€htrita.'] Gesnerace^. 275 



slightly oblique at mouth, lobes 5, subequal, rounded, the 2 

 upper slightly connate to form an upper lip ; stam. 2, in- 

 serted near base of cor., fil. short, anth. connate with a tuft of 

 hair on back, cells confluent, staminodes 2 (or 3) small, club- 

 shaped, hairy at top; disk annular or lobed ; ov. i -celled 

 with 2 reflexed placentas ; stigma much dilated, peltate or 

 with 2 unequal lobes ; capsule linear, loculicidally 2-valved ; 

 .seeds very numerous, reticulate. — Sp. 25 ; 18 in Fl. B. Lid. 



Fl. solitary or in threes. 



Cal. cut to base; cor. 2^ in. . . . i. C. MoONll. 



Cal. cut halfway down ; cor. under 2 in. . 2. C. Walkeri. 



Fl. in paniculate cymes; cor. about I5 in. . 3. C. zeylanica. 



1. C. BXoonii, Gardn. itt. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 479 (1845). 

 Marty7iia lanceolata, Moon Cat. 45. Thw. Enum. 207. Clarke, 1. c. 



III. C. P. 1789. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 356. Bot. Mag. t. 4405. 



A large perennial, stems 2-3 ft. or more, branched, stout, 

 rather succulent, slightly thickened at nodes and marked with 

 scars of 1., densely tomentose-hairy when young ; 1. numerous, 

 •drooping, opp. or rarely 3 or 4 in a whorl, 3-6 in., narrowly 

 lanceolate, tapering to both ends, acute, entire, densely 

 covered with long silky yellowish hair on both sides, bright 

 light green, lat. veins numerous, parallel, very oblique, con- 

 spicuous, petiole short, silky-hairy, dilated at base ; fl. very 

 large, numerous, solitary, ped. i|-2 in., hairy, with 2 small 

 linear bracts above the middle ; cal. cut to base into 5 nearly 

 distinct sep., 1 in., oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, very acute, 

 keeled, silky ; cor. 2\ in., limb nearly 3 in. diam., mouth 

 oblique, lobes of upper lip broader than long; disk 5 -lobed ; 

 ov. glabrous ; capsule 4-5 in., glabrous. 



Moist region to 4000 ft. ; rare. Four Korales Dist. (Moon) ; Hantane; 

 Kaduganawa ; Ambagamuwa. Fl. June-October; clear mauve-violet, 

 tube white, with a broad yellow line down lower side. 



Endemic. 



Perhaps the most beautiful of our flowering plants, and well known in 

 stoves at home. It grows to a large size in cultivation. 



2. C Walkeri, Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 480 (1845). 

 Thw. Enum. 207. Clarke, 1. c. 112. C. P. 2843. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 356. Bot. Mag. t. 4327 (C VValkerice). 



Stem and 1. as in C. Moonii but the latter rather smaller 

 and distantly denticulate, often 3 in a whorl ; fl. smaller, on 

 slender hairy ped., usually in threes, peduncles very slender, 

 about 2 in., hairy ; cal. over f in. cut half way down, segm. 

 linear, acuminate, hairy ; cor. under 2 in., limb about i in. 



