completely expanded, had di'opped oif in the way to town, 

 and could not be represented in the present figure. 



The species is native of the East Indies. There is like- 

 wise a specimen of it in the Banksian Herbarium, fi'om 

 Otaheite. Mr. Brown having noticed a slight difference in 

 the New Holland plant he has ranked under the present 

 title, we have subjoined it in the synomyny, as the variety (3. 

 until experience, or comparison between the living plants, 

 has proved tlieir identity. 



A perennial plant, except at the corolla loosely fun-ed 

 with a soft whitish pubescence. Leaves soft, green, raucro- 

 nate, upper ones oftenest oblongly cordate, angular, on each 

 side of the lower part repandly indented, lower ones ovately 

 or broadly cordate, with horizontally branched nerves, two 

 or three times longer than the petiole. Peduncles several- 

 flowered, more roughly villous than any other part of the 

 plant, shorter than the leaf. Calt/x large, membranous, 

 sericeously downy, whitish, sprinkled over in our specimen 

 with dots ; leaflets elliptic, pointed, two outer ones largest, 

 about three fourths of an inch, or thereabout, high. Bractes 

 large, of the same colour and substance as the leaflets of the 

 calyx, caducous, placed below the flowers or at the base of 



the peduncles. Corolla white; segments rounded. Stigma 

 capitate. 



Hermann speaks of the roots as woody, and as being of 

 the thickness of the thumb, and says that they descend to 

 the depth of three or four yards into the ground. He found 

 the plant abundantly in ivet shady places, at the sides of 

 ditches, behind garden hedges and such-like places at some 

 distance from the sea, both in the Island of Ceylon and on 

 the coast of Malabar ; and describes the flowers as. of the 



size of the common Biad-weed* 



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