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XXVIII. Description of two net) Genera of Plants from Nepal. 

 By Nathaniel WaUitii, M.D. F.L.S. %c. 



Read March 19, 1822. 



COLQUHOUNIA. 



Syst. Artif. Didynamia Gymnospermia. 

 Or do Natural. Labiatce. 



Char. Gen. Calyx cylindricus, fauce aequali 5-dentata: fruc- 

 tifer clausus. Corolla bilabiata ; labium superins fornica- 

 tum, bidentatum ; inferius trilobum lobis lateralibus fauci 

 ampliatae utrinque insertis, intermedio minore integro. Sta- 

 mina adscendentia ; anther arum lobi divaricati nudi. Stigma 

 bilobum, lobo superiore breviore. Ovula solitaria, pendula ! 

 Achenia maxima alata. Perispermum copiosum. Embryo 

 erectus ! 



Habitus. Frutex late volubilis superne tomento farinoso stel- 

 lato ferrugineo : rami juniores alternatim compressi, subar- 

 ticulati. Folia ovalia, serrata, scabriuscula, odore debili 

 aromatico. Flores speciosi, coccinei, fasciculati, axillares, 

 subverticillati, nunc subracemosi. 



Dixi in honorem amici restumatissimi Roberti Colquhoun, Equi- 

 tis Baroneti, historian naturalis fautoris indefessi, qui hor- 

 tum botanicum Calcutta? ditavit plurimis plantis viventibus 

 seminibus, speciminibus nee non observationibus phytogra- 

 phiam regionis Kumaon spectantibus. 



Colquiiouxia 



