372 cvi. GESNERACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) [Stauranthera. 



broad, breaking np irregularly. — The examples from tbe Cbittagong Hills (without 

 flowers) are more bftiry, the leaves beneath closely grey-pilose. 



S. ? BraQdisli ; leaves alternate, pedicels long fascicled in abbreviated 

 cymes, calyx narrow, capsule small longer than broad. 



Pegit ; Thonngyun, Srandis. 



Stem creeping at the base ; innovations msty-silkily woolly. Leaves 7 by 4 in., 

 shortly acute, very unequal-sided, somewhat thick, glabrate above, rusty-villous 

 beneath; petiole^ in. Pediceh in frnit J-| in., glabrons ; bracts § by jj^ in., oblong, 

 obtuse, nearly glabrous. Sepals in irnit ^ by } in., elliptic, acute, imbricate, shortly 

 united at the base, nearly glabrous. Capsule | by ^ in., acute, glabrous, papery, in- 

 dehiscent ; plaeentffi deeply intruded, bifid, branched ; plates thin, bearing ovules on 

 both sides. Seeds minute, obovoid, smooth. — Probably a new genus, but the flowers 

 are unknown ; the leaves are much like those of Stauranthera umbrosa ; the inflores- 

 cence, bracts, ealyx and capsule do not suit Stauranthera, but Shynchotechum. 



XXin. ZSAZTTKEBA, Nees. 



Small, nearly simple, undersbmbs ; innovations tawny, silkily woolly. 

 Leaves all alternate, broadly oblanceolate, acnminate at both ends. Cymes 

 axillary, short-peduncled, towards the end of the stem ; bracts narrow. 

 Sepals 5, small, narrow. Corolla small, shortly campanulate, obscnrely 

 2-lipped ; lobes 5, ovate. Stamens 4 fertile (sometimes 5 fide Nees) ; fila- 

 ments short; anthers small, snbqnadrate, 2-celled, slits marginal, finally 

 confluent at the subemarginate apex. Disc very small or 0. Ovary ovoid, 

 sessile ; style shorter than the ovary, stigma small simple ; placentas deeply 

 inflexed, then bifid recurved bearing the ovules. Serry small, ovoid or 

 subglobose, fleshy, indebiscent or (fide Gardner) ultimately 2-valved. Seeds 

 very small, ellipsoid, smooth. — Species 3, in India, Malaya and the Philip- 

 pines. 



A genus which should perhaps be merged in Rhynchotechnm ; difiiering in having 

 no opposite leaves, a shorter style, and the anthers dehiscent exactly on the 

 margins. 



X. permollls, Nees in Trans. Linn. Sofl. 17, p. 82 ; leaves nearly entire, 

 nerves 11-19 pair, cymes short-peduncled dense. Wall. Cat. 9073; DC. 

 Prodr. is. 279 ; Wight HI. 1. 159 b, fig. 5, and Ic. t. 1355. 1. floribunda, 

 G-ardn. in Gale. Joum. Nat. Hist. vi. 483. Cyrtandra ? lanuginosa, S Br. 

 in Wall. Cat. 7131. 



S. Madras, Meyne; Nilgherries and Courtallum, Wight, &c. Cetion, up to 

 4000 ft. alt. ; Gardner, Thwaites, &c. 



Stem 8-12 in. leaves attaining 9 J by 4 in.; mature glabrous above, more or less 

 tawny and woolly beneath ; petiole J-1 in. Peduncles scarcely as long as the petioles ; 

 cymes \-\\ in. diam. Sepals \ in., silky, finally nearly glabrous. Corolla ' in., 

 white. Berry i by J in. — In Wight's figures the anthers are depicted from an 

 example past flower. 



Vak. ? pameineroa; nerves of the leaves 6-8 pair. — Mergui; Griffith (in Herb. 

 Wight).— This might be suspected a misplaced ticket; but out of the abundant 

 Ceylon material, none has few-nerved leaves resembling this. 



XXIV. XtKVMCKOTECHVnC, Blume. 



Erect, simple nndershrubs ; innovations tawny, silkily woolly. Leaves 

 opposite or lower alternate, usually large. Cymes va. the lower axils, many- 

 fld., triohotomous or umbellately compound ; bracts narrow, inconspicuous. 



