Order 86. Gesneracece. 223 



the stem, leaves large oval acute, slightly rough, flowers in a 

 one-sided drooping raceme, dull blue, lower lip of corolla broad, 

 bract filiform longer than the pedicel. 



This and K. scalra, which H. makes only a variety, seemed to me 

 very different. K. scabra is much rougher, the leaves not so un- 

 equal at the base, flowers of a brighter blue, lower lip of corolla 

 with an acute triangular apex. This I had at Kharepatan, and I 

 believe at other places : D. in the Wari country. Both grow out of 

 rocks and walls. 



Chirita, leaves often unequal, stamens 2 perfect and 2 or 3 

 barren, filaments flattened, bent, the anthers usually applied to 

 the oblique stigma. * C. Itamosa (Didymo carpus cristatus, D.), herba- 

 ceous, erect, fleshy, leaves large, broad ovate cordate, peduncles 

 connate with the petiole, flowers white, the mouth of corolla 

 oblique and slightly coloured, capsule long, slender, curved. Kocks 

 near Parwar Ghaut (-ZX). Epithema, succulent herbs, flowers 

 in racemes, which have each one large one-sided hooded bract, 

 stamens 2 perfect, anthers cohering. * E. cernuosum (E. zeylanica 

 D.), hairy, lower leaves alternate petioled, upper opposite, sessile, 

 ovate cordate, spikes of small blue or white flowers, bracts dentate. 

 S. Ghauts (D.). 



ORDER 87. BIGNONIACE^l. Trumpet flowers. 



Trees with opposite leaves, generally much divided and very 

 large, flowers showy irregular, calyx bell-shaped, 2 to 5-lobed, 

 corolla broad-tubular, two-lipped, 5-lobed, stamens didynamous 

 (except Oroxylum) on the corolla, style long smooth, stigma of 

 2 elliptic lobes, capsule often podlike, generally very large, 

 seeds winged. 



This is a tropical order, differing from the other didynamous orders 

 in the species being all trees and remarkable for the size of their 

 leaves, flowers, and fruit. Their trumpet-shaped flowers "are the 

 glory of the places they inhabit." figuier. 



1. OROXYLUM. Stamens 5, leaves twice pinnate, corolla 

 lobes about equal, round, crisped and toothed, capsule linear, 

 compressed, 2-valved, seeds thin, discoid winged all round 

 except at the base. 



2. DOLICHANDRONE. Leaves pinnate, calyx spathaceous, 

 cleft to the base on one side, corolla lobes about equal, seeds 

 broadly winged at the sides. 



3. HETEROPHRAGMA. Leaves pinnate, calyx ovoid, irre- 

 gularly lobed, corolla lobes about equal, seeds winged at the 

 sides. 



4. STEREOSPERMUM. Leaves once or twice pinnate, calyx 



