Volkameria,. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, 63 
Found in Mysore by Dr. Buchanan, who sent the seeds 
to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where the plauts blossom 
during the rains. ‘ 
Trunk erect, stout, ligneous, Birenithes erect, decussate, 
or tern; young shoots smooth, four-sided. Leaves opposite, 
or tern, sub-sessile, broad-lanceolate, serrate, smooth on both 
sides; from four to eight inches long, and from one to 
three broad. Paniciles terminal, ramifications decussate, 
villous, two-forked. Bractes lanceolate, villous. Flowers 
numerous, large, two pairs of lateral segments, pale blue ; 
the lower one deep blue. Calyx obscurely five-dentate. 
Corol ; tube short, deeply divided on the upper side, incurved. 
Border of five, nearly equal, expanding divisions, placed 
on the under side. S%/aments longer than the corol, erect, 
with their extremities beautifully recurved. Anthers oval, 
Style as long as the stamens. Stigma of one long (the un- 
der), and one shorter lobe. Berry with from one to four 
lobes, smooth, succulent, when ripe of a shining black. Seeds 
one in each lobe of the berry, obovate. Coro/, tube the length 
of the calyx, villous. Border of five, unequal, segments, 
placed on the under side, the two lateral pairs oblong, of a 
very pale blue, the lower one much larger, cuneate-cordate, 
and of a much deeper colour, Filaments swelled and vil- 
lous at the base, inserted on the mouth of the tube, and rising 
erect through the vacant space on its upper side, towards 
the apex beautifully recurvate. Anthers brown, two-lobed. 
Germ roundish, having its base surrounded by a yellow 
nectarial ring, four-celled, with one ovulum in each, attached 
to the upper and exterior margins of the partitions, Style 
the length of the stamima. Stigma two-parted. Capsule near- 
ly round, of the size of a pea, somewhat four-lobed, hairy; 
when ripe dry, and then falling spontaneously into four 
equal portions. Seed solitary, obliquely oblong. Integu- 
ment single. Perisperm none. Embryo erect. Cotyledame 
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