38 DiDYNAMiA ANGiosPERMiA. Barleritt. 



of Silliet. It is a larg-e, very ramous shrub. Flowering time 

 the cold season, during- Avhich period it is unroinrnonly gau- 

 i\y • young shoots round, jointed, hairy. Leaves opposite, 

 sessile, broad-lanceolate, entire, Iniiry, from two to three inches 

 lono-. Flowers axillary, sessile, one or tM o, rarely more than 

 three, large, of a beautiful l)right blue. Dracies from two to 

 three, subulate, hairy. Calyx four leaved ; exterior pair 

 hairy, oblong and ciliated with strong bristles ; interior pair 

 much smaller, lanceolate and hairy. Corol, tube oblong, 

 outside downy ; border two-lipped, vpper lip four-parted ; 

 the under one broader, but s-horter and entire. JSTectary a 

 two-lipped cup, embracing the lower half of the germ. Fi- 

 laments as in the family, with the addition of a small, fifth 

 sterile one, all hairy. Anthers two-parted from below. 

 Styles rather longer than the long filament. Stiyma enlarg- 

 ed, perforated between two short rounded lips. 



3. B. ciliata. Roxb. 



Unarmed, shrubby, with few long spreading branches. 

 Leaves lanceolate. Flowers axillary, sessile, solitary or in 

 pairs. 



A native of the interior parts of Bengal and from thence 

 sent by Dr. W. Carey, to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, 

 where it blossoms about the beginning of the cold season. 



Stems scarcely any, but several long* slender diflfuse, strag- 

 gling branches and branchlets, which makes it rather a nak- 

 ed plant, when compared with the species formerly described 

 by me under the name B. cristata, though 1 must now ac- 

 knowledge the species before me agrees better with Osbeck's 

 figure than that does. Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, lanceolate, 

 frequently recurved, a little hairy, entire, about two or three 

 inches long, and half an inch ])road. Flowers axillary, soli- 

 tary or in pairs, large, pink, with a slight tinge of purple. 

 Bractes ensiform, often ciliate. Calyx, leajlets two pairs ; ex- 

 terior pair lanceolate, nervose, ciliate; inner pair sm&W and 

 ensiform. Corol, upper /?/? of four broad, entire divisions; 



