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Hastingia, DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 65 
dark brown. Pulp in large quantity, somewhat spongy. Seed 
in each division of the capsule, oblong, tapering towards the 
base. IJnteqguments two, both soft, thin and white. Perisperm 
none, Embryo erect, Cotyledons conform to the seed, equal, 
Plumula two-lobed. Radicle inferior, the whole much like 
Clerodendrum inerme. Gert, i.t, 57. | 
HASTINGIA. Kénig’s Mss. : 
Calyx coloured, much expanded, almost entire. _Corol 
with a long, curved tube, and unequally divided border. 
Germ superior, seems four-celled ; cells one-seeded ; attach- 
ment sub-interior. Capsule four-lobed, four- partibles lobe. 
one-seeded. Embryo erect, without perisperm, as, 
1. H. coccinea, Kon. Mss, Smith’s Exotic Botany, 100. 
Leaves cordate, serrate... Panicles terminal, 
Holmskioldia sanguinea, Willd, iii. 360. 
This most elegant plant was brought originally from 
China, though a native of the interior parts of Bengal also.. 
At the Botanic garden it grows to be a small tree if trained 
up with single stem, but if left alone, the branches spread 
far every way from the base of the stem close upon the 
earth, and strike root. The bark is ash-coloured and tolera- 
bly smooth. Flowering time the cold season, at w hich. pe- 
riod scarcely any plant can exceed it in beauty. It grows 
readily trom cuitings. 
Branches very numerous, brachiate, while young some- 
what four-sided, and alittledowny. Leaves opposite, petiol- 
ed, cordate, serrate, long, pointed, a little downy, from three to. 
four incheslong. Petioles one fourth the length of the leaves, 
downy. Stipules none. Panicles on compound racemes, ter- 
minal, brachiate. Peduncles and pedicels alittle hairy. Brae- 
tes, the larger ones petioled, cordate, the smaller lanceolate. 
Flowers numerous, pretty lenge, ofa pusher carlet co. 
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