Ct/rtandromoea.] cvi. GESNERACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 371 



3. C. cymulosa, Clarke; leaves elliptic acuminate petioled, cymes 

 small 1-5-fld. subsessile, calyx nearly glabrous, capsule breaking up irregu- 

 larly. 



TENASSERIM ; at Mergui, Griffith, Heifer (Kew Distrib. n. 3827). 



Leaves 8 by 3J in., nearly glabrous, narrowed at the b;ise ; nerves 10 pair; petiole 

 i- in. Cymes scarcely f in., appearing sessile on weak axillary spurs, pubescent. Other- 

 wise as C. decurrens, from which it differs in the petioled, much less-nerved leaves. 



4. C. grandiflora, Clarke; leaves petioled elliptic acuminate, 

 peduncles 1-2-fid. with, the pedicels nearly 1 in., flowering calyx J in. 

 minutely pubescent. 



TENASSEKIM ; at Moulmein, Lolb. 



Branch terete, shortly fulvous-pubescent. Leaves 6 by 2 in., both ends much 

 acuminate, serrate, minutely pubescent ; nerves 9 pair ; petiole f in. Corolla 2\ in. 

 Capsule (and fruit-calyx) as of C. decurrens, not perfectly ripe, so that it is not 

 certain whether it opens by valves. 



XXII. STAURANTHERA, Benth. 



Low, succulent, pubescent herbs. Leaves alternate, or opposite one of 

 each pair reduced to a small auricle, falcate, elliptic, acuminate, very 

 unequal-sided. Cymes peduncled, lax, subracemose ; bracts small. Calyx 

 wide-campanulate ; lobes 5, wide-spreading, subplicate. Corolla campanu- 

 late, spurred or gibbous at the base, somewhat 2-lipped ; lobes 5, subequal. 

 Stamens 4 perfect, filaments short ; anthers 2-celled, cohering crosswise into 

 a depressed cone ; cells diverging at the base, dehiscing on the inner face by 

 slits ultimately confluent at the apex. Disc 0. Ovary sessile, subglobose ; 

 style short, stigma broad, margin sublobed ; placentae deeply inflexed, bifid, 

 branches lobed, bearing ovules on both sides. Capsule depressed-globose, 

 overtopped by the calyx, papery, transversely or irregularly breaking up. 

 Seeds minute, obovoid, smooth ; testa reticulated, cells often spiral. Species 

 4, from Assam and Chittagong to Java and Celebes. 



1. S. umbrosa, Clarke Comm. Sf Cyrt. Sena. t. 89 ; leaves alternate, 

 corolla - in. gibbous not spurred at the base. Cyananthus umbrosa, 

 Griff. NotuL iv. 154, and Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 437. 



UPPER ASSAM; Gubroo Hills, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3845). DISTRIB. Ava. 



Stem 4-12 in., occasionally branched, dusky-pubescent. Leaves attaining 8 by 3 

 in., obscurely crenate, glabrate above, fuscous-pubescent (at least on the nerves) 

 beneath; petiole |- in. Peduncles >f-H in.; cymes 2-3 in., dusky-pubescent; 

 pedicels - in. Calyx %-% in. diam., lobed half-way down ; lobes triangular. Corolla 

 white, with blue marks, yellow near the base within. Ovary pubescent. Capsule 

 circumsciss near the base (Griffith) ; placentae fungose (Griffith), but are in the dried 

 state thin. 



2. S. g randiflora, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 57 (by misprint grandifolia) ; 

 leaves opposite, corolla 1 in. spurred at the base. S. grandifolia, Br. in 

 Benn. PL Jav. Rar. 121 ; DC. Prodr. ix. 278; Bot. Mag. t. 5409 ; Clarice 

 Comm. <$f Cyrt. Beng. t. 89 Us. Glossanthus grandiflorus, Benth. in Wall. 

 Cat. 6395. 



PENANG; Wallich. CHITTA GONG HILLS ; Clarice. MOFLMBIN ; Parish. 



Stem 4-12 in., dusky-pubescent. Leaves attaining 10 by 4 in., obscurely 

 toothed, mature nearly glabrate except on the nerves beneath ; petiole -1 in. In- 

 florescence and calyx nearly as in S. umbrosa. Corolla blue, with yellow marks in 

 the tube within ; spur & in. Ovary thinly pubescent or glabrous. Cavsule in. 



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