356 ovi. GESXERACEJS. (C. B. Clarke.) [Chirita. 



lobes acute. Corona tubular-funnel-shaped or ventricose, middle-sized or large 

 (except in C. hamosd) ; tube not very narrow below nor gibbous ; limb 2-lipped, 

 lobes 5, rounded. Stamens 2 perfect, 2-3 barren, filaments flattened, genicu- 

 late ; anthers usually applied to the stigma ; cells 2, divaricate, ovate, of tea 

 confluent. Ovary linear ; style short or long, stigma (when young) oblique pel- 

 tate, notched on the lower margin; in age upper margin usually produced 

 oblong bifid ; placentae inflexed to the axis, then revolute bearing the ovules. 

 Capsule elongate linear (smaller, slender in C. kamosa), sessile, loculicidally 

 2-valved to the base, valves 2-partite in the next season. Seeds ellipsoid, 

 smooth, sometimes with a minute boss or process at the end ; testa often 

 striated, reticulate. Species 25, mainly Indian ; a few W. Malayan and 

 Chinese. 



The foregoing character does not include the Malayan and Chinese species. The 

 genus, even thus narrowly defined, is with difficulty distinguished from Didymocarpus. 

 The stigma is said to be subentire in Didymocarpus, bifid in Chirita, which is roughly 

 true ; in Chirita it varies greatly with age. 



Sect. 1. Euchirita. Calyx large or middle-sized. Corolla 1^ in. or 

 more, funnel-shaped, tubular towards the base, mouth not very oblique nor 

 unequally lipped. Capsule more than 2 in. long, not stalked. 



* Species of Ceylon. 



1. C. Ztfoonii, Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 479 ; leaves 

 whorled lanceolate or elliptic silky villous on both surfaces, peduncles scat- 

 tered 1-fld., calyx sub-5-partite silky villous, corolla 2 in. and upwards. 

 JSot. Mag. t. 4405. Martynia lanceolata, Moon Cat. PL Ceyl. 45. 



CRYLON; Hantam, alt. 4000 ft., Thwaites, Wight, &c. 



Stem 2-3 ft., branched, villous upwards. Leaves 4 or 3 in a whorl, 5 by 2 in., 

 minutely denticulate, densely softly hairy, and shining brown in the dried specimens ; 

 petiole in. Peduncles ^-2 in.; bracts 2, small, deciduous near their middle. Sepals 

 in. and upwards, narrowly lanceolate. Corolla widely ventricose, mouth 2 in. 

 across, minutely hairy without, purple, yellow-striped within. Filaments (fertile and 

 sterile) villous at the top. Ovary glabrous ; stigma obliquely 1-sided, shortly bifid. 

 Capsule 4 in. and upwards. 



2. C. Walkeri, Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 480; leaves 

 ternate or -opposite elliptic acuminate or lanceolate villous on both surfaces, 

 peduncles 5-1-fld., calyx sub-5-partite villous, corolla 1 in. C. Walkeriae, 

 Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4327. 



CEYLON ; Wallcer. 



Stem 2 ft., branched, villous upwards. Leaves 5 by 2 in., as of C. Moonii, bufc 

 less densely hairy ; petiole ^-H iu. Peduncles %-2 in., once or twice dichotomous, 

 rarely 1-fld. ; bracts small. Calyx ^-f in. Capsule 2J-5 in. Closely allied to C. 

 Moonii, which differs in the 1-fld. peduncles and larger corolla. 



VAB. parviflora; calyx \-% in., corolla 1 in., capsule 2 in. Var. , Thwaites 

 Enum. 207. Ceylon ; Thwaites. 



3. C. zeylanica, Hook. Sot. Mag. t. 4182 ; leaves opposite ovate or 

 elliptic acuminate strigose on both surfaces, peduncles many-fld., calyx sub- 

 5-partite glabrous, corolla 1 in. C. communis, Gardn. in Calc. Journ. 

 Nat. Hist. vi. 481. 



CEYLON ; up to 5000 ft. alt. common ; Gardner, &c. 



Stem 18 in., branched, strigose upwards. Leaves 3 by 2 in. ovate, or 4| by 2 in. 

 elliptic, minutely denticulate, sparsely strigose; nerves 9 pair, hirsute beneath; 



