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their apices meet; the lower pair are firmly united their whole 
length. 
Germ above, ege’d. 
Style length of the tube. 
Stigma enlarged, entire. 
Capsule oblong, about as long as the calyx, two-cell’d, two-valved ; 
receptacle columnar. 
Seeds very numerous. * 
This isa very elegant herbaceous plant, a native of the mountain- 
ous part of the country; flowers during the wet and cold season. 
91. AXGINETIA INDICA. 
Linn. spec. plant. edit. 1. p. 632. 
Orobanche Aiginetia. Linn. spec. plant. edit. 2. p. 883. 
Root, a number of fleshy fibres intricately interwoven. . 
Scapes several, straight, round, smooth, perfectly naked, except im- 
mediately at their base, where each is involved in a small 
sheath, about a foot long, one-flower’'d. 
Flowers large, of an elegant purple colour. 
Spathe oblong, pointed, opening lengthways on one side. 
Corol one-petaled: bottom of the tube erect, pitcher-form, above 
bent through the spathe horizontally, bellied; border five- 
parted: divisions equal, rounded. 
Filaments four, two-powers. 
Anthers twin, united by pairs. 
Germ above, egg’d. | 
Style bent so as to correspond with the form of the corol, and is of 
_ the same length. 
Stigma headed. 
Capsule egg’d, pointed, size of a fiibert, and although I have exa- 
mined it in all stages, yet I have never been able to fix upon 
any determined internal structure ; there are a number of con- 
voluted laminz throughout, between which are lodged innu- 
merable, most minute seeds, like those of the Orchidez. 
“A small, rare, rust-like, herbaceous, naked plant; a native of the 
hilly parts of the Circars. 
* Description by Doctor Koenig. 
Radices filiformes, subhorizontales, flexuose, lignose, albicantes. 
Caulis erectus, dein in ramos patentissimos diffusus. Rami oppositi, quadrangulares, glabri, 
lignosi. 
Folia opposita, patentia, setaceo-linearia: inferiora tripartita; superiora simplicia, subsca- 
bra, carnosa, obscure viridia, interstitiis longiora. 
Flores axillares, solitarii, cauli adpressi. Pedunculi clavati, breves. Bractea: ad basin pe- 
dunculi una, linearis, vix pedunculo longior; ad basin calycis geminz, opposite, 
erecta, adpressx, lineares, laciniis calycinis simillime, eisque parum breviores. 
Calyx monophyllus, cylindricus, decemstriatus, striis quinque dorsalibus majoribus rubris, 
quinquefidus : laciniz subzequales, lineares, acuta, erect, longitudine tubi. 
Corolla monopetala, purpurea, quinquefida : lacinize ovate, ciliate, imequales: duz supe- 
riores recuryate, basi macula notate, minores; tres inferiores patentissimz, ma- 
cula obcordato-oblonga sanguinea intra faucem nudam. 
Filamenta didynama, curvata, sanguinea, pilis albis adspersa, corolla breviora. Anthere 
bilobe: lobi superiores oblongi, convoluti, apice dehiscentes; lobi inferiores desi- 
nentes in spinulam conicam, acutam. 
Germen oblongum, lve. Stylus erectus, ruber, pilis albis conspersus. Stigma clavatum, 
apice concayum. 
Capsula oblonga, obtusa, bilocularis. Semina numerosa, clavata, punctata. 
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92. CYLISTA SCARIOSA. 
Leaves three’d. Leaflets entire, downy, pointed: the exterior long- 
rhomb’d, the pair obliquely egg’d. 
Stipules short, hearted. 
Raceme axillary, erect, as long as the leaves. 
Flowers many, yellow, hid in the calyx, except just when expanded, 
and then they only appear in front. 
Calyx one-leaved, four-parted, chaffy, slightly downy, beautifully 
reticulated with colour’d veins ; upper division shortest, broad, 
retuse ; under division long, retuse; lateral parts smallest, 
hearted, permanent. 
Corol, Stamens, and Pistil, as in Dolichos. 
Legume obliquely oval, downy, hid in the calyx. 
Seed one. 
This plant is perennial, with a woody twining stem. A native 
of the mountainous parts of the Circars. 
93. CASULIA AXILLARIS. 
Stems herbaceous, towards the base creeping, and branchy, above 
erect, round, smooth; the erect parts from nine to fifteen 
inches high. 
Leaves alternate, stem-clasping, lanced, saw’d, smooth, the base is 
much expanded so as to form a cup-like receptacle for the 
flower. 
Flowers axillary, single, sessile, (the compound is meant,) a beauti- 
ful light purple. 
Common Perianth many-leaved, unequal, the exterior two or three 
leaflets placed on the sides, are the largest and leaf-like. Par- 
tial Perianth one-flower’d, one-leaved, bellied, mouth contract- 
ed, margin two-cleft, permanent. 
Corol compound : Corollets numerous, equal: tubes longer than their 
perianths ; border five-cleft, spreading. 
Filaments five, &c. as in the class. 
Germ ege’d. 
Stigma two-cleft. 
Pericarp none; the ‘belly of the partial perianth closely envelops 
each seed, forming its exterior covering. 
Seed one, wedge-form, somewhat four-sided, crowned with the two 
divisions of the mouth of the partial perianth. + 
Is a native of moist places. Flowers during the wet season. 
+ Description by Doctor Koenig. 
Radix fibrosa. 
Caulis basi patens, ramosus, postea erectus, teres, glaber, pedalis, vel bipedalis. 
Rami numerosi, brachiati, approximati, simplices. 
Folia alterna, lineari-lanceolata, glabra, dentata, denticulis minimis remotis, plerumque infra 
capitula florum tria, inequalia, quorum duo lateralia multoties minora, omnia basi 
dilatata. 
Capitula planiuscula, parum convexa, e flosculis hermaphroditis numerosissimis compositi. 
Calyx communis nullus. Jnvolucra e basi trium foliorum dilatata in membranas venosas, co- 
loratas, lacero-dentatas; et tribus vel duobus involucris propriis, latis, membranaceis, 
purpureo-albis, venis obscurioribus, magnitudine inzequalibus. Palee ad marginem 
disci plurime, figura dissimillimz, pleraeque tamen lineares, omnes acute, membra- 
nacex, purpureo-nivee, vix longitudine florum. 
Corolla composita uniformis : Corollule hermaphrodite, equales. Propria infundibulifor- 
mis, limbo patentissimo, quinquepartito: laciniis lineari-lanceolatis, ceruleo-pur- 
pureis. 
Filamenta quinque, capillaria, brevia. Anthera cylindracea, tubulosa, limbo longior, atro- 
purpurea. 
