272 GesneraceCE. {/Eschynanthus. 



Perfect stam. 4. 



Stam. didynamous ; epiphytic shrub . . .1. vEsCHYNANTHUS. 

 Stam. not didynamous ; herbs. 



Cor. very unequally 2-lipped ; anth. connate . 5. Klugia. 

 Cor. rotate, lobes equal ; anth. not connate 



Cor. 4-lobed ; 1. opp 4. Championia. 



Cor. 5-lobed ; 1. alt 7. Isanthera. 



Perfect stam. 2, anth. connate. 

 Capsule linear, 2-valved. 



Sep. distinct ; 1. radical or alt. . . .2. Didymocarpus. 



Sep. connate into cal.; 1. opp. or whorled . 3. Chirita. 

 Capsule globose, circumscissile . . . .6. Epithema. 



With the exception of Didymocarpus Humboldtianus, no species is 

 found in the dry region, but all in the moist, and the majority both in the 

 hills and the low country. All the species oi Didymocarpus and Chirita 

 and Klugia ::cyhinica are endemic, as also is the monotypic genus Cham- 

 pionia— in all, 8 out of our 12 species. 



I. a:SCHYNA.NTHUS,/^?^/C. 



An epiphytic shrub, 1. opp. fl. soHtary, axillary (apparently 

 terminal); sep. 5, very narrow; cor. funnel-shaped-tubular, 

 curved, 2-lipped, upper lip of 2 smaller lower lip of 3 larger 

 lobes ; stam. 4, didynamous, anth. connate in pairs, cells 

 confluent; ov. i -celled, placentas 2, recurved ; capsule linear, 

 2- or sub-4-valved, seeds very numerous, oblong, with a very 

 long hair-like process at each end. — Sp. 52 ; 23 in Fl. B. bid. 



JE. zeylanica, Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 474 (1845). 

 Thw. Enum. 206. Clarke, Mon. Cyrt. 26. C. P. 1782. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 340. 



Stems climbing, long, rooting at the thickened nodes, 

 slender, cylindrical or slightly quadrangular, much branched, 

 bark loose, smooth and shining, yellowish ; 1. 2^-4 in., linear- 

 lanceolate, very much tapering into short thick petiole, acumi- 

 nate, subacute, entire, glabrous, very fleshy, pale green ; fl. 

 few, solitary in axils of terminal pair of 1., ped. under \ in., 

 slender, glabrous, deflexed ; sep. linear, subacute, glabrous ; 

 cor. about about i in., finely pubescent outside ; stam. 

 exserted ; style exscrted, rather shorter than stam. ; capsule 

 about 6 in., linear, curved, valves thin and papery. 



Var. /^, ping-uls, Clarke, Mon. Cyrt.* 26. 



L. smaller and thicker ; cor. glabrous outside ; capsule 

 shorter. 



* Mr. Clarke's monograph of the Cyrtandrcce is dated Sept., 1883, and 

 therefore takes precedence of the part of the Fl. P. Ind. containing his 



