56 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, Roscoea, 
pointed, with short hairs on the upper surface, and the under 
one downy, from two to eight inches long, and from one to 
five broad; those accompanying the ramifications of the in- 
florescence are very small, more pubescent and coloured, in 
fact they may be called bractes, Stipules a connecting ridge 
only, extending through the division of the inflorescense, 
Panicles axillary, large, downy, generally composed of a 
few opposite pairs of branches, bearing single, opposite, 
Jong-peduncled involucred umbellets of small white flowers, 
Bracies no other than the floral leaves above-mentioned. 
Mnvolucre three-leaved, from five to ten-flowered; leaflets 
spreading, sessile, oblong, veined, often emarginate or retuse, 
tomentose, much longer than the flowers; those on the inside 
of the base next to the flowers hairy like the calyx. Pe: 7 
ianth proper, ¢ campanul jot 
‘és 
‘i aoe thin the free Border of two unequal lips ; one, 
viz. the interior one in all the exterior flowers in the same 
umbellet, is divided into three short, rounded segments ; the 
other, or exterior one, as long as the tube, and deeply divided 
into two obovate segments, Filaments four, more than twice — 
the length of the corol, variously contorted; the pair next 
the long lip shorter, Anthers two-lobed. Germ superior, | 
oblong, two-celled, each cell half divided by two incomplete 
partitions, which project from the centre of the complete par- 
tition, containing four seeds attached to the upper end of the — 
angle formed by the partitions. Style as long as the stamina, 
Stigma bidentate, : 
3. R. tomentosa, R. 
Involucre three-leaved, from six to nine-flowered, Stig- : 
ma entire. Leaves opposite, cordate. — , bots 
An immense, climbing shrub, or I may say tree, a native 
of forests of Chittagong, where it blossoms in March, 
Bark of the large trunk, and old igneous. branches, scab- 
_yrous and ash-coloured, of the young shoots tomentose. Leaves 
opposite, short-petioled, cordate, entire, more or r Tess villous, 
