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CHIRITA POLYNEURA «. 
Bamabilis. Folia subtusglabra aut secus venas vix pilosa. Pedicelli abbreviati villosi. Calyx corolloideus gla- 
ber parum divisus. Corolla extus glabra tubo inflato. 
Hab. In Himalaya ad 1000-2000 ped. alt. In Khasia ad 2000-5000 ped. alt. 
T have distributed this form as a species, Chirita amubilis. This and the form «. Thomsoni both grow on the Government 
Cinchona Plantation in Sikkim, «. Thomsoni above and g, amabilis at the bottom; and the Head Gardener there Mr. Gammie after ample - 
observation inclined to think them two distinct plants. 
Phese two types however do not at all exhaust the variations of the species. The Khasia specimens leaves vary from quite 
glabrous underneath to very villose in an unbroken series. The Javan plants from Miquel’s description combine the characters of « and 
f. somewhat differently. 
Miquel remarks on the resemblance of this species to Ch. Horsfieldii. It is indeed so remarkable, that I doubt whether I 
could separate dried specimens of the shoots of Ch. Horsfieldii from dried specimens of Ch. polyneura & But Ch. Horsfieldii is a woody 
shrub. 
In Ch. polyneura g, the peduncle is sometimes shortly connate with the petiole of the leaf ina manner curiously foresha- 
dowing the approach of Ch. hamosa. 
EXPLICATIO TABUL/Z LXXVI. 
Planta ex specimine recente Sikkimensi depicta. 
Talyx fissus et explanatus. 
2, Stamina. 
3. Pistillum eum disco, a facie et a latere visum, 
