perfumers and dyers. My pundits unanimously assure me that 
the plant before us is their Sép’halica, thus named because bees 
are supposed to sleep on the blossoms.” It is certain, however, 
that when the fragrant corollas, with the bright orange eye and 
orange tube have fallen, as they do early in the morning, the plant 
has but an indifferent appearance. These orange-coloured tubes 
are, according to Roxburgh, what yield the colour or dye, but 
unfortunately no way has yet been discovered of rendering this 
colour permanent. The plant blossoms through the summer 
months. Although a native of India, it is not correctly known 
of what particular district it is a native: Clusius says Goa, and 
only there ; but Dr. Hooker found it wild abundantly in Assam. 
Descr. A straggling, but not climbing s/rué (in India often 
a small free), with spreading, acutely four-angled, and almost 
winged branches, the angles often tinged with red. Leaves ovate, 
acuminate, from two to five inches long, opposite, penninerved, 
entire or often dentato-lobate; petioles half to three-quarters 
of aninch long. Corymés terminal, the branches opposite, three- 
flowered. Flowers sessile, each flower subtended by two broadly 
ovate bracts, almost concealing the calyx. Ca/ya cylindrical, sub- 
turbinate, villous with appressed hairs, truncate, with five very 
minute teeth. Corolla hypocrateriform ; tude thrice as long as the 
calyx, orange-colour within and without, within also hairy at the 
base ; /imé of six, imbricating, cuneate, subcontorted, erose, white, 
spreading segments. Stamens two, included ; Jilaments very short, 
inserted just within the mouth of the tube ; anther ovato-cordate, 
having a small curved spur at the back, near the apex. Ovary 
ovato-globose ; sty/e included, shorter than the tube of the co- 
rolla; stigma peltate, with a depression in the centre. 
Fig. 1. Calyx. 2. Corolla laid open, showing the insertion of the stamens. 
3. Stamen. 4. Pistil :—magnified. 
