100 xCTii. GBNTiANAOBJi. (0. B. Clarke.) [Hopjpea. 



4. KOFFEA, mild. 



Small, much branched, glabrous herbs. Leaves small, sessile, ovate or 

 elliptic. Cymes 2-3-chotomou3, flowers sessile or short-pedicelled. Cdyx 

 campamilate ; lobes 4, ovate, acuminate. Corolla-tvhe subglobose or elongate ; 

 lobes 4, short or long, more or less unequal. Stamens 1 perfect, 3 barren, 

 attached in the coroUa-thioat, filaments linear short ; anthers ovate, dehiscing 

 intrprsely by two longitudinal slits ; barren anthers similar but much smaller, 

 sometimes 0. Ovm-y 1-celled, placentae not far intruded ; style short, stigma 

 subentire. Capsule globose or ellipsoid, carpels separating. Seeds very many, 

 minute, nearly black, obscurely reticulated. — Species 2, Indian. 



1. K. dlcliotoina, WiUd. in Oes. Nat. Fr. Berl. Neue Schrift. iii. 435 ; 

 divaricately densely branched often from near the base, corolla ventricose shorter 

 than the calyx both in flower and fruit, lobes short triangular, capsule sub- 

 globose. Hayne Termin. Bat. t. SO, Jiff. 3. Hoppea dichotoma, Vahl Enum. i. 

 3. Pladera pusilla, Roxh. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey Sr Wall, i, 419 ; Cfriseh. in DC. 

 Prodr. ix. 63 ; Clarke in Journ. lAnn. Soc. xiv. 429. Oanscora pusilla, Roem. 

 ^ Sch. Syst. iii. ; Mant. 230 {excl. syn. Exacum sessile) ; Wall. Cat. 4366 ; D. 

 J)on in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 630. Cicendia Roxburghii, Gfriseb. Gentian. 160 ; 

 ThoTns. Sf Bacon in JSook. Land. Journ. iv. 637, t. 22. 



Throughout India, alt. 0-3000 ft.; very common; from the Punjab and Assam 

 to Belgaum and Central India, the Gircars, and Chittagong. 



Stem 1-5 in., quadrangular. Leaves ^ in., ovate. Cymes dense or lax. Calys 

 ^in. ; lobes scarious, marginal nerve green. Corolla ■white, tube ^ in., ventricose ; 

 in fruit -wider up-wards with the lobes incurved, overtopped by the acute calyx-teeth. 

 Stigma clavate, obscurely 2-fid. 



2. K. fasti^iata, Clarke ; corymbose upwards with ascending branches, 

 corolla tubular lobes oblong overtopping the calyx both in flower and fruit, 

 capsule ellipsoid. Cicendia fastigiata, Gh-iseb. Gentian. 158, and in DC. Prodr. 

 ix. 62. Pladera fastigiata, Arnott in Serb. Wight ; Clarke in Jawm. lAnn. 

 Soc. xiv. 429. P. pusilla, Thwaites Enum. 204, not of Roxb. Exacum ? con- 

 cinnum, Miq. in PI. Sohenack. n. 581. 



S. Deocan Peninsula, Mysore and Courtallum, Wight ; Mangalore, Hohenacker, 

 MoutMBiN ; Lobb, Cetlon, frequent. 



Stem 2-6 in., -winged. Leaves J in., ovate. Flowers fastigiate. Cali/x J in. ; 

 lobes scarious with a marginal nerve. CoroUa-ttibe i in. long, oblong, in fruit nar- 

 ro-wed in the throat -with the lobes erect, much overtopping the calyx-teeth. Stigma 

 slightly clavate, subentire. Seed^ very small, but twice as large as those of H. dicho- 

 toma. — The type of Cicendia fastigiata, Griseb. is Macrae's Ceylon plant, which 

 Grisebaeh (Gentian. 159) says has 4 perfect stamens, but it has 1 only. The corolla 

 in the present species is totally unlike that of Hojppea dichotoma, and the species so 

 far agrees with Cicendia. 



5. ENZCOSTEIKtA, BluTne. 



A glabrous herb, erect, or decumbent branched. Leaves sessile, ovate- 

 lanceolate or Unear, Flowers small, in sessile axiUary clusters. Calyx deeply 

 5-fid ; segments not keeled. Corolla tubular funnel-shaped ; lobes 6, spreading, 

 white or bluish. Stamens 5, on the upper part of the corolla-tube, filaments 

 shortly linear with minute scales at their base ; anthers oblong, acute, included, 

 Ovajy l-ceUed, placentae not far intruded ; style short, linear, stigma capitate. 

 Capsule ellipsoid, carpels separating. Seeds many, subglobose, reticulated. 



