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TAB. LXXXI. 
CHIRITA ACUMINATA. 
10. Chirita acuminata R. Brown in Horsfield Pl. Jav. p.117. Incarvillea oblongifolia Roxb. Flor. Ind. III. p. 113. 
Calosacme acuminata Wallich Cat. No. 802. Chirita sp. No. 10 Hook. f. et Th. in Herb. 
Suffrutex, aliquando 6-8 ped. alt. Folia petiolata oblonga acuta minute serrata utrinque molliter pilosa. Pedun- 
culi axillares bis ter quaterve divisi cum bracteis angustis brunneo-villosi. Calyx villosus ad mediam partem divisus segmen- 
tis ovato-lanceolatis. Corolla subviscida pilosa, alba luteo-velroseo-suffusa tubo inferne haud constricto. Ovarium cum 
stylo hirsutum. Stigma vix unilaterale bifidum. Capsula8 uncias longa falcata maturationis tempore glanduloso-pilosa, 
Semina Chirite. 
Tab. In collibus Khasiya ad 2000-4000 ped. alt. eorumque radicibus Assam penetrantibus. In collibus Jaintea et Naga, 
Khasiyw orientem versus. In conyallibus collium supra Chittagong. 
Vidi specimina viva spontanea numerosa. 
The seeds of this plant are very small and like those of other species of Chirita: and Roxburgh was mistaken in describ- 
ing the seeds as winged. I have found the plant in flower in January in Roxburgh’s locality in the Chittagong hills: and Roxburgh’s 
Incarvillea oblongifolia (as R. Brown discovered) is the present plant beyond all doubt of mine. 
Babactes oblongifolia DC IX. 260 is a plant for which there is probably no foundation beyond Decandolle’s implicit trust in 
Roxburgh as to his description of a minute object. Roxburgh has often been supposed mistaken in his descriptions by Wight and Arnott, 
German authors, and others, in their attempts to compel Roxburgh’s descriptions to fit the plants in their ‘hands. Roxburgh is hardly 
ever in error in describing any object of tangible size, but the magnifying means at his disposal were very imperfect, and where the parts 
are minute a broad allowance should always be made. Thus Roxburgh’s descriptions of the pales in the flowers of the Andropogonides 
are very imperfect. 
EXPLICATIO TABULA LXXXI. 
Planta ex specimine Khasiano exsiceato depieta. 
us et explanatus. 
1. Calyx 
Stamina. 
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Pisti uum disco, a facie et a latere visum. 
Pistillam F 
Semen valide auctum. 
