THE GESNERACE^ OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 11 



Calyx 5 lobed 8 Boea. 



Calyx 3 lobed 9 Phylloboea. 



Stamens 4 10 Boeica. 



II. Capsule ovoid or ellipsoid. 



Stamens 2. 



Sepals free to base 11 Orchadocarpa. 



Calyx .campanulate, half lobed 12 Rhyncoglossum. 



Stamens 4. 



Capsule circumsciss 13 Epithema. 



Capsule irregularly splitting 



Herbs with one leaf, Flowers minute 14 Monophyllcea. 



Herb with several alternate leaves, 



Flowers large 15 Stauranthera. 



Shrubs leafy. 



Calyx split to base, Flowers small 16 Rhynchotechum. 



Calyx tubular shortly lobed, Flowers 



large 17 Cyrtandromcea. 



III. Fruit a sausage shaped berry. 



Stamens 2 18 Cyrtandra. 



jEschynanthus, Jack. 



Epiphytes or rock plants, with slender creeping or erect 

 half woody stems, leaves opposite, or whorled fleshy or 

 coriaceous entire, ovate or lanceolate. Flowers large usually 

 showy red yellow or green in axillary or terminal heads, pedi- 

 celled. Bracts ovate or lanceolate small. Calyx tubular or 

 campanulate sub-entire or more or less lobed, or sepals free to 

 the base, Corolla tubular curved, dilated above shortly 2 

 lipped, upper lip of 2 lobes erect lower of 3 lobes deflexed. 

 Stamens 4 perfect didynamous usually exsert, anthers con- 

 nivent in pairs, loculi oblong parallel, ovary superior, with a 

 short cup-shaped disc at the base. Style as long as stamens or 

 shorter. Stigma dilate, or peltate. Capsule long cylindric 

 base usually empty and narrower, (gynophore) 2 valved 



R. A. Soc.,No. 43, 1905. 



