362 cvi. GBSNBRACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) \_Bceica. 



IX. BCEICA, Clarice. 



Undershrubs. Leaves alternate, petioled. Ci/mes much branched, 

 axillary, lax-fld. ; bracts small. Calyx small, 5-fid or -partite. Corolla 

 small, deeply 5-fid, glabrous, widely gibbous at the base, obscurely 2-lipped ; 

 lobes subequal, obtuse, purple or white. Stamens 4, attached near the base 

 of the corolla-tube, subequal, glabrous, filaments short ; anthers 2-celled, 

 not cohering in pairs ; cells ellipsoid, subparallel, slits curved coalescent at 

 the top. Ovary sessile, narrowly oblong ; style as long as the ovary, 

 glabrous, stigma punctiform; disc 0; placentae deeply inflexed, nearly 

 meeting, then recurved bearing ovules. Capsule shortly linear, straight, 

 beaked by the erect style, loculicidal, and soon septicidal ; placentae 

 recurved, enrolling the seeds. Seeds very small, ellipsoid, smooth. Species 

 5, in Assam, Bhotan and N. Burma. 



1. B. filiformis, Clarke Comm. $ Cyrt, Seng. t. 87 ; innovations 

 nearly glabrous, leaves lanceolate acuminate at both ends mature glabrous, 

 peduncles solitary long, cyme with capillary branches and pedicels nearly 

 glabrous. Rhynehotechum sp.P, Wall. Cat. 9079, in part. Chelone filiformis, 

 Sam. ms. 



ASSAM ; near Goalpara, Hamilton, &c. BHOTAN ; in Upper Singfo everywhere, 

 Griffith. KHASIA MTS. ; Griffith,. CACHAB ; Keenan. 



Branches long, leafy, glabrous to the tip. Leaves 7 by 2 in., minutely dentate ; 

 petiole ^-1 in. Peduncles 2-4 in. ; bracts T ' g in., linear. Calyx -^ in. Corolla ^ in., 

 purple. Capsule in. 



2. B. Griffith!!, Clarke Comm. Sf Cyrt. Seng. t. 86; innovations 

 fulvous-silky, leaves lanceolate acuminate at both ends mature fulvous- 

 villous beneath, peduncles short usually 2-3 fascicled, cyme much branched 

 intricate. Bhynchotechum sp. ?, Wall. Cat. 9079, in part. Chelone rubicunda, 

 Sam. ms. 



ASSAM; Goalpara, Hamilton. 



Leaves 8 by 2 in., denticulate, mature glabrous above. Peduncles 1-2 in., 

 clustered, or peduncle may be considered hardly any branched from the base ; cyme 

 branches divaricate and recurved. Otherwise nearly as . filiformis. 



3. B. fulva, Clarice Comm. Sf Cyrt. Seng. t. 85 ; innovations fulvous- 

 woolly, leaves lanceolate acuminate at both ends fulvous-villous beneath, 

 peduncles solitary elongate, bracts f ulvous-tomentose. Cyrtandracea n. 328, 

 Griff. Itin. Notes, p. 120. 



ASSAM ; Masters. BHOTAN and MISHMEE, alt. 4200 ft., near Chulleree, Griffith. 

 (Kew Distrib. n. 3844). 



Leaves 7 by 2 in., obscurely denticulate, mature glabrous above or fulvous- 

 pubescent along the nerves. Peduncles 4r-Q in., fulvous floccose ; bracts J-J- in., 

 persistent ; pedicels floccose. Flowers and capsules nearly as of B. filiformis. 



4. B. hirsuta, Clarice ; very shaggy, leaves wide-lanceolate acuminate 

 at both ends densely fulvous-shaggy above, peduncles solitary long, cymes 

 fulvous-hirsute. 



UPPEE ASSAM ? ; on the Soondra bank. 



Branches thick, shaggy with yellow hair -^ in. long, dense with leaves. Leaves 

 7 by 2 in., obscurely denticulate, shaggy above with hairs in. long from tubercular 

 bases, villous beneath ; petiole % in. Peduncles 2-4 in. ; bracts ^ in., elliptic or 

 oblong ; cymes as though compound umbels. Sepals in., linear, shaggy. Corolla 

 not seen. Capsule \ in., minutely hairy, 4-valved. 



