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TAB. LXXXII. 
CHIRITA PRIMULACEA. 
ll. Chirita primulacea. sp. nov. No. 267 Chirita T. Anderson in herb Didymocarpus No. 16 Hook. f. et Th. in Herb. 
Acaulis. Folia longe petiolata oblonga aut lanceolata alte irregulariterque duplicato-crenato-serrata, utrinque 
molliter hirsuta. Pedunculi perplures 1-2-divisi cum bracteis angustis molliter hirsuti. Calyx (extus intusque) molliter 
hirsutus ad mediam partem vel ultra divisus segmentis oblongo-lanccolatis. Corolla majuscula molliter pilosa, alba leviter 
luteo-suffusa, tubo prope medium haud contracto. Ovarium cum stylo molliter hirsutum. Capsula 3-4 uncias longa, pilosa. 
Hab. In convallibus Himalaya provincie Sikkim ad 1500-7000 ped. alt. ad rupes madidas verticales rosulariter adfixa. 
Floret Maio, aliis pluribus Didymocarpeis precocius. 
Hee species ex beato T. Anderson Chirita, ex cl. Hook. f. et Th. Didymocarpus. Stigma inter stigmata typica Chirita 
atque Didymocarpi fere intermedium yvidetur : flores numerosissimi ad inflorescentiam Didymocarpi spectant at alii characteres (praser- 
tim forma corolle) Chiratam indicant. 
Vidi specimina viva spontanea. 
The distinction between Chirita and Didymocarpus is arbitrary. The reason for maintaining the two genera is because Ist., 
they comprise a large series of species for splitting which into two sections no better characters than those at present assigned to the 
genera Chirita and Didymocarpus have as yet been found. 2nd, in running two long established large genera together, a serious amount 
of confusion is apt to arise where a species of each genus has the same specific name. 
Thus the old Kyllingia umbellata has become Cyperus umbellatus, but there has been a totally different plant known for 
sixty years as Cyperus umbellatus, and an abominable confusion has thus arisen. 
The same argument holds against throwing Paspalum, Digitaria &c. into the already crowded Panicum, but it would of 
course be quite different if the botanist who pointed out the arbitrariness of the distinctions between Digitaria and Panicum (which we 
were all tolerably well aware of before) had proposed new sections founded on better defined characters, 
EXPLICATIO TABULA LXXxXIl. 
Planta ex specimine Sikkimensi recente depicta. 
1. Pistillum, corolla diseoque pentagono amotis, calyce fisso: a Gopal Chandra depictum, 
2 Corolla fissa et explanata a Gopal Chandra depicta, 
