368 cvi. GESXERACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) \Jerdonia. 



Scapes slender, few-fld. ; bracts small. Sepals 5, lanceolate. Corolla pale 

 lilac with red lines ; tube elongate, swollen upwards ; limb oblique, 2-lipped; 

 lobes 5, ovate, obtuse, nearly equal. Stamens 4 perfect ; filaments short, 

 dilated upwards, 2 spurred ; anthers connivent, cohering by their apices, 

 2-celled ; cells ellipsoid, divergent at base, early divaricate and confluent. 

 Ovary ovoid ; disc annular ; style linear, stigma small scarcely 2-lobed ; 

 placentae 2-partite into 2 flat plates bearing ovules on both faces. 

 Capsule Broadly ovoid, acute, loculicidally 2-valved; placentae scarcely 

 altered in fruit. Seeds funicled, ellipsoid, suburnbonate at the apex, smooth, 

 testa striate coarsely reticulate. 



J. indica, Wight Ic. t. 1352, and III. t. 159 bis, fig. 2; Sot. Mag. 

 t. 5814. 



S. DECCAN PENINSULA ; Nilgherry and Anamally Hills, and Boliinputty near 

 Coimbatore, Wight. 



Stem 2 in., thick, creeping, upwards (with the innovations) rufous -hirsute or 

 woolly. Leaves alternate, dense, 2 by 2 in., obtuse at both ends, entire, rufous-ciliate 

 on the margin, mature glabrate above, rusty puberulous on the nerves beneath ; petiole 

 2-4 in. Scapes 2-4 in., rufous-pilose; bracts -^ in., sublinear; pedicels ^-^ in., in 

 fruit somewhat thickened upwards. Sepals -j 5 in., rusty puberulous. Corolla ^ in. ; 

 lobes in. diain. Filaments sparsely pilose. Ovary and style glabrous. Capsule 

 iu. long and broad. 



XVIII. LEPTOBCEA, Senth. 



Shrubs. Leaves opposite, often crowded. Peduncles filiform, lax, few- 

 fld. ; bracts small, linear ; pedicels capillary. Calyx small, 5-tid. Corolla 

 small, campanulate, slightly gibbous at the base, white ; limb obscurely 

 2-lipped; lobes 5, subequal, round. Stamens 4 perfect, included ; anther- 

 cells ellipsoid, divergent at the base, ultimately confluent at the apex. 

 Ovary sessile, ellipsoid ; disc ; style linear, stigma small subcapitate ; 

 placentae deeply intruded, of 2 plates, bearing ovules on both faces. Capsule 

 linear or oblong, septicidally 2-valved ; margins of the valves inflexed 

 bearing the placentae, valves soon or late 2-partite. Seeds minute, ellipsoid, 

 smooth. Species 2, in N". and E. Bengal. 



1. Zi. multiflora, Gamble Darjeeling List, 58 ; leaves elliptic acumi- 

 nate at both ends pubescent, capsule f in. linear 2-valved late or scarcely at 

 all 4-valved. Championia multiflora, Clarke Comm. fy Cyrt. Seng. t. 68. 

 Cyrtandracea n. 100, Griff. Itin. Notes, p. 107. 



SIKKIM and BHOTAN, alt. 3000 ft., frequent ; Griffith, J. D. H., &c. ASSAM ; 

 Griffith. KHASIA MTS.; alt. 2000 ft., frequent. 



A shrub, 2-6 ft. Leaves attaining 4 by 1^ in., minutely crenulate, hairy on both 

 surfaces or at least on the nerves beneath ; petiole ^-f in. ' Peduncles -1 in., 

 often several fascicled on shortened lateral branches, 1-5-fld., pubescent; bracts | in., 

 linear; pedicels ^-f in. Calyx ^ in., persistent; teeth linear, pubescent. Corolla 

 in., glabrous. Ovary minutely glandular; style glabrous, about as long as the 

 ovary. Capsule glabrous, acute, beaked by the style ; valves 2, often remaining 

 attached at the apex or on one side (iu the manner of Loxocarpus), ultimately again 

 2-partite. 



2. L. glabra ; glabrous, leaves elliptic acuminate at both ends, 

 capsule ^ in. oblong 2-valved nearly from the first 4-valved. Cheilosandra 

 leptopus, Griff', ms. ; Senth. in Gen. PI. ii. 1025. 



UPPER ASSAM ; Mishmee Hills, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3843). 



A shrub, closely resembling L. pubescens, but altogether glabrous. Petioles 



