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AESCHYNANTHUS GRANDIFLORUS. LARGE- 
FLOWERED AESCHINANTHUS. 
KEKE EEE EKER ERE EEE EEREK 
Class and Order. 
Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—CyrranprAcez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. tubulosus, 5-fidus, equalis. Cor. hypogyna, tubo in- 
curvo, limbi bilabiati labio sup. bilobo, inf. trilobo, lobis 
subequalibus. Stam. 4, didynama, rudimentum quinti : 
Anthere biloculares, per paria coherentes. Ovarium elon- 
gatum annulo hypogyno carnoso cinctum. Stylus simplex ; 
stigma clavato-bilamellatum. Capsula basi calyce stipata, 
elongato-siliqueformis, pseudo-quadrilocularis, bivalvis, 
valvis medio placentas, demum explanatas, margine semini- 
feras, gerentibus. Semina plurima, cylindrica, funiculo 
filiformi et chalaza incrassata in filum simplex v. bifidum 
excurrente utrinque aristata. Albumen o. Radicula tereti- 
uscula, umbilicum basilarem attingens.—Frutices Asie tro- 
pice, volubiles v. scandentes, ad articulos tumidos radicantes ; 
foliis subcarnosis, pedunculis axillaribus terminalibusque ; 
floribus speciosis aurantiaceo-coccineis. Endlich. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Arscuynantuus* grandiflorus ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis 
acuminatis serratis obscure nervosis, umbella multi- 
flora, laciniis calycinis ovatis, corolla lobis omnibus 
rotundatis subequalibus, stylo exserto. 
Arscuynantuus grandiflorus. Don, in Gen. Syst. of Gard. 
and Bot. v. 4. p. 656. Paxt. Mag. of Bot. t. 241. 
gen ppiaen in grandiflorum. Don, in Ed. Phil. Journ. v. 
. p. 8d. 
INcarviLLEA parasitica. Roxb. Corom. t. 291. 7 
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* From the Greek words, asoxos, modesty, and avbos, a flower. 
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