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THUNBERGIA grandiflora. 
Blue-flowered Thunbergia. 
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DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. AcANTHI. Jussieu gen. 102. Div. I. Stam. 4 didynama. 
ACANTHACEE. Brown prod. 1. 472, 
THUNBERGIA. Cal. duplex, exterior 2-phyllus, interior 12-partitus, 
brevior, laciniis subulatis. Cor. campanulata, tubo ampliato, limbo 6-lobo 
quali. Stigma bilobum. Caps. globosa rostrata loculis dispermis. Herbe 
BARLERIA affines, caule 4-gono: flores solitarii, axillares, Juss. loc. cit. 
108. 
T. grandiflora, perennis, scandens; foliis anguloso-cordatis; corollà campa- 
nulatà; calyce interiore nullo; antheris barbatis, calcaratis. Roxburgh 
lor. ind. ined. 
Thunbergia grandiflora. Carey hort. beng. in loco. 
Radix perennis, subtuberosa: caules frutescentes, volubiles, excels? scan- 
dentes; rami novelli villosiusculi, subquadrialati. Fol. opposita, petiolata, 
cordata, sep? angulari-lobata, acuminata, 5-7-nervia, utrinque pilis minutis 
rigidis albis hispidiuseula, 3-8 uncias longa latitudine ferè pari; floralia 
racemorum parvula, ceterum similia: petioli erecti, itudine ferà folii, 
Prope basim tumidi, canaliculati, scabri. Stipule 0.. Pedunculi axillares, 
solitarii, vel in racemis terminalibus pendulis gemini v. brachiatim gemini v. 
trini v. bis geminati: axillarum ut pedicelli uniflori, teretes, subclavati, 
petiolum equantes. Flores ampli diametro riunciali, colore caruleo 
pulcherrime nitentes. Bractex 0. Cal. Spatha bivalvis; valve oblonge, 
obliquate à latere inferiore curviores discrete, à superiore rectiores partim 
coherentes interdüm omninó, sepiüs tantummodò juxta apicem, striate, 
acuminate, villosiuscule, nigro-puncticulate, tubum cum simul fauce sub- 
«quantes. Cor. 1-petala, campanulata, disco annulari glanduloso insidens: 
tubus brevis, conicus, faux ampla latere superiore elongatim fornicata, infe- 
riore palato convexo grandiore lineis ceruleis saturatioribus dilutioribusque 
alternis picto intùs prominens: limbus 5-partitus, ‘laciniis subrotundis, 2 
superioribus erectis, inferioribus porrecto-patentibus: discus hypogynus an- 
tlularis, carnosus, lobatus germinis basin cingens. Stam. fauce inclusa; fil. 
4, ore tubi inserta, oblongo-ovata, compressa, rugosa, par anticum postico 
longius, sed ob curvaturam majorem non altius: anth. conniventes, equales, 
lineares, erecta, biloculares marginibus barbatis, anteriorum loculi utrinque 
calcari rigido acuto albo aucti, posteriorum tantummodò loculus exterior. 
Germ. conicum, subtetragonum: stylus longitudine staminum: stigma majus- 
culum, foramine pertusum. Caps. globosa, rostrata, bilocularis, bivalvis, 
ab apice dehiscens: semina demum tantüm duo in singulo loculo, subrotunda, 
compressa, margine incisa, latere extimo conveza tuberculata, intimo concava 
levia.—RKoxb. loc. cit. (ex anglico versum). 
The drawing of this newly introduced handsome-flowered 
climber is from the pencil of Mr. Herbert, whose kind com- 
munications we have so often had to acknowledge. It 
