112 DiDYNAMiA ANGiosPERMiA. JncarvUUa. 



celled ; about twelve inches long-, by three quarters of an 

 inch broad, and one line thick. Partition parallel. Seeds 

 luinierous, round, very tiiin, surrounded with a remarkably 

 fine transparent wing^. Perispertn none. Embryo with two 

 reniform, emarginate cotyledons, and the radicle pointing 

 directly to the umbilicus. 



INCARFJLLIA. Juss. Willd. 

 Gf:n. Char. Calyx campanulate, five-parted. CoroZ with 

 an 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, winged. Embryo 

 inverse, without perisperm. 



1. \. parasitica. 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, Avhen 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. 



Stem scarcely any, but several, rather succulent, smooth 

 branches, with swelled joints, from which the fibrous roots 

 issue. Leaves opposite, or nearly so, short, fleshy, petioled, 

 lanceolar, acuminate, with the margins more or less curled, of a 

 firm, fleshy, and veinless substance, from fourtosix inches long-, 

 by one broad. Umbellets terminal, solitary, sessile, simple, 

 many flowered. Flowers large, drooping- ; colour, a beautiful 

 mixture of orange and crimson. Bractes an oblong cadu- 



