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PLANTULA decumbens, vel suberecta, pilis canis pubescens, nunc omnibus partibus dens? pilosa. Raprx perennis? subfusiformis. 
" CauLEs aliquot simplices, teretes, 6-pollicares, in varietate nana (e Kamaon missa) bipollicares. Forra approximata, sparsa, patentia, 
cuneato-obovata, obtusa, vel cuspidulata, integerrima, deorsum attenuata, basi acuta, subsessilia, utrinque pilis paucis, depressis con- 
spersa, ciliata, 2-pollicaria, subtås glaucescentia. Perrouus brevissimus, vix ultra semilineam emetiens, teres, crassiusculus. FLORES 
parvi, purpurei, dens? dispositi in racemos laterales vel subaxillares, ovatos, nunc umbelliformes, folio dimidio breviores, ferè pollicares, 
sessiles. PepiceLiI pilosi, brevissimi, suffulti bracteolis 3 lanceolatis, pilosis, persistentibus. Carvcis foliola 3 exteriora lanceolata, ciliata ; 
ale ovate, ciliatæ, basi acute. Corona densè penicillato-cristata. Carsura reniformi-obcordata, copiose ciliata, lateribus vesiculosis. 
SEMINA cano-villosa. 
Plate CLXXXV. (the upper representation). Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same, enlarged. 3. The same, opened. 4. Stamens. 
5. Carina, with its crest. 6. Capsule. 
ARGOSTEMMA VERTICILLATUM. Tab. 185. (fig. inferior.) 
Argostemma verticillatum Wall. in Roxb. Flor. Ind. v. 2. p. 325. 
Habitat ad Mareko montis Sheopur Napaliz, florens mensibus Julii et Augusti. 
A detailed description of this neat little plant has been published by me in 1824, in Roxburgh's work just quoted. 
Plate CLXXXV. (the lower representation). Fig. 1. 2. Flower, enlarged. 3. Calyx, opened. 4. Corolla, opened. 5. Stamens. 
6. Ovary, opened. 
STAUROGYNE. 
CaLyx 5-partitus, 3-bracteatus, lobis aristato-acuminatis, inæqualibus. Corolla tubulosa, limbo 5-lobo. Stamina 4, 
inclusa, didynama (cum rudimento quinti ?), antherarum loculis discretis, reflexo-parallelis. ^ Ovarium disco carnoso 
insidens, biloculare, polysporum ; ovula axi adfixa. Stylus gracilis. Stigma infundibuliforme, trilobum ; lobi 
subulato-acuminati, laterales breviores, divaricati. ` Fructus .... 
Classis Linneana : Didynamia Gymnospermia. 
Ordo naturalis : Acanthacee ? 
Habitus: Herba carnosa, erecta, parcé ramosa, foliis subtüs argenteis, floribus racemoso-capitatis, terminalibus. 
STAUROGYNE ARGENTEA. Tab. 186. 
Fouts oblongis, sepalis bracteisque scabris. 
Crescit in Sillet, florens sub pluviis. Invenit F. De Silva. 
PLANTA erecta, brevis. Raprx ratione plantæ magna, perpendicularis, sublignosa, fibras emittens plures, horizontales, pubescentes. 
Cavus semipedalis, carnosus, cylindricus, pilosulus, ætate glaber, nunc aliquot ex eadem radice. Rami pauci, oppositi, teretes, breves, 
simplices. Forra opposita, patentissima, interstitiis ter pluriesve longiora, lanceolato-oblonga, acutiuscula, basi subacuta, integerrima 
vel obsoletè crenulata, 3—4-pollicaria, subcarnosa, suprà glabra, punctis creberrimis minutis obsita, subtüs argenteo-alba, subnitida, 
secus vasa puberula, costà elevatå, nervis alternis, ad marginem obliquè excurrentibus, venis capillaceis, reticulatis.  PerioLus 
carnosus, teres, suprà sulcatus, folio dimidid triplóve brevior, basi lineolå elevatå ad oppositum migrans. Fores subsessiles, aliquot 
dispositi in racemum brevem, subcapitatum, terminalem, breve pedunculatum, pubescentem. Carvx 5-phyllus ; foliola erecta, inæqualia, 
lineari-lanceolata, trinervia, margine nervisque subpiloso-scabra, desinentia in aristam longam, capillaceam, scabram, in planta adulta 
fer’ pollicarem, rufescentem.  BnacrE tres infra calycem, cujus laciniis simillimæ sed parùm minores. Conorra tubulosa, calyce vix 
longior, glabra, ferè pollicaris ; tubus amplus, pallidè violaceus, basi flavidus leviterque contractus ; limbus brevis, patens, 5-lobus, pur- 
pureus ; lobi subrotundi, obtusi, inferiores 2 parüm minores et disco albidi; faux nuda, pervia. Stamina 4, supra basin tubi inserta, 
didynama ; filamenta filiformia, puberula ; anthere albidæ, 2-loculares, paròm nutantes ; loculi retroflexi, paralleli, basi tantúm connectivo 
brevi, clavato unite. Rudimentum staminis quinti inter inferiora filamenta? Ovarrum disco carnoso, brevi insidens, glabrum, oblongum, 
` 2-loculare; ovula plurima, cuneiformi-cylindrica, angulo recto e placenta axili parallelé divergentia. Stylus gracillimus, staminibus 
parüm longior, apice leviter incrassatus. Sriama in fauce corollæ, magnum, infandibuliforme, 3-lobum ; lobi subulati, valde acuminati, 
laterales breviores, in formam crucis divergentes (unde nomen genericum). Frucrus haud visus. 
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