KlugiaJ] cvi. GESNERACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) 367 



2. K.. zeylanica, Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 490 ; leaves 

 pubescent, calyx subequally 5- winged lobes longer than tlie tube remarkably 

 acuminate, lower lip of corolla more than in. diam. A. DC. Prodr. ix. 

 276, name only. K. Notoniana, Sot. Mag. t. 4620. Glossanthua zeylanicus, 

 Br. in Benn. PI. Jav. Bar. 121, name only. 



CEYLON ; frequent near Kandy, Gardner, Thwaites, &c. 



Doubtfully distinct from K. Notoniana (ex Thwaites Enum. 208) ; but seems well 

 separable by the long and remarkably acuminate calyx-lobes ; the pubescence also is 

 often stellate. 



3. XL. ampliata ; leaves glabrate, calyx subequally 5-winged lobes as 

 long as the tube lanceolate, bracteoles persistent conspicuous. 



UPPER ASSAM ; Mishmee Hills, near Yen, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3846). 



Stem at least a foot. Leaves 6 by 3 in. ; petiole g 1 iu. Peduncles \ in. ; 

 racemes 3 in., scarcely puberulous; bracteoles in. and upwards; pedicels 0-^ in. 

 Calyx (in fruit) J in., broadly cylindric. Capsule and seeds nearly as of K. 

 Notoniana. Corolla not seen : the species resembles K. Notoniana, but is larger in 

 all its parts. 



XVI. RHYNCHOOLOSSU1VI, Blume. 



Herbs, minutely scabrid-pubescent or nearly glabrous. Leaves alternate, 

 elliptic, acuminate, unequal-sided, cordate on one side of the unequal base, 

 subentire or sinuate. Racemes long, many-fld. ; bracts ; bracteoles minute. 

 Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed half-way down. Corolla-tube cylindric, con- 

 tracted at the mouth ; limb 2-lipped ; upper lip short bifid, lower lip longer, 

 3-lobed. Stamens 2 perfect, included ; anthers connivent, 2-celled ; cells 

 ellipsoid, subparallel, slits ultimately subconnuent at the apex. Ovary 

 ovoid ; style linear, stigma minutely 2-lobed ; placentaa deeply intruded, 

 then bifid into 2 thick plates bearing ovules on all sides. Capsule included, 

 ellipsoid, membranous, loculicidally 2-valved. Seeds narrowly ellipsoid, 

 smooth ; testa minutely reticulated. Species 2, extending from India to the 

 Philippines. 



R. obliquum, Blume Bijd. 741 ; corolla in. long, lower lip ovate 

 2-3 times longer than the upper. DC. Prodr. ix. 274. R. Blumei, DC. 

 I. c. 274. Wulfenia intermedia, Wall. Cat. 408. Loxotis intermedia, 

 Benth. Scroph. Ind. 57. L. obliqua, Br. in Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 102, 

 t. 24. 



TENASSERIM; at Moulmein, WallicJi, Parish, &c. MALACCA; ZippeLDismi-B. 

 Throughout the Malayan Archipelago. 



A succulent, membranous herb, very variable in size ; height 2-20 in. Leaves 

 1-^ in.; petiole -2 in. Racemes 8 in., or sometimes depauperated and 1-3-fld. ; 

 bracteoles T ' 5 - in., filiform. Calyx in., somewhat enlarged in fruit; lobes lanceo- 

 late, sometimes very acuminate, sometimes subtriangular. Corolla blue and white, 

 tube slightly incurved, as though hooded in the throat ; 2 lateral lobes of the lower 

 lip narrow falcate. Capsule iu. diam. Seeds not striated. 



VAR. parviflora ; lower lip of corolla narrower hardly twice as long as the upper. 

 R. obliquum, Wight III. t. 159 bis, fig. 7 ; Clarfa Comm. $ Cyrt. Seng, t. 88. R. 

 /eylanicum, Sot. Mag. t. 1498. Wulfenia obliqua, Wall. Cat. 407, and Tent. Fl. 

 Nep. 45, t. 35. Loxotis obliqua, Benth. Scroph. Ind. tf.Rheede Hort. Mai. ix. 

 t. 80. Throughout India ; alt. 0-5000 ft., in and near the hills, very common ; from 

 Kumaon to Bhotan; in Chota Nagpore and Central India, and m the W. D 

 Peninsula, from Bombay to Ceylou. 



XVII. JERDONXA, Wight. 

 A perennial, stemless herb. Leaves elliptic, reticulate; petiole long. 



