308 GESNERACE^. 



Marshy places in the open. Nilgiris : near Pykara on the 

 river bank ; Kaity. Pulneys : Kodaikanal down to Machur. 

 Bourne 1657. 



Gen. Dist. South Indian hills and Ceylon. 



Utricularia raccmosa Wall ; F.B.L iv 333, I 17. 

 Scape 3 to 6 inches Slender. Scales and bracts produced 

 backwards below the point of attachment. Flowers 

 subsessile. Purple. 



Kodaikanal, near the hike, at the head of Lidcot valley and 

 Bruce's swamps. Bourne 16, 1657,* 1658. 



GESNERACE/E. 



Mostly herbs, though some shrubby, with opposite 

 or alternate, often radical leaves. Calyx and corolla 

 typically fivelobed, but stamens two or four only. Corolla 

 mostly two-lipped with the upper lip, or two lobes, inside 

 the others in bud. Ovary one-celled, remarkable for the 

 two large placentas projecting into the cavity on stalks 

 or on a narrower portion, which may divide the ovary 

 incompletely into two cells. Seeds numerous. 



Genera about 80, species 800 or 900 in south-east Asia, 

 Polynesia, and tropical America. 



In some of the family one only of the two seed-leaves (cotyledons) is 

 developed, and it may increase in size continuously and be the only leaf 

 the plant ever possesses. 



>ESCHYNANTHUS. f.b.i. 106 i. 



Shrubby plants growing on the branches of trees. 

 Leaves opposite, succulent or leathery. Flowers in 

 small stalked bunches at the ends of the branches, with 

 the characters of the family, but distinguished by having 

 four perfect stamens projecting out of the flower, the 



