Roscoea. didynamia angiosi'krmia. 55 



solitary, long'-peduncled. Bractes like tbe leaves, but much 

 smaller and villous, one under eacb of die opposite ])o- 

 duncles, which support tbe unibellets. Involucre six-leaved, 

 and about six-lloAvered ; leaflets spreading-, linear, obtuse, 

 smooth, veined, nuich longer than the flowers. Flowers ses- 

 sile, purple, inodorous. Perianth proper, campanulate, en- 

 tire, ribbed, villous, permanent. Carol one-petalled ; tube 

 short ; throat very woolly. Border of five or six spreadino-, 

 sub-rotund, nearly equal divisions. Filaments five, or some- 

 times six, corresponding with the segments of the border of the 

 corol, unequal, inserted within the mouth of the tube, much 

 longer than the corol and variously bent. .Anthers two lobed, 

 cordate. Germ superior, hairy, two celled, the cells more than 

 half divided by incomplete partitions which project from the 

 centre of the complete one. Ovula four, one in each cell, at- 

 tached from the apex to the top of the axis. Style the lenoth 

 oft he stamina. .S^ma bifid, fierny superior, globular, hairy ; 

 half hid in the calyx, of the size of a small pea, one-celled. 

 Seed solitary, conform to the berry. Integuments two. The 

 exterior one is the cortex of the berry ; the interior one mem- 

 branaceous. Perisperm none. Embryo erect. Cotyledons con- 

 form to the seed, nearly equal, the line of separation serpen- 

 tine. Radicle small, inferior. 



2. R. villosa. R. 



Involucre three-leaved, from five to ten-flowered. Stigma 

 bidentated. Leaves opposite, cordate, downy. Anthers two- 

 lobed. Stigma slightly two-parted. Berry dry, top-shaped, 

 four-partible, each part one-seeded. 



The leaves of these plants have a strong, heavy, disagree- 

 able smell; they are used for fomentation by the natives. 



A stout extensive, scandent shrub; it is a native of Pegue 

 in the vicinity of Rangoon. The Rey. F. Carey found it 

 common in the hedges. The young shoots are round and 

 densely clothed with light brown, soft, short pubescence. 

 Leaves opposite, short-petioled, cordate, entire, somewhat 



