48 DIDYNA^IIA ANGIOSPERMIA. RneUici. 



A shrubby species, a native of the mountains. Stems se- 

 veral, wootly, straight, spreading-, round, smooth, jointed ; 

 length and thickness various. Bark light, asli coloured. 

 Branches few, stem-like. Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate, 

 serrate, pointed, pretty smooth. Peduncles axillary, so- 

 litary, one-flowered, or in luxuriant plants they are on small 

 axillary racemes, like leafy branchlets. Bractes two, oppo- 

 site, sessile, cordate, pointed, concave, chiefly veined; with- 

 in them the proper five-parted perianth is hid. Flower white, 

 large. Corol ; tube gibbous; border sub-equal. Anthers 

 twin, the lower point of each ends in an incurved spur. Cap- 

 sule oval, two-seeded. 



14. H.J'asciculata. Willd. m. p. 1. 369. 



Suffrutex, very ramous, diffuse. Leaves sub-rhombiform, 

 decurrent, pointed, serrate. Spikelets sub-panicled. Carols 

 ringent; tube gibbous ; anthers twin. 



A small, diffuse, very ramous, under shrub, a native of the 

 hilly country. Flowers during- the cold season. 



Root perennial. Stems and branches numerous, and are so 

 interuiixed that there is no making a distinction ; difl^iise, those 

 next the g-round strike root at the joints, four seeded, a little 

 hairy, from one to two feet long. L^eaves opposite, petioled, 

 oblong-, pointed, with the anterior margins serrate, running- 

 down to near the base of the petiole, a little downy, from 

 two to three inches long, and from one to two broad. Spike- 

 lets ovate, small, numerous, panicled, peduncled, axillary, 

 and terminal. Bractes lanceolate, imbricate. Floivers nu- 

 merous, small, white. Corol grinning- ; tube bellied, contract- 

 ed at the mouth ; upper lip short, einarginate ; the under one 

 broader and three-parted. Filaments inserted into the mouth 

 of the tube. Anthers twin, the superior pair oblong-, and 

 placed laterally ; the injerior globular, one above the other. 



15. R. imbricata. Willd. iii. 366. 



Perennial, diftuse. Leaves long--petioled, obliquely ovate. 



