a new Natural Order of Plants. 43 
but afterwards diverge from each other. Ovary surrounded 
by a fleshy nectarial ring, which is marked with five lobes. 
Style nearly as long as the stamina. Stigma sub-bilabiate. 
Capsule silique-shaped, eight to ten inches long, two-valved, 
two-celled ; cells bipartite by the revolute lobes of the septa ; 
dissepiments composed of two laminæ easily separable. 
Seeds very numerous, attached to the inner surface and 
edge of the lobes, small, oblong, furnished with a long thread 
or awn at each end, and having a rounded apophysis 
above. 
9, ÆSCHYNANTHUS RADICANS. 
A. caule radicante, calycibus villosis. 
Simbar burong. Malay. 
Found in the forests of the interior of Sumatra growing on the 
trunks of old trees, with its root sometimes on the ground, 
sometimes on the tree. | 
Branches long and slender, radicating at the joints. Leaves 
opposite, short-petioled, varying from ovate to elliptic- 
lanceolate, sometimes almost cordate at the base, acute, 
very entire, the margins somewhat reflexed, villous, thick, 
fleshy and veinless, whitish, and finely punctate with de- 
pressed dots beneath; from one to two inches long. The 
old leaves become quite smooth, particularly on the upper 
surface. Peduncles axillary, sometimes also terminal, gene- 
rally two-flowered, villous. Flowers drooping, of a deep 
crimson colour. Bracts two, at the base of the pedicels. 
Calyx tubular, villous; mouth quinquefid. Corolla more 
than twice as long as the calyx, villous without; tube gib- 
bous àt the base, contracted opposite the middle of the 
calyx, infundibuliform above and somewhat curved ; limb 
subringent; upper lip erect, two-lobed ; segments small 
and approximate, lower three-parted. Stamina four, ex- 
G 2 sert ; 
