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we should have had no hesitation in allotting the species to 

 AngiospermiAj, eyen if it hftd 9Qi }t^m s^je^tdy transferred 

 from GyMNOSPBRBn& in die last ecUtion of the Hortus Kew^ 



ensis. 



Holmskiold is the name or title of a Dane, whose bo- 

 tanical productions, in the opinion of Retzius, hare ren- 

 dered it worthy of bdng communicated to the present genus. 

 The a|i^lation has he^n critieized « uncouth to oar ut- 

 terance, but still we suspect it wHl l)e more easily pro- 

 nounced 1)y an Englishman, than the genmc one so justly 

 derived from onr monosyllable Smith can be by a Dane or 

 indeed any foreigner. 



" This very elegant plant was brought origiually from 

 " China into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, though native 

 " of the interior parts of Bengal. In the garden it grows 

 " to be a small tree if trained up with a single stem, bu£ 

 '' if left alone the branches spread &r around from the base 

 " of the stem close to the ground and strike root. The 

 ^ bark is ash-coloured and tolerably smooth, llie flower- 

 ing is in the cold season^ when nothing can exceed it in 

 b^ty.** 



" Branches numerous, braohiate^ wMle young fi(»newhat 

 " 4-sided and a little downy. Lea&es o[^osite, petioled, 

 " cordate, serrate, long-pointed, a little downy, &-4 inches 

 long: petioles ^ of the length of the lea^ downy, Pa- 

 mcles or compound racemes terminal, brachiate : peduncles 

 and pedicles a little hairy. Bractes, the longer petioled 

 " cordate, the smaller lanceolate. Flowers numerous, pretty 

 large, of a most beautiful scarlet colour, slightly tinged 

 with orange, inodorous. Cah/x of one piece, very large, 

 gradually widening into an ample hell, with a slightly 

 '* d-lobed border, coloured like the corolla, permanent. 

 Corolla 1-petsdled, irregular; tube longer f ban the calyx, 

 projecting with a slight cmrve downwards ; compressed, 

 widening gradually to the orifiee, a little hairy on the in- 

 " side ; limb small, 5 -parted, untkr segment larger. Sta~ 

 *' mens from the middle of the tube, slightly protruded and 

 *' declined, somewhat downy. Anikers oral. Oermm su- 

 " perior 4-lobed, 4-celled, 4-6eeded, (ovule) attached a 

 " little above the middle. Shfle decUnate in the direction 

 " of the stamens, and of liie same length, ^igma acute, 

 *' slightly two-parted. Capsule 4'lobedj 4:j>artible, each 



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