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from six to twelve inches each way. Petioles round, from four 

 to eii»ht inches loiio-. Stipn/es no other than a hairy ring- 

 round <he branchlet, attheijiserlion off he leaves. Panicles ter- 

 minal, large, cross-armed, every part thereof of a deep, bright, 

 beauHfid scarlet colour, even the floral leaves of the lower 

 ramifications. Bractes solitary, linear, recurved. Flowers 

 numerous, middle sized, scarlet coloured. Cahjx at all times 

 scarlet coloured. Corol^ divisions of the border shorter than 

 the tube, reflexed in a semi-circle over the upper side. <S'/a- 

 mens ascending'. Stigma bifid ; segments acute. 



4. V. dentata. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves round-cordate, acutely-dentate, acute ; 

 lobes rounded, and so large as to overlap each other. Pani^ 

 cles terminal, brachiate, coloured. 



An erect, very elegant shrub, of three or four feet in 

 height, a nalive of the Silhet district ; flowering- time the hot 

 and rainy season ; it has not yet ripened seed in the Botanic 

 garden, where it grows luxuriantly, and is very ornamental 

 vihen in flower. It differs from V. Kcempjera and Bncha- 

 nani in the leaves being- dentate, and from urticijblia in 

 being- a permanent shrub; besides in that species the leaves 

 are much deeper cut round the margin, and the lobes never 

 so large as even to meet. In all the four, the flowers are 

 nearly alike in size, structure and colour, viz. a very bright 

 deep scarlet. 



5. V. nrticijolia. Rn.vb. 



Herbaceous. Leaves broad cordate, acuminate, grossly and 

 acutely dentate. Panicles terminal, coloured. 



An elegant, uiiddling-sized species, a native of Pegue, 

 from thence introduced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta 

 by the Rev. F. Carey, where it blossoms in August, Septem- 

 ber and October. 



Stems herbaceous in our young- plants, simple, erect, be- 

 coming somewhat ligneous towards the base, and thinly 



