Roscoea., DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, 655 
solitary, long-peduncled. Bractes like the Jeaves, but much 
smaller and villous, one under each of the opposite pe- 
duncles, which support the umbellets. Jnvolucre six-leaved, 
and about six-flowered ; /eaflets spreading, linear, obtuse, 
smooth, veined, much Jonger than the flowers, lowers ses- 
- sile, purple, inodorous, Perianth proper, campanulate, en- 
tire, ribbed, villous, permanent. Corol one-petalled ; tube 
short ; throat very woolly. Border of five or six spreading, 
sub-rotund, nearly equal divisions, /i/aments five, or some- 
times six, corresponding withthe segments of the border of the 
corol, unequal, inserted within the mouth of the tube, much 
longer than the corol and variously bent. .4nthers two-lobed, 
cordate, Germ superior, hairy, two-celled, the cells more than 
half divided by incomplete partitions which project from the 
centre of the complete one. Ovula four, one in each cell, at- 
tached from the apex to the top of the axis. Style the length 
ofthe stamina. Stigma bifid. Berry superior, globular, hairy ; 
half hid in the calyx, of the size of a small pea, one-celled. 
Seed solitary, conform to the berry. Integuments two, The 
exterior one is the cortex of the berry ; the interior one mem- 
branaceous. Perisperm none. Embryo erect. Cotyledons con- 
form to the seed, nearly equal, the line of Mh saberetens serpen- 
tine. Radicle small, inferior, we erate 
2. BR: sidien: R. ; 
Involucre three-leaved, from five to ten-flewored, Stiga 
bidentated. Leaves opposite, cordate, downy. Anthers two- 
lobed. Stigma slightly two-parted. Berry dry, top-shaped, 
four-partible, each part one-seeded. 
The leaves of these plants have a strong, heavy, disagree- 
able smell ; they are used for fomentation by the natives. 
A stout extensive, scandent shrub; it is a native of Pegue 
in the vicinity of Rangoon, The Rev. F. Carey found it 
common in the hedges. The young shoots are round and — 
densely clothed with: Sight brown, soft, short ~ nce, 
