54 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, Roscoea. 
branches. Bractes numerous, imbricated, lanceolate, cili- 
ate, pointed. Flowers numerous, small, of a rose colour, 
Calyx of two pairs of unequal leaflets, the exterior pair 
much larger, with the lower leaflets bidentate, all are hairy 
and ciliate. Corol one-petalled, ringent; tube gibbous, with 
the mouth contracted. Throat campanulate ; the upper lip 
erect, emarginate ; the under lip large, three-parted ; middle 
division broad, emarginate, a little curled, and more deeply 
coloured. Filaments within the throat of the corol. An- 
thers twin. Germ ovate, elevated on a glandular receptacle, 
Style sufficiently long to elevate the small stigma even with 
the anthers. Capsule ovate, acute, sessile, two-celled, two- 
lobed, bursting with elasticity, as in Justicia, Barleria, &e, 
- ROSCOEA. R. 
Gen. Cuar. Involucre few-flowered. Calyx tubular, Co- 
rol irregular. Stamina very long, and distinct. Germ four- 
celled; cells one-seeded ; attachment superior. Berry one- 
seeded. Embryo erect, without perisperm. 7 
sprean, 
Teee., 
ae 
1. R. pentandra, R. 
Involucre six-leaved, six-flowered. Flowers pentandrous, 
Stigma bifid. Leaves opposite, from ovate-oblong to lance- 
olate, smooth, 
‘Kungea, the Bengalee name, 
A large, climbing, permanent shrub, a native of the forests 
near Silhet, where it flowers in February, March, and April, 
and the seed ripens during the rains. 
Trunk ligneous, soon dividing into many long, scandent, 
woody jbranches, covered with rough ash-coloured bark. 
Branchlets opposite, the tender shoots villous; the ligneous — 
ones scabrous, very small, and villous, Stipules nothing more 
than a villous ridge. Panicle axillary, and terminal, the ter- 
minal one large, and composed of several pairs of opposite, 
spreading, four-sided, villous branches, Umbellets opposite, 
