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CIIL GESNERACE^. 
Seeds not plumed. Terrestrial herbs; flowers 
blue, white, yellow or red. 
Corolla trumpet-shaped ; stamens long fili¬ 
form. 
Stamens perfect, 4 . 
Stamens perfect, 2. 
Stigma entire ..... 
Stigma bifid ..... 
Corolla campanulate, tube short; filaments 
short, thick sinuate. 
Stamens 2; fruit conic .... 
Stamens 2 ; fruit cylindric straight. 
Corolla-lobes rounded broad 
Corolla gibbous, lobes tooth-like . 
Capsule twisted. 
Calyx 5-lobed; stamens 2 
Calyx 3-lobed; stamens 2 
Stamens 4, complete ..... 
Capsule ovoid or ellipsoid, hardly longer than 
sepals. 
Stamens 2. 
Stem short; sepals linear free 
Stem tall; sepals ovate free 
Stem tall; calyx campanulate connate half 
way ...... 
Stamens 4. 
Herbs. 
Fruit circumscissile .... 
Fruit splitting irregularly; leaves 2 (coty¬ 
ledons) one very small, one large 
Fruit splitting irregularly; leaves several, 
in unequal pairs. 
Flowers large campanulate; stamens not 
exsert ...... 
Flowers small, tube short ; stamens exsert. 
Shrubs. 
Sepals free to base; flowers small 
Sepals connate in a tube, red; flowers 
large ...... 
Fruit fleshy baccate ; shrubs ; stamens 2 
3. Didissandra 
4. Didymocarfus 
5. Chirita 
6. Loxocarpus 
7. PARABtEA 
8. CODONOBCEA 
9. B(EA 
10. Dichilobcea 
11. Bceica 
12. Orchadocarpa 
13. Lepadanthus 
14. Rhynchoglqssum 
15. Epithema 
16. Monophyll^ia 
17. Stauranthera 
18. Loxonia 
19. Rhynchotecum 
20 . CYTANDROMfEA 
21. Cyrtandra 
1. JESCHYNANTHUS, Jack. 
Shrubs, epiphytes or rock-plants generally erect with many 
slender branches. Leaves opposite or whorled, fleshy or coriaceous 
lanceolate or ovate. Flowers usually showy, scarlet, yellow or 
green in axillary or terminal heads. Calyx tubular or campanulate 
or sepals free to base. Corolla tubular, curved, dilate above, 
shortly 2-lipped, upper lobe erect; lower 3-lobed deflexed. 
Stamens 4, didynamous exsert; anthers connivent in pairs. Ovary 
superior. Disk cup-shaped. Style long; stigma small peltate. 
Capsule cylindric slender long, 2-valved, base often empty and 
narrower (gynophore). Seeds very many, minute with 1 hair at 
top, 1 or many at bottom. Species about 60, Indo-Malaya, China. 
