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Seeds numerous, stipitate, oblong or ellipsoid, subacute at both ends, 

 striate (often spirally). — Distuib. Erom India to the Piiilippines, 

 Tropical Africa ; species perhaps 6. 



1. Epithema carnosum, Benth. Scroph. Ind. (1835) p. 57, vak. 

 hispida, C. B. Clarke, in DO. Monorjr. v. 5 (1883) p. 178. Stem 

 2-12 in. high, slightly branched, erect, succulent, rough with bristly 

 hairs. Leaves few (sometimes only 1), the upper opposite, nearly 

 sessile, the loner alternate, petiolate, 1-6 in. long, nearly as bi'oad as 

 long, broadly elliptic or ovate, obtuse, more or less iuciso-sprrate, 

 covered on both sides with bristly hairs ; lower petioles 2-4 in. long. 

 Flowers in close scorpioid cymes ; peduncles 1-4 in. long, solitary or 

 2-5 together, terminal or axillary, rough with bristly hairs, free or 

 racemosely (not fasciculately) confluent with the petiole or leaf-base; 

 bract g-| in. long, at the summit of the peduncle below the inflorescence, 

 leafy, broadly ovate, cordate, cucullate, obtuse, dentate ; pedicels 0-1 in. 

 Jong. Calyx i— 1- in. long, pubescent ; lobes slightly shorter than the 

 tube, triangular, acute, with a subulate point. Corolla blue, ^-^ in. 

 long, with a ring of hairs inside ; tube longer than the subequal lobes. 

 Capsules jlj in, in diam., globose. Seeds scarcely -^-^ in. long, with a 

 long funicle, oblong, acute at both ends, spirally striate. 11. B. I. v. 4, 

 p. 309. Epithema cei/lanicum, Wight, 111. t. 159 bis, fig. 3 ; Icon. t. 1354 

 (not of Gardn.) ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 135. 



Eare ; chiefly on the Southern Ghats of the Presidency. Without locality in Herb. 

 Kew., DaLell \ S. M. Country : Chorla Ghat, Stocks I — Distuib. India (W. 



Peninsula). 



Several non-indigenous plants of the Order (chiefly BraziHan) are 

 grown in gardens and conser\'atories, where they are very showy and 

 ornamental. The following are the chief species grown, but several 

 hybrids are being introduced: — 



Gesneria Dour/lasii, Lindl. in Trans. Hort. Soc. v. 7 (1830) p. 62. 

 A handsome herbaceous plant, a native of Brazil. Leaves 5-7 in a 

 whorl, about 6 in. from the ground, ovate, crenate-serrate, ciliate, 

 downy, with a fine gloss on each side. Corolla tubular, pink or orange, 

 striped and bordered with blood-red spots. Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. 

 p. 65. 



AcMmines hirsuta, DC. Prodr. v. 7 (1838) p. 536. A native of 

 Brazil, about 2 ft. high, hairy. Leaves ovate-oblong, coarsely serrate. 

 Corolla reddish with yellow eye and spotted throat ; limb flat, with 

 rounded serrulate segments. AcJiimines Shinneri, Gordon, in Journ. 

 Hort. Soc. V. 2 (1847) p. 293, t. 4, fig. 2; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. 

 p. 65. 



Sinningia tuhifora, Fritsch, in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. v. 4, 3 B 

 (1894) ]). 182. A fine plant 2 ft. or more high, a native of Brazil. 

 Leaves 5 in. long, oblong-lanceolate, subacuminate, shortly petiolate, 

 ciliate, green with darker markings. Corolla white or pnle-yellow ; 

 tube 2i in. long. Gloxinia tubijlora, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3971. Achi- 

 mines tuhifora, Britton, in Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sc. v. 7 (1893) p. 185; 

 Woodr. Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 406. 



