CyrtandrecB). 



Herbs, rarely shrubby, 1. alt, opp. or whorled, no stip. ; fl. 

 bisexual, large or small, usually irregular ; cal. free, segm. or 

 distinct sep. 5, valvate ; cor. often 2-lipped, tube either long 

 and tubular or campanulate or very short, lobes 5 (rarely 4), 

 imbricate ; perfect stam. 4 (didynamous or not) or 2, anth- 

 often connate, 2-celled but with the cells confluent ; ov. 

 superior, i -celled, with 2 parietal placentas, ovules numerous, 

 stigma capitate, dilated or small ; fruit a capsule, 2- or 

 4-valved, rarely circumscissile or indehiscent ; seeds very 

 numerous, reticulate, without endosperm. 



