31 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMI A. Thunbcri/lU. 



long by one and a hiilf broad. Petioles a})Out three quarters 

 of an inch Jong, channelled, bent in various directions. Sti- 

 pules none. Pedmivles axillary, solitary, one flowered, 

 round, clubbed, downy ; from one to two inches long. Brac- 

 tes none. Fkncers .arge, pure white. Perianths as in the 

 genus, except that the leaves of the interior calyx are acute, 

 and many nerved. Corol salver-formed. Tube compress- 

 ed, enlarged about the middle, a little hairy, longer than the 

 interior cnlyx, bent to one side Avith a curve ; border flat, 

 five-parted ; divisions equal, obovate, with their exlremities 

 lobed, and generally irregularly three toothed ; shorter than 

 the tube. Germ superior, four-lobed, two-celled, with two 

 ovula in each cell, attached to the middle of the partition. 

 Style the length of the tube. Stifjma funnel-shaped, two- 

 lobed ; lobes obcordate. Capsule sub globular, flat, beaked, 

 two-celled, opening from the base with an elastic jerk. Seed 

 solitary, one in each cell, the other seldom or never ripens, 

 round, rugose, with a large cavity, which penetrates two- 

 thirds of the seed. • 



. Obs. Dr. K'ini^ on first discovering this plant, ihought it 

 anew genus and called it Roxburghia rostrala, but as soon 

 as he saw the Supplement of the younger Linnaeus, he found 

 its character agree so well with that of Thunberc/ia, that he 

 hesitated not to declare it a species of that genus. 



The whole plant possesses a peculiar sort of agreeable fra- 

 grance, which with the beauty of its flowers, entitles it to a 

 conspicuous place in the fiower gardens. 



2. T. (frandi flora. Roxb. 



Perennial, twining. Leaves cordate, angled. Corol cani- 

 panulate, no inner calyx. Anthers bearded and clavate. 



Hind, aiul Beixj. Meel-h^tei. 



Found amongst bu.^hes and wild uncultivated places near 

 Calcutta. Flowering- time, the rainy season. 



Root perennial, somewhat tuberous. Stem woody, twining 

 up high trees, &c. j young shoots a little hairy, and slightly 



