10 THE GESNERACEiE OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



GESNERACE2E. 



Herbs or shrubs, usually pubescent, leaves opposite or 

 apparently alternate, one of each pair being much reduced, 

 simple entire or lobed. Inflorescence axillary, cymose or 

 racemose or panicled, bracts small or large, sepals 5 often 

 connate, corolla tubular or campanulate, more or less distinctly 

 bilabiate, 5 lobed, lobes oblong or rounded. Stamens 4 or 2 

 rudimentary or absent, didynamous when four, filaments linear 

 or filiform, or short and thick anthers linear or oblong, or scuti- 

 form connivent in pairs, 2 celled, cells splitting on the inner 

 face. Disc cylindric or annular or absent, ovary cylindric or 

 oblong. Style slender simple, stigma capitate, cordate or bilobed. 

 Fruit a capsule linear cylindric fusiform, or oblong, splitting dor- 

 sally, seeds very numerous minute, plumed in epiphytic species, 

 elliptic and not plumed in terrestrial species ; or a fleshy berry 

 (Cyrtandra.) 



Species about 600, all tropical species 



with a few in sub- 



tropical climates. 





I. Fruit capsular cylindric. 





A. Seeds plumed. 





Stamens 4 perfect 



1 sEschynanthus. 



Stamens 2 perfect 



2 Agalmyla. 



B. Seeds not plumed. 





Corolla infundibuliform, filaments long filiform. 



Stamens 4 



3 Didissandra 



Stamens 2. 





Stigma entire capitate obovate 



4 Didymocarpus. 



Stigma bifid 



5 Chirita. 



Corolla tube short campanulate. 





Stamens 2. 





Capsule conic 



6 Loxocarpus. 



Capsule cylindric not twisted 



7 Paraboea. 



Capsule cylindric twisted 







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