34 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA,  Thunbergia. 
long by one and a half broad. Petioles about three quarters 
of an inch long, channelled, bent in various directions. — Sti- 
pules none. Peduneles axillary, solitary, one-flowered, 
round, clubbed, downy ; from one to two inches long. Brac- 
tesnone. lowers large, pure white. Perianths as in the 
genus, except that the leaves of the interior calyx are acute, 
and many-nerved, Corol salver-formed, Tube compress- 
ed, enlarged about the middle, a little hairy, longer than the 
interior calyx, bent to one side with a curve; border flat, 
five-parted ; divisions equal, obovate, with their extremities 
lobed, and generally irregularly three-toothed ; shorter than 
the tube. Germ superior, four-lobed, two-celled, with two 
ovula in each cell, attached to the middle of the partition. 
Style the length of the tube. Stigma fannel-shaped, two- 
lobed ; lobes obcordate, — 
cain celled, accion peers: tes siliclestio ni oe 
solitary, one in’ each cell, the other seldom or never ripens, 
round, rugose, vena a — cavity, which penetrates two- 
thirds of the seed. . 
Obs. Dr. Kinig 0 on aks discovering this plant, thoug ht it 
anew genus and called it Roxburghia rostrata, but as soon 
as he saw the Supplement of the younger Linnzeus, he found 
its character agree so well with that of * Thunbergia, that he 
hesitated not to declare it a species of that genus, 
The whole plant possesses a peculiar sort of agreeable frn- 7 
grance, which with the beauty of its flowers, entitles it to a 
— — in the flower gardens. y! 
& F: snindihion Roxb, 
Perennial, twining. Leaves cordate, angled. Coro! cam- 
panulate, no imer calyx. Anthers bearded and —" 
. Hind, and Beng. Meel-luta. 
‘Found amongst bushes and wild uncultivated places near 
Calcutta. Flowering time, the rainy season. 
_ Root perennial, somewhat tuberous, Stem woody, iis 
up high trees, &e,; young shoots a little hairy, and slightly 
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