366 cvi. GESNERACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) [Ornitholoea. 



recurved enclosing the seeds. Seeds minute, ellipsoid, smooth ; testa striate, 

 reticulate. 



0. Parishii, Clarke. 



TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. 



Stem 7 in., slender, pubescent. Leaves 6 by 2 in., elliptic, acute, base unequal, 

 crenate-serrate, thinly softly hairy on both surfaces ; petiole 2-4 in. Cymes hardly 

 longer than the petiole, solitary from nearly every axil ; bracts in., linear ; pedicels 

 ^-| in., subracemose. Sepals^in., oblong, green, pubescent, persistent, subreflexed in 

 Jruit. Corolla nearly in., personate, pale blue, glabrous except the palate. Capsule 

 % by T !j in., hairy, green, scarcely acute. A complete drawing with full analysis of 

 this plant was sent to Sir W. Hooker by Mr. Parish ; it resembles a Boea but for the 

 corolla and the broader submembranous capsule, which resembles Phyllobwa. 



XV. KXiUG-XA, SMecJit. 



Herbs, rooting at the base, then erect, somewhat succulent. Leaves 

 alternate (or subopposite one of the pair rednped to an auricle), acumi- 

 nate, unequal- sided, cordately aurieled on one side of the unequal base, 

 subentire or sinuate, many-nerved. Racemes terminal or leaf opposed, 

 many-fld. ; bracts ; bracteoles at the base of the pedicels small, linear ; 

 flowers small, short-pedicelled, pendulous. Calyx laxly campanulate, 

 5-angled or -winged, posterior wing often larger produced at the base ; lobes 

 5, shorter or longer than the tube. Corolla-tube cylindric ; limb 2-lipped ; 

 upper lip very small, lower broad, rounded or shortly 3-lobed, blue with 2 

 yellow marks. Stamens 4 perfect, included ; anthers approximated by pairs, 

 2-celled ; cells short, divaricate, early confluent. Ovary ovoid, glabrous ; 

 disc short, cylindric ; style longer than the ovary, glabrous, stigma obliquely 

 dilated obscurely 2-lobed ; placentae deeply inflexed, each divided into 2 

 thick plates, bearing ovules on all sides. Capsule included in the calyx, 

 broadly ellipsoid, loculicidal, 2-valved. Seeds ellipsoid, truncate at -both 

 ends, minutely striate, more or less reticulated. Species 3 in India, 1 in 

 Mexico. 



1. XL. Notoniana, A. DC. Prodr. ix. 276 ; leaves minutely scabrous- 

 pubescent, posterior wing of the calyx larger produced at the base, lobes 

 shorter than the tube, lower lip of the corolla i-f in. diam. Wight Ic. 

 t. 1353, and III. t. 159 Us, fig. 4 ; Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 

 487. Wulfenia Notoniana, Wall., Cat. 409; Tent. Fl. Nep. 46, obs. Gloss- 

 anthus malabaricus, Klein ; Benth. Sc.roph. Ind. 57 ; Wall. Cat. 6394. 

 G. Notoniana, Br. in Benn. PL Jav. Rar. 121. Ehynchoglossum obliquum, 

 Hohenacker, n. 1165. 



S. DECCAN PENINSULA and CEYLON, alt. 2-5000 ft., frequent, Wight, Thwaites, 

 &c. 



Annual, 12-18 in., usually with a line of hairs down the stem on one side. 

 Leaves 5-8 in.; petiole -2 in. Peduncles |-2 in., racemes often 4 in. Calt/x 

 % in., somewhat enlarged in fruit; lobes ^ in., triangular, mucronate. Corolla-tube 

 % in., white; lower lip blue, yellow near the two hooded depressions at its base. 

 Capsule % in. diam. 



VAR. glabra glabrous, leaves more membranous, flowers smaller. K. glabra, 

 Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 489. Ceylon ; alt. 4-5000 ft., Walker, &c. 

 Even the pedicels are glabrous. 



VAR. scabra leaves minutely scabrous not pubescent beneath, flowers capsules 

 and seeds rather smaller than in K. Notoniana type. K. scabra, Dalz. fy Gibs. JBomb. 

 FL 134. Rbyncoglossmn scabrum, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 140. Mts. of S. 

 Deccan Peninsula and Ceylon ; Dalzell, Johnstone, Walker. 



