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externally white, with a slight tinge of purple, infundibuliform, 

 ventricose above. Limb 5-cleft, bilabiate, upper lip 2-lobed, 

 lobes orbicular, obtuse reflexed, lower lip 3-lobed, lobes about 

 equal, larger than the upper ones, but of the same shape. Sta- 

 mens 2, with very small rudiments of a posterior pair. Filaments 

 short, pubescent, curved. Anthers subreniform, 1 -celled, adhering 

 face to face, glabrous. Ovary free, seated in a very shallow annular 

 disk, siliquose, glandular-pubescent, 1- celled, with two parietal pla- 

 centae. Style filiform, glabrous, persistent. Stigma obliquely subca- 

 pitate, depressed. Capsule siliquose, slender, pubescent, terite, crown- 

 ed by the persistent style, about 9 lines long, 1 -celled, 2-valved, 

 with a loculicidal dehiscence, the valves bearing the placenta? along 

 their middle. Seeds numerous, elliptical, pendulous. Testa brown, 

 pitted. 



Obser. — This species, although nearly related to the 

 former, is readily distinguished by its smaller size in all its 

 parts, the leaves being destitute of woolly tomentum, the 

 more simple inflorescence, and the much smaller size of the 

 abortive filaments. 



CHIRITA MOON1I, Gardn. 



C. caule sufTruticoso, ramoso, ramis teretibus villoso-to- 

 mentosis, foliis quaternis, petiolatis, oblongo-lanceolatis, basi 

 acutis, apice acutis vel subacuminatis, minute, glanduloso- 

 dentatis, supra villoso-tomentosis infra adpresse sericeo-villo- 

 tomentosis, pedicellis axillaribus solitariis, petiolo duplo- 

 longioribus, lobis calycinis lineari-lanceolatis, longe acumina- 

 tis, carinatis, corolla magna extus pubescente. 



Martynia lanceolata, Moon, Cat. Ceylon Plants, p. 45. 



Hab. — Four Korles, Moon. On rocks near the summit 

 of the Hantane range, near Kandy. Fl. during the rains. 



Descr. — Suffruticose, 2-3 feet high, branched. Branches round, 

 villously tomentose. Leaves verticillate, quaternate, petiolate, oblong- 



