Rhynchotechum
(name not explained by its author). SYNS. Cheilosandra, Chiliandra, Corysanthera. ORD. Gesneraceae. A genus comprising about half-a-dozen species of villous, hairy, or woolly, stove sub-shrubs, natives of the East Indies and the Malayan Archipelago. Flowers pink or white, small; calyx of five narrow segments; corolla with a short, broadly campanulate tube, and a sub-bilabiate limb; cymes pedunculate in the axils or defoliated nodes, often bundle-flowered, densely or loosely trichotomous. Leaves ample, opposite or rarely ternately whorled. Only one species has yet been introduced. For culture, see Gesnera.
R. ellipticum (elliptic-leaved). fl. of a deep rose-colour, small disposed in crowded, axillary corymbs. Summer. l. opposite obovate-elliptic. Stem simple, erect, 2ft. to 3ft. high. Assam and Sikkim, 1870. (B. M. 5832.)