360 cvi. GESNEEACBiB. (C. B. Clarke.) [Chirita. 



long peduncles, short pedicels and linear calyx-segments : as regards size, C. brevipes 

 is often as large as C. speciosa. 



15. C. primulacea, Clarke Comm. Sf Cyrt. Beng. t. 82 ; almost stem- 

 less, softly villous, leaves long-petioled oblong incise-serrate, peduncles 

 numerous short many-fld., calyx divided half-way down densely villous, 

 corolla yellow-white.^Ohirita sp. n. 16, Serb. Ind. Or. H.f. Sf T. 



SiKKiM, alt. 2-3000 ft. ; J. D. S., Anderson, &o. 



Gregarious on steep wet rocks. Leaves pendent, 6 by 2J in. ; petiole 2-6 in. Flowers 

 forming rosulate clusters ; whole inflorescence softly villous. Peduncles ^— J in., 

 1-2-3-tomous ; bracts ^^ in., oblong ; pedicels J in. Calt/x J in., lobes lanceolate 

 acute. Corolla 1 in. and upwards, narrowly funnel-shaped, minutely pubescent 

 without. Ovimy and style densely shortly villous, stigma obliquely peltate, lower 

 margin notched. Capsule 2 in. 



16. C. monophylla, Clarke; leaf solitary sessile cordate-ovate, 

 peduncle hardly any 1-2-fld., calyx divided half-way down brown-hirsute. — 

 Ohirita sp. SO, Serb. Ind. Or. S.f. ^ T. 



Upper Assam ; Mishmee Hills, Oriffilh (Kew Distrib. n. 3832). 



iStem 4-10 in., simple, erect, with sometimes 1 or 2 small scale-lite leaves in its 

 middle, ieof (at flower-time) 1 in., ovate, acute, at fruit-time 7 in. diam., cordate or 

 shortly peltate, glabrous above, villous on the nerves beneath. Peduncle (in the axil 

 of the leaf) scarcely ' in. ; bracts small; pedicels ^-J in. Calyx J in. and upwards, 

 white or purple-spotted ; lobes \-\ in., lanceolate-subulate. Corolla 2 in., narrowly 

 funnel-shaped, glabrous without. Ovary and style glabrous. Capsule 2J in. Seeds 

 of the genus. — From the extraordinary manner in which the solitary leaf continues 

 growing to the period of ripening the capsule, it may be suspected that it is a persis- 

 tent cotyledon. 



17. C. calig'inosa, Clarke; stem long leafy, leaves falcate-elliptic 

 acuminate at both ends pubescent, cymes axillary few-fld. lax, sepals 

 lanceolate much acuminate. 



Peninsula of Malacca ; Klang in Selangore, JSeccari. 



Stem 1 foot, pubescent. Leaves opposite, 6 by 2^ in., minutely toothed ; petiole 

 1 J in. Peduncles O-J in. ; bracts and bracteoles 0, or very early caducous ; pedicels 

 J— 2 in., patently pubescent. Sepals |-1 in., dusky-pubescent. Corolla H in. ; tube 

 upwards villous with brown hairs, limb within (in the dry specimen) lurid-blue. 

 ..iMtters very large, subquadrate, with long hair. Oiiar^ fuscous-pubescent ; stignni 

 unilateral, shortly bifid. Capsule 3 in., curved, dusky-hairy. — The whole plant is 

 dusky ; the habit and inflorescence ally it to the next section, Microchirita ; but the 

 calyx is large. 



Sect. 2. ItElcrocbirita. Calyx about ^ in., divided nearly to the base 

 into nd;rrow segments. Corolla ^-| in., tube narrow below much curved 

 above, mouth very oblique, lower Hp larger. Capsule slender. 



18. C. hamosa^ Sr. in £enn. PL Jav. Sar. 117; leaves ovate or 

 elliptic acute, peduncles connate and adnate to the petiole ebracteolate, 

 capsule slender often much curved. Clarke Comm. 8f Cyrt. Beng. t. 78. 

 Didymocarpus hamosa, Wall. Cat. 788. D. cristata, l>alz. in Sook. Kew 

 Juurn. iii. 225; Balz. Sr Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 134 — Chirita sp. n. 20, Serb. Ind. 

 Or. S.f. SfT. 



Khasia Mts., alt. 1-4000 ft., Wallich, Griffith, S. f. ^ T., &c. Martaban ; 

 Wallioh. MoULMMN; Lolh, Parish. W. Deccait Pbninstjia; Stocks, Law, 

 Dalzell. 



Stem i-20 in., sparingly pilose. Leaves opposite, subequal, 6-1 by 4^ in., base 

 rounded, obscurely crenate, thin, weakly hairy on both surfaces; petiole J-| in. 



