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celli 9 lin. longi. Corolla diam. 9 lin. In foliorum axillis sunt 
rami brevissimi, quorum internodia valde abbreviata, et folia fascicu- 
lata videntur.— Species singularis. Crescit in provincia Canara, et 
in sylvis * Dandilly” dictis; fl. temp. pluviali. 
Heterostemma wrceolatum; caule volubili purpureo puberulo, foliis 
herbaceis glabris petiolatis late ovatis acutis basi cordatis ibique 
glandula instructis trinerviis, umbellis (brevissime pedunculatis) 
paucifloris, pedicellis petiolo brevioribus, corolla profunde urceolata 
apice brevissime 5-fida, laciniis æstivatione valvatis sinubus dente 
minuto instructis. 
Corolla 8—10 lin. longa, basi ventricosa, ore contracto, extus purpureo- 
rubescens, intus atro-purpureo, fundo sparsim villoso ; corollæ Zaciniæ 
triangulares, 1-14 lin. longæ, dentes inter lacinias minuti. Corona 
staminea 5-phylla, foliolis carnosis (gynostegium superantibus et circa 
eum cupulam efformantibus) apice horizontaliter dilatatis, marginis 
interioris basi prominula, gynostegium amplectente, apice dente in- 
troverso horizontali instructo. -Anthere appendice membranacea 
colorata terminate, polliniis in margine gynostegii applanati incum- 
bentibus ovato-rotundatis parum compressis medio latere inferiore 
affixis brevissime stipitatis margine interiore ala pellucida instructis. 
Crescit rara in collibus prope Belgaum; fl. Julio. 
I was at first inclined to consider this rare plant as the type of a 
new genus, but on a closer examination I found it to differ in no re- 
spect from Heterostemma, except in the singular form of the corolla ; 
and this opinion was not affected even by a comparison of it with living - 
specimens of H. Wallichii, Wight. It agrees also with the genus in 
the small number of seeds in each ovary (twenty), for this is a pecu- 
liarity. The pollinia too are not to be mistaken, and are very cor- 
rectly figured in Delessert, Ic. Select. vol. v. In Marsdenia we have 
the “corolla urceolata vel subrotata,” and the same may be said of 
Heterostemma, 
(To be continued.) 
