ffliynehotechum.*] cvi. GESXERACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) 373 



Sepals 5, small, narrow. Corolla small, subcampanulate, purple-rose or 

 white; limb obscurely 2-lipped ; lobes 5, subcqual, round. Stamens 4 

 perfect, attached near the base of the corolla, filaments short linear curved ; 

 anther-cells 2, subparallel below, dehiscent on the inner face, completely 

 confluent at the apex. Disc or very small annular. Ovary sessile, ovoid ; 

 style linear elongate, stigma small ; placentae nearly meeting in the axis of 

 the ovary, there naked, then recurved bearing the ovules. Berry small, 

 globose, apiculate, glistening white, pulpy. Seeds very small, ellipsoid, 

 smooth. Species 8, from Bengal through Malaya to the Philippines. 



1. R. parviflorum, Blume Bijd. p. 775 ; leaves broadly oblanceolate 

 serrate mature glabrate except on the nerves beneath, sepals softly tawny - 

 villous, corolla very small, ovary upwards densely shortly hairy. 



JAVA ; frequent. 



VAE. ? penaiigensis ; sepals caudate-acuminate tawny silky in fruit, corolla exceed- 

 ing the sepals. PENANG>. The material is a stem with flowers and half-ripe fruit, 

 but no leaves, which has been doubtfully referred to R. ellipticum, from which it 

 differs in the indumentum, and the minutely hairy ovary. It is either a large-fld. 

 var. of R. parviflorum, or a species nearly allied to it. The peduncles are all opposite 

 at the nodes ; in the Java R. parviflorum the lower leaves and peduncles are fre- 

 quently alternate. 



2. R. ellipticum, A. DC. Prodr. ix. 285, in note-, leaves broadly 

 elliptic or obovate acute minutely dentate mature glabrous above, sepals 

 after flowering patently pilose,. corolla in?, ovary glabrous or with very few 

 gland-tipped hairs. BoL. Mag. t. 5832 ; Clarice Comm. <$f Ct/rt. Bent), t. 91. 

 Corysanthera elliptica, Wall. Cat. 6411. Cyrtandracea, Griff. Ic. PL Asiat. 

 t. 439. 



SIKKIM, BHOTAN, ASSAM, KHASIA Mis., CACHAE, and SILHET; alt. 0-3500 ft. 

 in or near the hills, frequent. 



Stem 2-4 1 ft., thick, cinuatnoneous, tomentose or woolly at the apex. Leaves 

 opposite,. 6| by 3 in. (often larger), base cuneate, somewhat coriaceous, whitened 

 beneath, above tawny, silkily woolly, afterwards glabrate, beneath densely cinnamo- 

 neous-woolly, afterwards glabrous except the nerves ; nerves 15-20 pair, subparallel ; 

 petiole i-l| in. Peduncles \-\% in., often 2-4 together (or the peduncle divided from 

 the base), when young tawny-silky, divaricately often umbellately divided. Sepals 

 % in., narrowly lanceolate, mature equamous or scabrous from the thick spreading 

 hairs, often corolloid, rose. Corolla rose-purple, minutely hairy without. Berry \ in. 

 diam. 



VAE. pilosior ; mature leaves above with close short white hairs, sepals patently 

 hispid. Darjeeling; alt. 3500 ft., Clarke. 



VAE. angusta leaves narrowly elongate-lanceolate (sometimes 10 by l in.), nerves 

 10-15 pair. Cachar ; H. f. % T., Keenan. MAETABAN ; Parish. Possibly a distinct 

 species ; see HooJc.f. in Sot. Mag. t. 5832. 



VAE. Hookeri ; leaves oblong, cymes very dense repeatedly trichotomous. i 

 song; Seetakoond, alt. 1000 ft., H.f. % T.; Demagri, alt. 250 ft., Clarke. Probably 

 only the full form of the preceding variety angusta. 



3. R. ve&titum. H.f. Sf T. ; Clarke Comm. $ Cyrt. Beng. t. 92 ; leaves 

 elliptic acuminate at both ends slightly dentate hirsute on both surfaces, 

 inflorescence very hirsute, corolla f- in., ovary glabrous or nearly so. 

 Corisanthera vestita, Griff. Itin. Notes, 124, n. 426. 



SIKKIM and BHOTAN HIMALAYA, ASSAM, KHASIA MTS., alt. 1-3000 ft., not 

 rare ; Griffith, H. f. & T., &c. 



Stem 3 ft., thick, patently hispid upwards. Leaves opposite, 9 by 2J ir,., hirsute 

 above with long yellow hairs rising from tubercles, more softly hairy beneath ; petiole 



