Volkameria. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, 6] 
from six to twelve inches each way. Petioles round, from four 
to eight inches long. Stipules no other than a hairy ring 
round the S endless at the insertion of the leaves. Panic/es ter- 
minal, large, cross-armed, every part thereof of a deep, bright, 
beautiful scarlet colour, even the floral leaves of the lower 
ramifications. Bractes solitary, linear, recurved. Flowers 
numerous, middle-sized, scarlet coloured, Calyx at all times 
scarlet coloured, Corol, divisions of the border shorter than 
the tube, reflexed in a semi-circle over the upper side, Sta- 
mens ing. Stigma bifid ; segments acute, 
vr v Sedlaaien R. es 
Shrubby. » Leaves istadiliesladga toasienliatain, acute ; 
lobes rounded, and so larg‘e as to overlap each other. Pani- 
cles terminal, brachiate, coloured. 
An erect, very elegant shrub, of three or four feet i in 
height, a native of the Silhet district ; flowering time the hot 
and rainy season ; it has not yet ripened seed in the Botanic 
garden, where it grows luxuriantly, and is very ornamental 
when in flower. It differs from V. Kempfera and Bucha- 
nani in the leaves being dentate, and from urticifolia in 
being a permanent shrub; besides in that species the leaves 
are much deeper cut round the margin, and the lobes never 
so large as even to meet. In all the four, the flowers are 
nearly alike in size, structure and colour, viz, a very bright 
deep scarlet. 
5. V. urticifolia, Roxb. 
Herbaceous, Leaves broad-cordate, acuminate, grossly and 
acutely dentate. Panicles terminal,coloured. 
An elegant, middling-sized species, a native of “ine 
from thence introduced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta 
by the Rey. F. Carey, where it blossoms in Sorts Renter: : 
ber and October. iwi , 
