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*HINDSIA violacea. 

 Porcelain blue Hindsia. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Cinchonace^. 



HINDSIA. Calycis tubus turbinatus, limb us 4-5-partitus laciniis in- 

 sequalibus linearibus v. apice foliaceo-dilatatis. Corolla infundibuliformis, 

 tubo elongato, superne paullo inflato et inter stamina intus barbato, fauce 

 nuda, limbi laciniis 5 ovatis, sestivatione valvata. AnthercB lineares sub apice 

 tubi subsessiles. Ovarium biloculare ; placentae medio dissepimento affixse, 

 multiovulatae. Styli rami longi lineares compressiusculi papilloso-birti. 

 Capsula calyce corticata, septicide bivalvis, valvulis duris demum loculicide 



bipartitis. Semma numerosa, non alata(matura ignota). Frutices austro- 



americani. Folia opposita, petiolata, ovata v. suhlanceolata. Stipulse utrin- 

 que solitarice ovatce, integrce, v. glanduloso-dentatce intus scepius glanduloscz. 

 Flores ad apices ramorum in cymas subfoliatas dispositi, subsessiles, speciosi, 

 corollis coeruleo-violaceis. Bentbam MSS. 



H. violacea (supra, p. 40) ; moUiter pubescens, stipulis ovatis, fobis lato- 

 ovatis basi rotundatis, laciniis calycinis valde inaequalibus majoribus 

 supra medium foliaceo-dilatatis. Bentham MSS. 



" The above generic character is taken from this species 

 and from the closely allied Rondeletia longiflora of Chamisso 

 and Schlechtendahl, which may be thus characterised as a 

 second species of Hindsia. 



H, longiflora ; glabra v. tenuissime pubescens, stipulis lan- 

 ceolatis, foliis anguste ovatis basi longe acutatis, laciniis 

 calycinis parum inaequalibus non dilatatis. 



"It is much to be regretted that these plants should have 

 been referred to Rondeletia, from which they differ so much 

 in appearance, and from which they may be essentially dis- 

 tinguished by the form of the corolla, rather funnel-shaped 

 than salver-shaped, without any callous contraction or beard 

 at the mouth of the tube, by the capsule which (according to 



* See p. 40 of the miscellaneous matter of this volume. 

 August, 1844. R 



