ChiritaJ] cvi. GESXERACRE. (C. B. Clarke.) 361 



Peduncles (their free portion) O-f in., hispidnlous. Sepals | in., sublinoar, patently 

 hairy. Corolla scarcely in. ; tube slender, nearly white, mouth pale blue or some- 

 what rose. Stigma distinctly bifid. Capsule 1-3 in. 



VAE. unifolia; stem ^-L in., with one leaf at the top and 5-1 flowers. Chirita 

 sp. n. 31, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f.fy T. Khasia Mts., alt. 500 ft., on the river hank near 

 Terrya Ghaut, J. D. H. Moulmein ; Thoungyne, Lobb. Extremely unlike the 

 ordinary form of C. hamosa, hut except in its minute size no distinction can be found. 

 The single leaf is perhaps a persistent cotyledon, carried up as in some other species of 

 the Order ; and the plant may be specifically distinct. 



VII. PXiATYSTCBXZKA, Wall. 



A small, slender herb. Leaf 1 (a persistent cotyledon ?) sessile, orbicular- 

 cordate, membranous, hairy. Peduncle from the leaf-axil, slender, few-fld. ; 

 bracts very small, sublinear. Cali/x wide-campanulate, deeply 5-fid. 

 Corolla violet, subrotate, deeply 2-lipped ; lips wide-spreading, upper 

 shortly bifid, lower deeply 3-lobed ; lobes all wide-oblong, obtuse. Stamens 

 4 perfect, filaments short, curved ; anthers cohering by their tips, 2-celled ; 

 cells round, divaricate, early confluent, dehiscing by a single short slit. 

 Ovary ovoid ; disc annular ; style linear, much longer than the ovary, 

 stigma small; placentae deeply intruded, then bifid, branches recurved, 

 bearing ovules on their margins on both faces. Capsule narrowly oblong, 

 nearly as in Didymocarpus. 



P. violoides, Wall. Cat. 4410, and PL As. Ear. ii. 42, t. 151 ; Eoyh 

 III. 294, t. 71, fig. 1; DC. Prodr. ix. 279; Wight III. t. 159 bis, fig. 10. 

 P. majus, Wall. Cat. 4411, and PL As. Ear. ii. 42, in obs. 



TEMPERATE W. HIMALAYA, alt. 6-9000 ft. - r from Nepal, Wallich, to Simla, 

 Strachey Sf Winterbottom. 



Stem 2|-5 in., pubescent. Leaf\\-^\ in., subacute, coarsely serrate, hairy above, 

 glabrous beneath, pubescent on the nerves. Peduncle \-\\ in., 1-11-fid. ; bracts in., 

 deciduous; cyme usually tricbotomous, lateral branches 3-fld..; pedicels 0- in. 

 Sepals ^ in., subovate, puberulous. Corolla ^ in., lips.of equal length. Capsule only 

 known from Royle's figure. 

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VIII. CHAIWCPIONIA, Gardn. 



A low, perennial, erect, hairy herb. Leaves opposite, subequal, petioled. 

 Peduncles slender ; bracts small ; cymes lax ; flowers white. Sepals 5, small, 

 narrow. Corolla-tube short ; limb spreading, subequally 4-lobed. Stamens 

 4 perfect, filaments short, thick; anther-cells ellipsoid, nearly parallel, slits 

 confluent at their apex.. Ovary sessile, oblong ; disc ; style linear, stigma 

 subcapitate; placentas of two plane plates bearing ovules on both faces 

 Capsule oblong, acute, loculicidally 2-valved, valves soon 2-partite ; placentae 

 in fruit hardly altered. Seeds minute, ellipsoid, subacute at each end, 

 smooth, minutely striate and reticulated. 



C. reticulata, Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi..485 ; leaves oblong 

 subentire, nerves slender close together. 



CEYLON, alt. 3000 ft., frequent. 



Stem 2-6 in., undivided, duskily villous upwards. Leaves 4 by Ii in., obtuse or 

 shortly acute, base cuneate, thinly strigose above, dusky-villous on the nerves beneath ; 

 petiole i in. Peduncles 2-3 in./3-lO-fld., hairy; bracts in. linear ; pedicels $-4 in., 

 .lender. Sepal* A in, linear, hairy. CoroUaMe T ' 5 in.; lobes i in., widely oblong, 

 glabrous. Ovary and style glabrous. Capsule i by T ^ in.; placentae narrower than 

 the valves, not recurved. 



