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complanati ; teiielli ciuereo-villosi. Folia opposita, subdecussatim patentia, ad cainulonim apicem pariiin approximata, decidua, ovata 

 attenuato-acuminata, integerriina, basi rotundato-acuta, palmaria ad pedalia, coriacea, supra glabra, saturate viridia, subtus obtecta 

 pube copiosa, ininuta, incana, mollissima, stellata, subsessili, solubili et decidua ; aetate glabra, costa n?rvisque distantibus, obliquis, sub- 

 oppositis, prominentibus, flavidis, venis transversts reticulatis. Petiolus pollicaris, teres, subgracilis, pubescens, supra sulcatus. Stipule 

 uulloe. Racemi magni, axillares, solitarii, recti, adscendentes, multiflori, pedunculati, oblongi, pollices 3 crassi, 6 ad 12 longi, obtusi 

 propter folia pleraque delapsa paniculam formantes terminalem, maximam, ovato-oblongam, nutantem. Pedunculus communis 2 — 4-polli- 

 caris, rachisque crassi, lignosi, calloso-punctati, pubescentes ; partiales suboppositi, siepiiis incurvi et subadscendentes, ^-pollicares 

 a-flori vel bis trichotomi, cylindrici, ferruginei, ad divisuras articulati. Flores rosei, inodori, pollicares, sufFulti pedicello brevi, subcar- 

 noso, ad medium bracteola minima, lineari, caduca munito. Calvx campanulato-ovatus, pubescens, lineas 4 longus, persistens, fructus 

 immutatus, basi obtusus, 4-fidus ; lac'mke ovatse, obtusae, oequales. Corolla infundibuliformis, calyce 4-pl6 longior, extfis pubescens. 

 Tubus compressiusculus, sursfim senslm ampliatus, dorso gibbosus ct subvillosus. Limbus patens, 4-fidus, tubo dimidi6 brevior ; laciniae 

 ovatae, obtusae, ferfe aequales : superior vix njajor, adscendens, biloba, basi subcordata ; inferior descendens, concava ; laterales subreflexse • 

 faux hians, levitfer compressa. Stamina 4, didynama, parallela, subadscendentia, glabra ; ^Zame«/a carnosa, subulata, ad basin tubi 

 corollae inserta, 2 pariun breviora ; antherce subsagittato-ovata?, majusculoe, versatiles, 2-loculares, exsertae, loculis marginalibus, paral- 

 lelis, aequalibus. Stamen sterile nullum. Ovarium ovatum, glabrum, obsolete 6-striatum, 2-loculare, polysporum ; ovula placentse 

 septali, carnosae dens^ inserta, subadscendentia. Stylus cylindricus, glaber, staminibus vix longior, apice parum incurvus. Stigma car- 

 nosuin, clavatuin, obtusum, indivisum, nutans, roseum. Disci hjpogyni nullum vestigium. Capsula follicularis, leevis, fusca, in calyce 

 bren, immutato sessilis, oblonga, subcylindrica, medio convexa, utrinque attenuata, acuta, 2-pollicaris, 2-valvis ; rar6 (abortione loculi 

 alterius) 1-locularis, 1-valvis, tuncque obliqua propter marginem suturalem gibbosum. Valvule coriaceae, intiis ferruginese et nitidiE, 

 scaphoideae, cuspidatae, marginibus latis, textura tenuioribus, cum istis oppositae valvulae (vel alterius lateris dum unica tantiim valvula 

 adsit) contiguis, inflexis, dissepimcntumque adfigentibus ; dehiscentia recurvatae, demilmque plano-expansse, ovato-lanceolatae. Dissepi- 

 MENTUM spongiosum, angustum, persistens, utrinque gerens placentam oblongam, convexam, carnosam, foveolis longitudinalibus, numerosis, 

 parallelis notatam, stipitatam processu lato, e dissepiinenti latere orto, spongioso, denique a basi ad medium solutam, semiliberam, ser6 

 cum ipso dissepimento valvisque seorsim decidentem. Semina vald^ numerosa, parva, oblonga, tenuia, lineas 4 emetientia, longitudinalit^r 

 dense imbricata, marginata membran^ tenuissima, cinerea, conflata e cellulis copiosis, ex umbilico exteriore, infra basin seminis lateralitfer 

 sito, reticulatim ordinatis, utrinque in alam linearem, obtusara producta. Integumentum tenuissimum. Perispebmum nullum. Embryo 

 cylindricus, albus, cofyledonibus obtusis, radiculd infera. 



This arborescent climber constitutes a new genus, very distinct from all the others belonging to B'lgnomaceoB , the 

 character of which tribe, as hitherto established, it appears to infringe in some degree, although not essentially. It 

 attains a very gigantic size, overtopping trees of considerable height, and nearly overwhelming them by the weight of 

 its numerous branches. I have great pleasure in dedicating it to my much-esteemed friend Richard AVight, Esq. of the 

 Honourable East India Company's medical service, and lately in charge of the botanical establishment at Madras. This 

 indefatigable and excellent zoologist as well as botanist, during several journeys performed by him in the peninsula of 

 India, lias by his indeftitigable zeal and exertion brought together ^ery extensive collections of preserved skins of 

 animals, and dried specimens ^ plants, which, both in regard to their richness and the beauty of their preservation, 

 deserve to be ranked among the finest and most interesting that have ever been made. These collections were sent 

 to the Museum at the India House about two years ago, and the numerous duplicates of the botanical portion are 

 now in a course of distribution among the principal herbariums of Europe, jiublic as well as private. A number 

 of his valuable drawings and descriptions of rare Indian plants are on the eve of being published in the 2nd volume . 

 of Professor Hooker's admirable Botanical Miscellany. 



To my highly esteemed friend Professor Lindley I am indebted for the carpological part of the accompanying plate. 



Plate LXXXI. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Corolla opened. 4.5. Ovary opened. 6.7. Capsules. 



8. The same, wanting one of its cells and valves. 9. Placenta and seeds. 10. Seeds. 11. The same, much enlarged. 



12. A portion of the reticulated membrane which surrounds the seed, highly magnified. 13. A detached cell of the membrane of 



the seed. 14. Embryo. 



BARLERIA POLYTRICHA. Tab. 82. 



Fruticosa, hirsuta; foliis oblongis vel subellipticis, acuminatis, breve petiolatis; spicis axillaribus, brevibus, secundis; 

 bractcis magnis, oblongis, undulatis. 



Crescit in montibus Taong Dong et Prome, alibique secus ripam fluminis Irawaddi, florens et fructigera Octobri— 

 Decembri. Ad Tavoy orae Tenasserim legit Gulielmus Gomez, jilantarum collector. 



Planta fruticosa, 3-pedalis, erecta, parct ramosa, omnibus partibus hirsuta pilis densis, longis, pallid^ ferrugineis. Caults cylindricus, 

 fer^ simplex, calamum scriptorium crassus ; rami pauci, simplices, erecto-patentes. Folia opposita, patentia, interstitiis s*pi5s longiora, 

 cuneato-oblonga, acuminata, integerrima, a tertia exteriore parte deorsCm atlfenuata, nunc elliptico-oblonga, utrinque attenuato-acumi- 



