Tas. 4820. 
TRICHODESMA Zeryuanicum. 
Ceylon Trichodesma. 
Nat. Ord. BoraGiInr®.—PENTANDRIA MOonoeynia. 
1 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus y. profunde 5-fidus, sepe accrescens, lobis e 
basi lata nunc auriculata attenuatis. Corolla calyce vix longior, tubo late cylin- 
draceo, fauce nune fornicata, interdum ad sinus intrusa, lobis e basi lata seepius 
acuminato-subulatis et tunc estivatione dextrorsum convolutis. Stamina tubo 
corolle inserta, seepius limbo patente exserta; antheris filamento multoties ma- 
joribus, in conum conniventibus, dorso plus minus villosis, apice seepius longe 
subulatis et dextrorsum contortis. Pollen subsphericum. Nectarium nullum. 
Ovarium 4-loculare, ovato-acutum aut depressum, subquadrilobum. Ovula ex 
angulo superno pendentia, anatropa. Sfylus filiformis. Stigma subsimplex. 
Nucule 4-1, basi clause, columne centrali quadrangulari ventre toto adnate. 
Semen obovoideum, funiculo brevissimo pendens, exalbuminosum. Radicula su- 
pera, cotyledonibus ovalibus brevior—Herbe nunc basi suffrutescentes, Asiatice 
et Africane (Australasia) erecta, ramosa, pilis nunc basi tuberculatis. Folia al- 
terna aut opposita, sessilia, inteyra. Pedicelli laterales, florem subequantes, hispidi, 
in racemos dispositi. Flores pro ordine majusculi. Alph. De Cand. 
TricHopgesma (§ Cynoglossoides) Zeylanicum; caule erecto parce setoso, foliis 
oppositis subsessilibus oblongo-lanceolatis haud attenuatis supra sparse se- 
tosis subtus junioribus pubescentibus et parce setulosis, pedicellis patentim 
hispidis lateralibus longis unifloris in racemum dispositis, cal. lobis ovato- 
lanceolatis villosis. 4. De Cand. 
TRichoprsMa Zeylanicum. Br. Prodr. Nov. Holl. p.496. Lehm. Asperif. n. 
149. Roem. et Sch. Syst. v. 4. p. 69 et 153. 4. De Cand. Prodr, v. 10. 
p. 172. 
Boraco Zeylanica. Linn. Mant. 202. Jacq. Ic. Rar. v. 2.¢. 314. Burm. Fi. 
Ind. v. 41. t. 14. f. 2. 
TrichopesmMa Kotschyanum. Fenzl. in Pl. Kotsch. p. 542, et Pl. Schimp. v. 2. 
p. 625. . 
Our plant, from which the accompanying figure is taken, was 
raised from seeds gathered by Mr. Drummond in Western Aus- 
tralia, in about south lat. 27°; and that zealous botanist, to whom 
the plant was quite new, has stated in his journal—‘ A fine plant 
belonging to Asperifolie appears in great abundance and pertec- 
tion on the sand-banks in the sheltered bed of the Irwin river ; 
DECEMBER Ist, 1854. 
