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Rhynchotechum.} GESNERACE®. 785 
campanulate calyx ; lobes spreading, plicate-dilated at the sinuses. 
Petals 5, connate in a somewhat 2- ipped corolla ; tube campanu- 
late, spurred or gibbous at the base; lobes subequal. Stamens 4, 
perfect, subdidynamous, filaments short; anthers 2-celled, con- 
nate crosswise in a depressed cone; cells diverging at the base, 
met on the inside by slits, ultimately confluent at the apex. 
0. Carpels connate in a: sessile, subglobose, 1-celled ovary ; 
lhe deeply inflexed, 2-fid, with lobed branches, bearin 
ovules on both sides; style short; stigma broad, margin sub- 
lobed. Fruit a depressed-globose capsule, overtopped by the 
calyx; valves thin, chartaceous, irregularly or transversely 
breaking up. Seeds minute, obovoid, smooth; testa reticu- 
lated. 
1486. SrauranrHERa GRANpIFLoRA Benth. ; F. B. I. iv. 871. 
Chittagong, 
A succulent, pubescent herb. 
677. Rhynchotechum Bl. 
Erect, simple undershrubs; young shoots tawny-silky ; leaves 
F ny- 
Opposite or lower alternate, usually large. lowers in ma 
flowered cymes, 3-chotomous or umbellately fair in the 
lower axils; bracts narrow, inconspicuous. S small, 
spi epals 
narrow, open in bud, slightly connate below. Petals . ‘conn 
in a somewhat 2 2-lipped corolla; tube short, wide-cam ampanulate, 
base subequal; upper lip 2- fekad lower ne 3-lobed ; lobes all 
ee rounded. Stamens 4, didynamous, adnate to base of 
corolla; filaments short, linear, curved ; a hi 2-celled; cells 
subparallel peal dehiscent on the inner face, quite confluent at 
the tips. Disk small, annular. Carpels connate in a sessile, 
ovoid <i pinceettas intruded almost to the axis of the ovary, 
there naked, then reevcved and bearing many ovules; style linear, 
long ; stigma small. Frwit a small, globose, apiculate berry, with 
coat shining epicarp, pulpy within. Seeds very small, ellipsoid, 
ooth. 
tan, i scheitde ELLipticum A. DC. var. Hooxert Clarke; 
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Chittagong. 
An erect undershrub, with thickish stems, 2-4 feet high. 
