Major Vicary, and our plant, here figured, blossomed at Kew 
under a cool frame in October, 1855. It is indeed a remarkably 
handsome plant; native of the mountains of Emodi, near Srina- 
ghur, and on the Suen range of hills. 
Dxscr. foot perennial. Stem annual, and, as is the whole 
plant, glabrous, one to one and a half foot high, slightly branched. 
Leaves a span and more long, especially the radical ones, impari- 
_ pinnate, with about five to seven pairs of opposite, cordato-ovate, 
obtuse, shortly (but evidently) petiolulate /eafle/s, their margins 
crenato-lobate. Peduncles terminal, leafless, or only with two or 
three cuneate bracts. Vowers large, handsome, at first corymbose ; 
as the fruit ripens racemose. Pedice/s short, bracteated. Calyz- 
tube turbinate, thick, fleshy: /imé of five, short, obtuse, thick, 
granulated teeth. Corollu, with the fuse between infundibuli- 
form and campanulate, orange. Zimé very large, of five, spread- 
ing, rounded, emarginate, rose-coloured dobes. Stamens included, 
inserted on the contracted portion of the tube of the corolla, 
didynamous : filaments curved, so that the anthers meet in two 
pairs: their ce//s diverging, and bearing each a long tuft of hair 
and a spine at the back. Ovary oblong, shortly stipitate, sur- 
rounded by an hypogynous ring. Style filiform. Stigma of two, 
large, spreading lamine. 
Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Lower part of the corolla (laid open), with sta- 
mens. 3. Anthers. 4. Ovary and hypogynous ring :—magnified. 
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