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* HINDSIA violacea. 
Porcelain blue. Hindsia. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CINCHONACES. 
HINDSIA. Calycis tubus turbinatus, limbus 4-5-partitus laciniis in- 
sequalibus linearibus v. apice foliaceo-dilatatis. Corolla infundibuliformis, 
tubo elongato, superne paullo inflato et inter stamina intus barbato, fauce 
nuda, limbi laciniis 5 ovatis, eestivatione valvata. -dnthere lineares sub apice 
tubi subsessiles. Ovarium biloculare; placentse medio dissepimento affixe, 
multiovulate. Styli rami longi lineares compressiusculi papilloso-hirti. 
Capsula calyce corticata, septicide bivalvis, valvulis duris demum loculicide 
bipartitis. Semina numerosa, non alata (matura ignota). ——Frutices austro- 
americani. Folia opposita, petiolata, ovata v. sublanceolata. Stipulee utrin- 
que solitaric ovate, integre, v. glanduloso-dentate intus sepius. glandulose. 
Flores ad apices ramorum in cymas subfoliatas dispositi, subsessiles, speciosi, 
corollis cceruleo-violaceis. Bentham MSS. 
H. violacea (supra, p. 40) ; molliter pubescens, stipulis ovatis, foliis lato- 
ovatis basi rotundatis, laciniis calycinis valde inzequalibus majoribus 
supra medium foliaceo-dilatatis. Bentham MSS. 
* The above generic character is taken from this species 
and from the closely allied Rondeletia longiflora of Chamisso 
and Schlechtendahl, which may be thus characterised as a 
second species of Hindsia. 
H. longiflora ; glabra v. tenuissime pubescens, stipulis lan- 
ceolatis, foliis anguste ovatis basi longe acutatis, laciniis 
calycinis parum inzqualibus non dilatatis. 
** It is much to be regretted that these plants should have 
been referred to Rondeletia, from which they differ so much 
in appearance, and from which they may be essentially dis- 
tinguished by the form of the corolla, rather funnel-shaped 
than salver-shaped, without any callous contraction or beard 
at the mouth of the tube, by the capsule which (according to 
* See p. 40 of the miscellaneous matter of this volume. 
August, 1844. R 
