CHI. GESNERACE^E. 
[Chirita. 
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obscurely serrulate, 2-5 to 4 in. long, 1*75 to 275 in. wide; petioles 
1*5 in. long. Flowers 1 or 2, enclosed in a green bilobed cup¬ 
shaped bract *5 in. long, hairy. Sepals narrow lanceolate hairy, 
nearly -5 in. long. Corolla as long as bract, hairy, blue, -5 in. long. 
Capsule slender, curved, 2-5 in. long. Hab. Lankawi (Curtis). 
(8) C. Glasgovii Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. 5 . Br. 44, p. 59; 
Journ. As. Soc. Beng., l.c. 766. 
A weak herb, 1 ft. tall, branched. Leaves ovate blunt, thin, 
sparsely hairy, 1 to 3 in. long, 75 to 2 in. wide; petioles 1 to 2 in. 
long, glabrous. Bract cup convolute, lobes ovate hairy, 1 in. 
long. Sepals lanceolate acuminate hairy, *5 in. long. Corolla 
1 in. long, minutely hairy, dark violet. Capsule cylindric, curved, 
3 in. long. Hab. Perak, Waterloo (Robertson-Glasgow). 
6. LOXOCARPUS, Br. 
Stemless herbs. Leaves crowded in a tuft, ovate or oblong 
pubescent. Flowers 1 or more in a crowded peduncled cyme, blue. 
Sepals free to base or nearly so. Corolla campanulate almost 
regular; lobes round. Stamens 2, filaments short, thick, sinuate; 
anthers large reniform. Style longer. Capsule follicular conic 
dehiscing along the upper edge. Species about 10, Malay Peninsula, 
Borneo. 
Flowers 1 or 2; leaves ovate, base broad; nerves 
strongly elevate . . . . . . (i) L. senatorta 
Flowers few; leaves lanceolate narrow . . , (2) L. angustifolia 
Flowers 1 to 3, very small; leaves oblong-lanceo¬ 
late ; capsule hardly longer than the calyx . (3) L. minima 
Flowers generally numerous on dichotomous cymes 
on a stout peduncle. 
Peduncles 2 to 4 in. long; capsule ovoid . . (4) L. incana 
Peduncles 6 to 12 in. long ; capsule corniculate . {5) L. caerulea 
(1) L. semitorta Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 44, p. 61; 
Journ. As. Soc. Beng., l.c. 768. Didymocarpus semitortus Clarke 
Mon. Phan . v. (1), 99. 
Leaves thick, ovate or oblong blunt, base round, green silky 
above, beneath nerves thick red-woolly elevate, *3 to 1 in. long, 
*25 to 75 in. wide; petioles 1 to 2 in. long, thick-woolly. Scapes 
slender, 2 to 2-5 in. long with 1 or 2 flowers. Corolla -5 in. long, 
pale blue, violet streaked in throat; anthers purple. Capsule 
•25 in. long, horn-shaped. Hab. Very local. “ The Mt. Ophir 
Violet.” On rocks at 4000 ft. altitude. Malacca, Mt. Ophir on 
rocks in the stream (all collectors). 
(2) L. angustifolia Ridl. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxviii. 319. 
A very small plant. Leaves narrow lanceolate, acute, base 
narrowed to petiole, silky, 75 to 2 in. long, -25 to 5 in. wide. 
Peduncles very slender silky, 2 in. long, 2- or 3-flowered. Corolla 
•3 to -5 in. long, lower lip a little longer, violet. Capsule horn¬ 
shaped, viscid hairy. Hab. On rocks in stream. Very local. 
