42 DIDVNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. RuelHa^ 



2. R. Zei/kmica. Km. Mss. B. //. 



Shrubby, srandcnt. Leaves cordate. Racemes terminal, 

 becoming- lateral, round, i'npsnlea clavate ; seeds one or two 

 in each cell, with a ihick double, dentate margin. 



Valli upu dali. lilieed. J\[(i'. \\, t, 45. 



A native ot Coroni.uidel, and in flower and fruit great part 

 of the year. Stem not eassily distinguished from the innumer- 

 able branches, which spread or climb in every direction to a 

 very considerable extent, and by age become ligneous; the 

 parts that rest on the ground strike root at the joints ; young 

 shoots pretty smooth and somewhat four-sided. Leaves op- 

 posite, pefit)led, cordalf, entire, rather obtuse, pretty smooth, 

 texture soft, from one to three inches long. Petioles toward 

 the apex winged ; length one third that of the leaves. Ra- 

 cemes terminal, but bi coming lateral by the time the seeds are 

 ripe, as the branches lengUien on one side thereof, from six to 

 twelve inches long, slightly incurvale, round. Rachis four- 

 sided, /^lowers short pedicelled, solitary, rather remote, 

 large, white or pale blue purple ; for there are two varieties 

 constituted by the colour of (he flowers only. Bractes tern, 

 at the base of each pedicel, and one opposite to these on the 

 opposite side of the rachis, snivdl, triangular, permanent. 

 Calif X to the base five cleft. Segments ensiform, acute ; corol 

 with short tube, compressed, canipanulate throat, and sub- 

 equal border, of five nearly equal, sub-rotund segments. J^i- 

 laments, the pairs uniled below the middle. Germ sitting 

 in a fleshy nectarial cup, oblong, two-celled, Avith two seeds 

 in each. Stigma rather large, slightly two-lobed, umbilicat- 

 ed. Capsules clavate, villous, a full inch long. Seeds one 

 or two in each cdl, rugose, with tliick, double, dentate mar- 

 gins. The rest as in other Acanthoidece, 



3. R. racemosa. Roxb. 



Herbaceous, erect, the tender parts villous. Leaves petiol- 

 ed, broad-lanceolafe, rather blunt, entire. Racemes termi- 

 nal, Corol cylindric, canipanulate; divisio7is oi the border 



