62 _ DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, Volkameria, 
covered with rough ash-coloured bark ; tender shoots with 
four obtuse angles and grooved ideal covered with vil- 
lous green bark ; whole height from three to four feet. Leaves 
opposite, the inferior one very long-petioled ; the superior, or 
floral ones sub-sessile; all are broad-cordate, with the acu-  _ 
minate margins grossly and acutely serrate-dentate, and the: 
surfaces rather rough, the superior one with short bristles, 
and the inferior with little peltate glandular scales; length 
and breadth trom five to ten inches. Stipules none, but a 
belt of hairs between the insertion of the petioles, Pani- 
cles terminal, solitary, large, and broad; composed of ex- 
panding, opposite, several times dichotomous, highly colour- 
ed, (scarlet,) villous, many-flowered ramifications, Bractes 
small, subulate, coloured. Calya sub-cylindrie, epee for 
a volkameria, five-parted, _ Segments lanceolate, villous, 
Corol one-petalled ; tube twice the length of the Gin, sub- 
cylindric; border of five, sub-secund, linear-oblong, obtuse, 
concave segments; colour of the whole scarlet, Filaments 
nearly equal, twice the length of the corol, coloured, smooth, 
on the first day incurved, on the second recurved. Anthers 
brown, incumbent. Germ oval, somewhat four-lobed, seeming-— 
ly four-celled, with one ovulum in each, but on a minute in- 
spection there are found two, opposite, parietal receptacles, — 
which meet so exactly in the centre, as to appear a complete — 
partition, each of these divide into two, recurved, secund, ra~ 
ther incurved, Stigma of two subulate acute lobes, 
6. V. obovata. Roxb. 
Leaves obovate, entire, coriaceous, downy underneath, Pa- 
nicle terminal, decussate, downy, the extreme ramifications, — 
lengthened, secund spikes, Calyx obscurely five-toothed. 
_ A native of the Moluccas, so! ae 
7 vy. serrata, _ Willd, iii, 384. 
Shrabby. Leaves sub-sessile, opposite, ee tern, Lausiis 
late, serrate, smooth. Panicle terminal, oblong, decussate.’ 
