112 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, = Incarvillia, 
celled; about twelve inches long, by three quarters of an 
inch broad, and one line thick. Partition parallel. Seeds 
numerous, round, very thin, surrounded with a remarkably 
fine transparent wing. Perisperm none. Embryo with two - 
‘reniform, emarginate cotyledons, and the radicle pointing 
directly to the umbilicus, 
INCARVILLIA. Juss. Willd. 
Gen. Cuar, Calyx campanulate, five-parted. Corol with 
van oblique gibbous tube, and unequally five-parted border. 
Germ superior, four-celled; cells many-seeded, attached to 
the involute margins of the partitions. Capsule siliqua-form, 
one-celled, four-valved, Seeds numerous, ee ‘Embryo 
ge ee withous Remeee 
A 1 L parabaica. Roxb, 
Shrubby, parasitic, smooth. Leaves opposite, lanceolar, 
veinless, fleshy. Umbels terminal. 
A native of the forests which cover the Garrow hills, where 
it is found growing on trees; but shows a partiality for such 
places as retain decayed vegetable matter. In the Botanic 
garden it grows freely in a soil composed of rotten wood and 
garden mould. Flowering time the rainy season, when no- 
thing can exceed the beauty of its numerous, large, pendu- 
lous, crimson-yellow flowers, approaching in shape and size 
to those of Digitalis purpurea, Seed ripens in September 
and October. 2 
Stem scarcely any, but scvenal rather succulent, smooth ~_ 
branches, with swelled joints, from which the fibrous roots — 
issue. Leaves opposite, or nearly so, short, fleshy, petioled, 
Janceolar, acuminate, with the margins more or less curled, ofa _ 
firm. fleshy, and veinless substance, from fourtosix incheslong, — 
by one: broad. Umbellets terminal, solitary, sessile, simple, — 
many-flowered. Flowers large, drooping ; ; coli a beautiful 
mixture of orange and crimson. Bractes an obl , cadu- 
