356 cvi. GESNERAokas. (C. B. Clarke.) [Chirita. 



lobes acute. Cuj-oWatubular-funnel-shaped or Tentricose, middle-sized or large 

 (except in C hamosa) ; tube not very narrow below nor gibbous ; limb 2-lipped, 

 lobes 5, rounded. Stamens 2 perfect, 2-3 barren, filaments flattened, genicu- 

 late ; anthers usually applied to the stigma ; cells 2, divaricate, ovate, often 

 confluent. Ovary linear ; style short or long, stigma (when young) oblique pel- 

 tate, notched on the lower margin ; in age upper margin usually produced 

 oblong bifid ; placentae inflexed to the axis, then revolute bearing the ovules. 

 Capsule elongate linear (smaller, slender in 0. hamosa), sessile, loculicidally 

 2-valved to the base, valves 2-partite in the next season. Seeds ellipsoid, 

 smooth, sometimes with a minute boss or process at the end ; testa often 

 striated, reticulate. — Species 25, mainly Indian ; a few W. Malayan and 

 Chinese. 



The foregoing character does not include the Malayan and Chinese species. The 

 genus, even thus narrowly defined, is with difficulty distinguished from Didt/mocarpus. 

 The stigma is said to be subeutlre in Didt/mocarpus, bifid in Chirita, which is roughly 

 true ; in Chirita it varies greatly with age. 



Sect. 1. Euchirita. Calyx large or middle-sized. Corolla Ij in. or 

 more, funnel-shaped, tubular towg,rds the base, mouth not very oblique nor 

 unequally lipped. Capsule more than 2 in. long, not stalked. 



* Species of Ceylon. 



1. C. nCoonli, Gardn. in Calc. Joum. Nat. Eist. vi. 479 ; leaves 

 whorled lanceolate or elliptio silky villous on both surfaces, peduncles scat- 

 tered 1-fld., calyx sub-5-partite silky villous, corolla 2J in. and upwards.- 

 Bot. Mag. t. 4405. Martynialanceolata, Moon Cat. JPl. Ceyl. 45. 



Crtlon ; Hantam, alt. 4000 ft., Thwaites, Wight, &c. 



Stem 2-3 ft., branched, villous upwards. Leaves 4 or 3 in a whorl, 5 by 2 in., 

 minutely denticulate, densely softly hairy, and shining brown in the dried specimens ; 

 petiole i in. Peduncles J-2 in. ; bracts 2, small, deciduons near their middle. Sepals 

 I in. and upwards, narrowly lanceolate. Corolla widely ventricose, mouth 2 in. 

 across, minutely hairy without, purple, yellow-striped within. Filaments (fertile and 

 sterile) villous at the top. Ovary glabrous ; stigma obUquely 1-sided, shortly bifid. 

 Capsule 4 in. and upwards. 



2. C. Walkeri, Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 480; leaves 

 ternate or opposite elliptic acuminate or lanceolate villous on both surfaces, 

 peduncles 5-1-fld., calyx sub-5-partite villous, corolla Ij in. C. Walkeriae, 

 Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4327. 



Cbylon ; Walker. 



Stem 2 ft., branched, villous upwards. Leaves 5 by 2 in., as of C. Moonii, but 

 less densely hairy ; petiole ^-1\ hi. Peduncles J-2 in., once or twice dicbotomous, 

 rarely 1-fld.; bracts small. Cali/x i-| in. Capsule 2i-5 in. — Closely allied to C. 

 Moonii, which differs in the 1-fld. peduncles and larger corolla. 



Vab. parviflora; calyx J-J in., corolla 1 in., capsule 2 in. Var. P, Thwaites 

 .BnttM. 207.— Ceylon ; Thwaites. 



3. C. zeylanica, .Sbo^. Bot. Mag. t. 4182; leaves opposite ovate or 

 elliptic acuminate strigose on both surfaces, peduncles many-fid., calyx sub- 

 5-partite glabrous, corolla 1 in. C. communis, Gardn. in Calc. Journ. 

 Nat. Mist. vi. 481. 



Cbtlon ; up to 5000 ft. alt. common ; Gardner, &c. 



Stem 18 in., branched, strigose upwards. Leaves 3 by 2 in. ovate, or 4^ by 2 in. 

 elliptic, minutely denticulate, sparsely strigose; nerves 9 pair, hirsute beneath; 



