Rhi/nelwtechum.] cvi. gbbneracb*. (C. B. Clarke.) 373 



Sepal* 5, small, narrow. Corolla small, suboampanulate, purple-rose or 

 white; limb obscurely 2-lipped; lobes 5, subequal, round. Stamens 4 

 perfect, attached near tbe base of the corolla, filaments short linear curved ; 

 anther-cells 2, aubparallel below, dehiscent on the inner face, completely 

 confluent at the apex. Disc or very small annular. Ovary sessile, ovoid ; 

 style linear elongate, stigma small ; placentae nearly meeting in the axis of 

 the ovary, there naked, then recurved bearing the ovules. Serry small, 

 globQse, apiculate, glistening white, pulpy. Seeds very small, ellipsoid, 

 smooth. — Species 8, from Bengal through Malaya to the Philippines. 



1. Xtr. parviflorum, Blume Bijd. p. 775 ; leaves broadly oblanoeolate 

 serrate mature glabrate except on the nerves beneath, sepals softly tawny- 

 villous, corolla very small, ovary upwards densely shortly hairy. 



Java ; frequent. 



Vae. ? penangensis ; sepals caudate-acnininate tawny silky in fruit, corolla exceed- 

 ing the sepals. — PENANa. — The material is a stem with flowers and half-ripe fruit, 

 but no leaves, which has been doubtfully referred to M. elUptiaum, from which it 

 differs in tbe indumentum, and the minutely hairy ovary. It is either a large-fld. 

 var. of S. parpiflorum, or a species nearly allied to it. The peduncles are all opposite 

 at tbe nodes ; in the Java S,. parvijlorum the lower leaves and peduncles are fre- 

 quently alternate. 



2. R. ellipticum, J.. BC. Prodr. ix. 285, in note; leaves broadly 

 elliptic or obovate acute minutely dentate mature glabrous above, sepals 

 after flowering patently pilose, corolla ^ in., ovary gla.brous or with very few 

 gland-tipped hairs. Bot. Mag. t. 5832 ; Clarke Coram. S( Ci/rt. Beng. \. 91. 

 Corysanthera elliptica, Wall. Gat. 6411.— Oyrtandraeea, Gtriff. Ic. PI. Asiat. 

 t. 439. 



SiKKiM, Bhotak, Assam, Khabia Mts., Cachae ai^d Silhei; alt. 0-3500 ft. 

 in or near the hills, frequent. 



Stem 2-4 ft., thick, cinnamoneons, tpmentose or woolly at the apex. Leaves 

 opposite, 6J by 3J in. (often larger), base cuneate, somewhat coriaceous, whitened 

 beneatb, above tawny, silkily woolly, afterwards glabrate, beneath densely cinnamo- 

 neons-wooUy, afterwards glabrous except the nerves ; nerves 15-20 pair, subparallel j 

 petiole ^IJ in. Peduncles J-IJ in., often 2-4 together, (or the peduncle divided from 

 the base), when young tavyny-silky, diva.ricately often umbellately divided. Sepals 

 ^ in., naiTovifly lanceolate, mature squamous or scabrous from the thick spreading 

 iiairs, often coroUoid, rose. Corolla rose-^urp^e, minutely hairy without. Serr>/ ^ in. 

 diam. 



Vae. pilosior ; mature leaves above with close short white hairs, sepals patently 

 hispid. — Darjeeling; alt. 3500 ft.,' Clarke. 



Vae. angusta ; leaves narrowly elongate-lanceolate (sometimes 10 by IJ in.), nerves 



10-15 pair. Cacbar ; S.f.S( T., Keenan. Maetaban ; Parish. — Possibly a distinct 



species ; see Sook.f. in SfOp. Mag. t. 5832. 



Vae. Hookeri ; leaves oblong, cymes very dense repeatedly trlchotpmous. — Chitta- 

 gong; Seetakoond, alt. 1000 ft., B.f.S(, T.; Demagri, alt. 250 ft., C^orAe.— Probably 

 only the full form of the preceding variety a^^osia. 



3. K. ▼estitum, £(./. Sc T. ; Clarke Comm,. Sf Cyrt. B.eng. t. 92 ; leaves 

 elliptic acuminate at both ends slightly dentate hii-sute on both su,rfaces, 

 inflorescence very hirsute, corolla |-J in., ovary gl^broijs or nearly so. 

 Corisanthera vegtitai, Griff. Bin. J^otes, 124, n. 426. 



S^KKiM and Bhotan Hihalata, Assam, Khasia Mts., alt. 1-3000 ft., not 

 rare ; 'Griffith, B. f. l( T., &c. 



Stem 3 ft., thick, patently hispid upwards. Leaves opposite, 9 by 2| ir.., hirsute 

 above with long yeUow hairs rising from tubercles, more softly hairy beneath ; petiole 



