29 STAPELIA ADSCENDENS. 
Corol: tube scarce any ; border flat: divisions linear, margins re- 
flected. 
Follicles erect, as thick as a goose-quill, about four or five inches 
long. 
This plant is not very common; it grows among bushes on high, 
dry, barren ground; flowers during the wet season. The natives 
eat raw the most succulent tender branches, although they are bitter 
and salt to the taste. 
31. GRISLEA TOMENTOSA. 
Lythrum fruticosum. Linn. Spec. Plant. 641. 
Seringie of the Telingas. 
Stem and principal branches erect ; smaller ascending; bark rust 
coloured. 
Leaves opposite, two-faced, sessile, half-lanced with a hearted base, 
acute, above smooth, below whitish. 
Raceme axillary, short, bearing from five to fifteen flowers. 
Flowers pretty large, red coloured, permanent. 
Calyx red, six-toothed, equal, permanent, as is also the colour. 
Corol: petals six, small, lanced. 
Filaments equal, inserted in the calyx near its base. 
Stigma oblong. 
Capsule covered with the coloured permanent calyx. 
A very beautiful flowering shrub, a native of the hills and valleys 
through the northern provinces. Flowers during the cold, and be- 
ginning of the hot season. 
The bright red calyx, which retains its colour till the seeds are 
ripe, gives to this shrub a very showy appearance. I do not know 
any use it is applied to. 
32. ROXBURGHIA GLORIOSOIDES. 
Canipoo-Tiga of the Telingas. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Calyx four-leaved. Corol four-petaled, inwardly keeled. Nectarial 
bodies four, awled, on the apex of the keel of the petals, con- 
verging. Anthers linear, sessile, in the grooves of the keel. 
Capsule one-celled, two-valved. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Root perennial, composed of many smooth, cylindric, fleshy tubers, 
from six to twelve inches long, and from three to five in cir- 
cumference about the middle; they taper equally towards 
each end. 
Stem biennial or more, twining, smooth, from six to twenty feet 
long, running over small trees, &c. 
Branches like the stem, but few and slenderer. 
Leaves sometimes alternate, sometimes opposite, petioled, nearly 
depending, hearted, fine-pointed: point recurvate, entire, 
smooth, shining, in substance soft and delicate, generally 
eleven-nerved, with beautiful, very fine, transverse veins run- 
ning between the nerves ; about four or six inches long, and 
three or four broad. 
ROXBURGHIA GLORIOSOIDES. 50 
Petiole slightly channelled, smooth ; one and a half or two inches 
broad. 
Peduncle axillary, single, erect, length of the petiole, generally two- 
flowered. 
Pedicels clubed, short. 
Bract one, lanced, at the base of the pedicels. 
Calyx below, four-leaved: leaflets lanced, membranaceous, striated, 
coloured, revolute, placed immediately below the petals. 
Petals four, nearly erect, lanced; the lower half is rather broader 
than the upper, and along its inside runs a deep, sharp, slightly 
waved keel, which forms on each side of it a deep groove or 
hollow; the four keels converge, and in some measure adhere 
together, which brings the sides of the petals close, forming 
like a tube; the upper part of the petals is narrow, bending 
out a little, then their points bend in. 
Nectary 1s composed of four, lanced, yellow bodies, each sitting 
sessile on the apex of the keel of the petals, converging into 
one conical body. 
Filaments none. 
Anthers eight, linear, lodged in the grooves formed by the keel of 
the petals, adhering their whole length, but their chief inser- 
tion is near the base. 
Germ above, hearted. 
Style none. 
Stigma pointed. 
Capsule egged, compressed, one-celled, two-valved, opening from 
the apex; is about an inch and a half long, and one broad. 
Seeds from five to eight, inserted by pedicels into the bottom of the 
capsule, cylindric, striated: the pedicels are surrounded with 
numerous, small pellucid vesicles. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
This is a native of moist valleys among the mountains ; its flower- 
ing time the cold season. 
33. UVARIA CERASOIDES. 
Duduga of the Telingas. 
Trunk erect, long, and perfectly straight. 
Branches spreading, horizontal: branchlets two-faced. 
Leaves alternate, two-faced, short-petioled, lanced, or oblong, point- 
ed, below downy, entire; about four inches long, and one and 
a half broad. 
Stipules none. . 
Peduncle axillary, simple, bowing, bracted near the base, one- 
flowered, round, downy ; about one inch long. 
Calyx three-leaved. 
Corol six-petaled, &c. as in the genus. 
Filaments very numerous, short, clubed, grooved, fleshy, ascending, 
placed so very close as to press upon one another, inserted into 
a globular fleshy receptacle. 
Anthers four or five-sided, lop’d, a little concave in the centre. 
Germs about forty, occupying the disk or centre, oblong, sessile, 
hairy. 
Styles short. 
Stigmas large, purple. 
Berries many, pediceled, diverging, umbell-like, globular, size of a 
small cherry, and very like one when ripe ; one-celled. 
Seed one, round, like the berry. 
