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Tas. 4514. 
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COLQUHOUNIA COCCINEA. 
Scarlet-flowered Colquhounia. 
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~ Nat. Ord. Laprat#.—DripyNaMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Cal. tubuloso-campanulatus, 10-nervius, subincurvus, subsequaliter 
5-dentatus, fauce intus nuda. Corolla tubo exserto incurvo intus nudo fauce 
dilatata, limbo bilabiato, labio superiore erecto integro subplano, inferiore sub- 
patente, lobis 3 brevibus ovatis integris. Stamina sub galea adscendentia. 
Filamenta basi nuda. Anthere approximate, biloculares, loculis demum diva- 
ricatis. Stylus apice subzequaliter bifidus, lobis subulatis. Nucule oblonge, 
sicee, leves, apice membranaceo productee.—Frutices Indic, volubiles, scandentes 
vel erecti, sepe tomentosi nec pilosi. Verticillastri laxi, axillares, vel in spicam 
terminalem approximati. Bractewe minute. Corolle coccinea. Benth. 
CoL@uHounta coccinea ; scandens, foliis glabriusculis asperulis junioribus caly- 
cibusque. tomento tenui canescentibus, dentibus calycinis ovatis obtusis, 
corolle labio -ovato. Benth. 
\UHOUNIA Wall. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. v.13. p. 688. Fl. 
. Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. v.12. p. 457. 
The present is one of three Indian species of plants consti- 
tuting the genus Colguhounia of Dr. Wallich, named by that 
zealous botanist in compliment to his friend Sir Robert Col- 
quhoun, Bart., a gentleman very conversant with the various 
branches of Natural History, and who communicated to the 
noble Garden of Calcutta many living plants and specimens, and 
observations on the botany of Kumaon. The species now before 
us was detected by Dr. Wallich in the mountain districts of 
Nepal, and was first published in the Linnean Transactions, and 
afterwards, with a figure, in the valuable ‘Tentamen Flore 
Nepalensis.’ The two other species appeared in the splendid 
‘Plante Asiaticae Rariores’ of the same author. This species 
has, at first sight, little of the general aspect of a Labiate plant, 
but rather of some of the Vitices. It is a tall-growing and sub- 
scandent shrub, and flowered in the open air, against a west 
wall, in September 1849. The seeds had been many years ago 
sent by Dr. Wallich. The flowers are handsome. 
MAY Ist, 1850. « 
