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PLANTS JAVANICiK RARI0RES. 577

��LOXOTIS OBLIQUA. p*

Tab. XXIV.

Char. Gen. Calyx tubulosus, 5-fidus, aestivatione valvata. Corollas personates labium superim abbreviatum, bilobum; inferius productum, semitrilobum (lobis late- ralibus nanis). Stamina inclusa ; antherifera duo, antheris reniformibus. Stigma capitatum (vix divisum). Cap- sula subovata, calyce inclusa, bivalvis ; placentis utrinque seminiferis.

Herba altemifolia, annua, erecta, glabriuscula. Caule succulento. Foliis integerrimis, basi liinc alte excisis. Racemis subsecundis, indivisis, pedicellis solitariiSj unibrac- teatis,Jloribus dejlexo-porrectis, cceruleis.

Obs. Genus ad tribum Cyrtandracearum pertinens, proximum Glossantho, quae, foliis et inflorescentia omnino conveniens, vix abler differt nisi staminibus quatuor antheriferis antheris in coronulam cohaerentibus, calyce basi insequali angulisque tubi altius alatis, labio corollas inferiore indiviso et disco hypogyno completo.

LOXOTIS OBLIQUA.

a. Calycis lacinios acutiusculce tubo breviores.

Antonia vel Loxotis. B. Br. in Wallich, PI. Asiat. Rar.> vol. in, p. 65, in obs. sub Aikinia.

Loxotis obliqua. Benth. Scrophul. Ind.,p. 57.

Wulfenia obliqua. Wallich, Tent. Flor. Nepal., p. 45* t 35. Bon, Flor. Nepal. Prodr. s p. 92.

Rhinchoglossum obliquum. Blume, Bijdr. Stuk. 14, p. 741 ?

/3. Calycis lacinios acutissimos tubo longiores.

Loxotis intermedia. Benth. Scrophul. Ind., p. 57.

Wulfenia intermedia. Wallich, Cat. n. 408?

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