54 DJDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. RoSCOeU. 



branches, Bracles numerous, imbricated, lanceolate, cili- 

 ate, pointed. Flowers numerous, small, of a rose colour. 

 Calyx of two pairs of unequal leaflets, the exlerior pair 

 much larger, with the lower leaflets bidentate, all are hairy 

 and ciliate. Carol one-petalled, ringent; hihe gibbous, with 

 th: mouth contracted. Throat campanulate; the upper Up 

 erect, emarginate ; the under lip large, three-parted ; middle 

 division broad, emarginate, a little curled, and more deeply 

 coloured. Filaments within the throat of the corol. An- 

 thers twin. Germ ovate, elevated on a glandular receptacle. 

 Style sutficiently long to elevate the small stigma even with 

 the anthers. Capsule ovate, acute, sessile, two-celled, two- 

 lobed, bursting- with elasticity, as in Justicia, Barleria, &c. 



ROSCOEA. R. 



Gen. Char. Involucre few-flowered. Calyx tubular. Co- 

 rol irregular. Stamina very long, and distinct. Germ four- 

 celled; cells one-seeded; attachment su^^erior. Berry one- 

 seeded. Embryo erect, without perisperm. 



1 . R. pentandra. R. 



Involucre six-leaved, six-flowered. Flotvers peutandrous. 

 Stigma bifid. Leaves opposite, from ovate-oblong- to lance- 

 olate, smooth. 



K?^ngea, the Bengalee name. 



A large, climbing, permanent shrub, a native of the forests 

 near Silhet, where it flowers in February, March, and April, 

 and the seed ripens during the rains. 



Trunk ligneous, soon dividing into many long, scandent, 

 woody branches, covered with rough ash-coloured bark. 

 Branchlets opposite, the tender shoots villous ; the ligneous 

 onesscabrous, very small, and villous. Stipules nothing more 

 than a villous ridge. Panicle axillary, and terminal, the ter- 

 minal one large, and composed of several pairs of opposite, 

 spreading, four-sided, villous branches. Umhdlets opposite, 



