figure in the ‘Tentamen Florze Nepalensis’ is extremely accu- 
rate; but our artist represents two rows or series of ovules in 
each cell, while Dr. Wallich figures and describes only one: the 
former we suspect to be the correct number. 
Descr. Root a small irregular fwber, throwmg out many 
branched fibres. Stems herbaceous, a foot or more high, branched, ~ 
terete, pubescent, as in nearly the whole plant, with glandular 
hairs. eaves alternate, distant, cordato-ovate, shortly acumi- 
nate, entire, soft and downy, semiamplexicaul at the base, and 
there forming a very short sheath; nerves obliquely parallel. 
Peduncles in pairs, terminating the stem and branches, one bear- 
ing a small leaf or dractea, downy. Flowers solitary, erect. Se- 
pals six, at first erect, and forming a campanulate blossom, then 
spreading horizontally, of a whitish-green colour, internally 
spotted or blotched with purple, lanceolate, glabrous within ; the 
three outer with a large sac or gibbous pouch at the base, the 
three inner ones merely cucullate. Stamens inserted opposite to 
the sepals, erect, but flexuose, glandular at the base. <Azther 
oblong, extrorse. Ovary prismatic, trigonous, glandular at the 
top. Style simple at the base, soon dividing into three spread- 
ing branches, and then again bifid, spotted with purple, and 
beautifully glanduloso-pilose. Frit, according to Dr. Wallich, 
a triquetro-prismatic capsule, the side channelled, three-valved, 
the valves short, plicate, narrow ; the dissepiments formed by the 
inflexed margins of the valves. 
Fig. 1. Outer sepal. 2. Inner sepal. 3. Stamen. 4, Pistil. 5. Transverse 
section of ditto :—magnified. 
