Digitalis. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, 99 
Flowers axillary, solitary, short-peduncled, large, rose-co- 
loured. Bractes two, filiform, pressing on the calyx laterally. 
Calyx one-leaved, five-cleft; divisions linear, erect, perma- 
nent. Corol regular; tube sub-campanulate, two or three 
times longer than the calyx; border five-parted ; segments _ 
equal, rounded, Fi/aments four, the superior pairending ina ~ 
recurved hook, the inferior in an erect horn. Anthers linear, 
the superior pair approach archways, so that their apices 
meet ; the lower pair firmly united their whole length. Germ 
ovate. Style length of the tube. Stigma enlarged, entire. 
Capsule oblong, about as long as the calyx, two-celled, two- 
valved ; receptacde columnar. Seeds numerous. 
DIGITALIS. Schreb. gen. N. 1017. 
Calyx five-parted, irregularly campanulate, five-cleft, gib- 
bous. Capsule ovate, two-celled. 
D. stricta, 
Annual, straight, scabrous, Leaves opposite, linear, scab- 
rous, Flowers solitary. Calyse ay gre with a slit on 
the under side, 
An elegant annual species, foil on pasture iieeinda over 
Bengal. Flowering time the ramy season. 
Stem straight, from one to two feet high; branches few, 
opposite, nearly straight, all covered with much short, harsh 
_ hair; towards the apex somewhat four-sided, Leaves oppo- 
site, sessile, linear, almost entire, very scabrous, size very va- 
rious. Flowers sub-sessile, the inferior ones nearly opposite, 
the upper one alternate ; pretty large for the size of the plant. 
Bractes two pressing on the calyx laterally, they are of a lan- 
ceolate shape, and shorter than the calyx, Calyx ovate, near-— 
ly shut at the mouth, ‘five-ridged, scabrous, slit underneath. 
Corol, tube somewhat bellied, twice as long as the calyx, co- 
ee = Border of five broad —— 
