372 cvi. GESNERACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Stauranthera. 



broad, breaking up irregularly. The examples from the Chittagong Hills (without 

 flowers) are more hairy, the leaves beneath closely grey-pilose. 



S. ? Brandisii ; leaves alternate, pedicels long fascicled in abbreviated 

 cymes, calyx narrow, capsule small longer than broad. 



PEGU ; Thoungyun, Erandis. 



Stem creeping at the base; innovations rusty-silkily woolly. Leaves 7 by 4 in., 

 shortly acute, very unequal-sided, somewhat thick, glabrate above, rusty-villous 

 beneath ; petiole in. Pedicels in fruit i-f in., glabrous ; bracts f by in., oblong, 

 obtuse, nearly glabrous. Sepals in fruit I by in., elliptic, acute, imbricate, shortly 

 united at the base, nearly glabrous. Capsule | by T |, in., acute, glabrous, papery, in- 

 dehiscent ; placentae deeply intruded, bifid, branched ; plates thin, bearing ovules on 

 both sides. Seeds minute, obovoid, smooth. Probably a new genus, but the flowers 

 are unknown ; the leaves are much like those of Stauranthera umbrosa ; the inflores- 

 cence, bracts, calyx and capsule do not suit Stauranthera, but Hkynchotechum. 



XXIII. IS ANTHERA, Nees. 



Small, nearly simple, undershmbs ; innovations tawny, silkily woolly. 

 Leaves all alternate, broadly oblanceolate, acuminate at both ends. Cymes 

 axillary, short-peduncled, towards the end of the stem ; bracts narrow. 

 Sepals 5, small, narrow. Corolla small, shortly campanulate, obscurely 

 2-lipped ; lobes 5, ovate. Stamens 4 fertile (sometimes 5 fide Nees) ; fila- 

 ments short; anthers small, subquadrate, 2-celled, slits marginal, finally 

 confluent at the subemarginate apex. Disc very small or 0. Ovary ovoid, 

 sessile ; style shorter than the ovary, stigma small simple ; placentas deeply 

 inflexed, then bifid recurved bearing the ovules. Berry small, ovoid or 

 subglobose, fleshy, indehiscent or (fide Gardner) ultimately 2-valved. Seeds 

 very small, ellipsoid, smooth. Species 3, in India, Malaga and the Philip- 

 pines. 



A genus which should perhaps be merged in Rhynchotechum ; differing in having 

 no opposite leaves, a shorter style, and the anthers dehiscent exactly on the 

 margins. 



Z. permollis, Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. 17, p. 82 ; leaves nearly entire, 

 nerves 11-19 pair, cymes short-peduncled dense. Wall. Cat. 9073; DC. 

 Prodr. ix. 279 ; Wight III. t. 159 b, fig. 5, and Ic. t. 1355. I. floribunda, 

 G-ardn. in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 483. Cyrtandra ? lanuginosa, R. Br. 

 in Wall. Cat. 7131. 



S. MADRAS, Heyne-, Nilgherries and Courtallum, Wight, &c. CEYLON, up to 

 4000 ft. alt. j Gardner, Thtvaites, &c. 



Stem 8-12 in. Leaves attaining 9-| by 4 in. ; mature glabrous above, more or less 

 tawny and woolly beneath ; petiole ^-1 in. Peduncles scarcely as long as the petioles ; 

 cymes i-l^ in. diam. Sepals % in., silky, finally nearly glabrous. Corolla l in., 

 white. Berry \ by in. In Wight's figures the anthers are depicted from an 

 example past flower. 



VAE. ? paucinerva; nerves of the leaves 6-8 pair. Mergui ; Griffith (in Herb. 

 Wight). This might be suspected a misplaced ticket; but out of the abundant 

 Ceylon material, none has few-nerved leaves resembling this. 



XXIY. RHYNCHOTECHU1VI, Blume. 



Erect, simple undershrubs ; innovations tawny, silkily woolly. Leaves 

 opposite or lower alternate, usually large. Cymes in the lower axils, many- 

 rid., trichotomous or umbellately compound; bracts narrow, inconspicuous. 



