62 DTDYNAMiA ANGiosPERMiA. Volkameria. 



covered with rough a8h-coloiired bark ; tender shoots with 

 four obtuse angles and grooved side.^, covered with vil- 

 lous green bark ; whole height from three to four feet. Leaves 

 opposite, the inferior one very long-petioled ; the superior, or 

 floral ones sub-sessile; all are broad-cordate, with the acu- 

 minate margins grossly and acutely serrate-dentate, and the 

 surfaces rather rough, the superior one with short bristles, 

 and the inferior with little peltate glandular scales; kncjth 

 and breadth from five to ten inches. Stipules none, but a 

 belt of hairs between the insertion of the petioles. Pani- 

 cles terminal, solitary, large, and broad ; composed of ex- 

 panding, opposite, several times dichotomous, highly colour- 

 ed, (scarlet,) villo«is, many-flowered ramifications. Bractes 

 small, subulate, coloured. Cahjx sub-cylindric, small for 

 a volkameria, five-parted. Segments lanceolate, villous. 

 Corol one-pelalled ; tube twice the length of the calyx, sub- 

 cylindric ; border of five, sub secund, linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 concave seoments: colour of the whole scarlet. Filaments 

 nearly equal, twice the length of the corol, coloured, smooth, 

 on the first day incurved, on the second recurved. Anthers 

 brown, incumbent. Germ oval, somewhat four-lobed, seeming- 

 ly four-celled, with one ovulum in each, but on a minute in- 

 spection there are found two, opposite, parietal receptacles, 

 which meet so exactly in the centre, as to appear a complete 

 partition, each of these divide into two. recurved, secund, ra- 

 ther incurved. Stigma of two subulate acute lobes. 



6. V. obovata. Roxb. 



imre.sobovate, entire, coriaceous, downy underneath. Pa- 

 nicle terminal, decussate, downy, the extreme ramifications, 

 lengthened, secund spikes. CaZ//.r obscurely five-toothed. 



A native of the Moluccas. 



7. V. serrata. Willd. iii. 384. 



Shrubby. Leaves sub-sessile, opposite, and tern, lanceo- 

 late, serrate, smooth. Panicle terminal, oblong, decussate. 



