a new Natural Order of Plants. 43 



but afterwards diverge from each other. Ovary surrounded 

 by a fleshy nectarial ring, which is marked with five lobes. 

 Style nearly as long as the stamina. Stig?na sub-bilabiate. 

 Capsule silique-shaped, eight to ten inches long, two-valved, 

 two-celled ; cells bipartite by the revolute lobes of the septa ; 

 dissepiments composed of two laminae easily separable. 

 Seeds very numerous, attached to the inner surface and 

 edge of the lobes, small, oblong, furnished with a long thread 

 or awn at each end, and having a rounded apophysis 

 above. 



2. jEschynanthus radicans. 



A. caule radicante, calycibus villosis. 



Simbar burong. Malay. 



Found in the forests of the interior of Sumatra growing on the 



trunks of old trees, with its root sometimes on the ground, 



sometimes on the tree. 



Branches long and slender, radicating at the joints. Leaves 

 opposite, short-petioled, varying from ovate to elliptic- 

 lanceolate, sometimes almost cordate at the base, acute, 

 very entire, the margins somewhat reflexed, villous, thick, 

 fleshy and veinless, whitish, and finely punctate with de- 

 pressed dots beneath ; from one to two inches long. The 

 old leaves become quite smooth, particularly on the upper 

 surface. Peduncles axillary, sometimes also terminal, gene- 

 rally two-flowered, villous. Flowers drooping, of a deep 

 crimson colour. Bracts two, at the base of the pedicels. 

 Calyx tubular, villous ; mouth quinquefid. Corolla more 

 than twice as long as the calyx, villous without ; tube gib- 

 bous at the base, contracted opposite the middle of the 

 calyx, infundibuliform above and somewhat curved ; limb 

 subringent; upper lip erect, two-lobed; segments small 

 and approximate, lower three-parted. Stamina four, ex- 



G 2 sert; 



