386 Dr Graham's List of Bare Plants. 



fmd scarcely tapers at all. In almost every other respect the descrip- 

 tion of Eoxburgh, where it docs not contradict itself, is minutely ap- 

 plicable to our plant, very imperfectly indeed to his figure, Avhich also 

 differs greatly from the specimen I now describe. It is probable thnt 

 the difference in the form of the stem arises from the age of the re- 

 spective plants when they floAvered. The figure in the Coromandcl 

 Plants is probably taken from a plant which llowered in the Botanic 

 Garden, Calcutta, thirty-three months after the seeds from a; hence it 

 sprung Avere sown; our plant blossomed in the end of August 1G40, 

 fourteen months after the seed from which it sprung was put into 

 the gTOuud. 

 Every one who has visited the Botanic Garden for some years past, has 

 been struck with the brilliant success which has attended the cultiva- 

 tion of the many forms of Banana under the judicious management 

 of Mr M'Nab, and the great quantity of high-flavoured fruit which has 

 been produced; but nothing has afforded a greater triumph than the 

 rapid perfection of this beautiful species from imported seed, though 

 we learn from Dr lloxburgh that it does not yield a fruit which can 

 be eaten, but one which resembles a dry capsule, rather than a berry. 

 We learn from the same authority, that it is a native of the valleys in 

 the southern part of the Peninsula of India. In cultivation in the 

 Botanic Garden, this and all the varieties of fruit-bearing Bananas 

 have been planted in large tubs containing extremely rich soil, have 

 had much water, and been kept in great heat. The flower bud, as 

 I have proved by cutting down full grown plants of Mnsa rosacea and 

 CavancUsii, and I think also of 31. jyaradisaica, remains at the root till 

 a time after the plant has attained its full size varying according to 

 its treatment, and then pushes its way upwards — its appearance at 

 the top of the stem being preceded by the evolution of one or more 

 leaves smaller than the rest. 



Orthosiphon. 



Generic Character. — Calyx ovato-tubulosus, 5-dentatus, dentis su- 

 perioris ovato-membranacei marginibus decurrentibus alatus, post 

 anthesin deflexus. Corolla tubo exserto recto vel incurvo, nee gib- 

 boso, nee defracto, fauce a3quali vel rarius inflata, bilabiata, labio 

 superiore 3-4 fido, inferiore integerrimo concave. Stamina 4, de- 

 clinata. Filamenta libera, edentula. Antherao ovato-reniformes, 

 loculis confluentibus. Stylus apice clavato-capitatus, subinteger 

 vel breviter emarginatus, stigmatibus in emarginatura subconfluenti- 

 bus, nunc minutis, nunc incrassato-capitatis. Achenia minutissime 

 pimctulato-rugosa. 



Herbce perennes, suffruticesve. llacemi simplices, sa?pius elongati, 

 rarissime ovato-spiciformes. Verticillastri sex-flori, distantes, laxi. 

 Folia floralia bractea3formia, ovata, acuminata, reflexa, pedicellis 

 scepius breviora. Pedicelli fructiferi recurvi. — Benth. Labiat. 25. 



Orthosiphon incurvus, caule basi procumbente adscendente, foliis pe- 

 tiolatis, oblongis, crenatis, utrinque angustatis, tenuissimepubescen- 

 tibus ; verticillastris subsecundis ; corollis villosis, incurvis, calyce 

 triple longioribus, fauce subaequali ; staminibus corollam subsequan- 

 tibus — Benth. 



Orthosiphon incurvus. — Benth. Wall, PI. As. Rar. ii. 1 5. Ibid. Labiat. 28. 

 Description — Stem suffruticose, erect, branched. Leaves (3 inches 

 long, 1| inches broad) ovate, petiolate, bright green, paler behind, 

 rough on both surfaces, coarsely serrato-crenate, entire and wedge- 

 shaped at the base, middle rib and oblique veins strong and very per- 

 manent behind, transverse reticulations, distinct, though much moie 



