TImnbergia. didynamia angiospermia. 33 



pressed closely together, linear, very hairy. Capsule oblong*, 

 ovate, smooth, size of an acorn, two-celled, two-valved, Sec. 

 as in Bdileria and Justicia. Seeds two in each cell, ob- 

 liquely cordate, compressed. 



2. A. mudaraspatensis. Willd. iii. 400. 



Herbaceous, spreading flat on the ground. Leaves qua- 

 tern, sessile, elliptic, sometimes remotely serrate. Flowers 

 axillary, solitary, sessile. Exterior caltjx of four pair of un- 

 equal, cuneate, ciliate leaflets; i\iQ inner one of two pair, not 

 ciliate. 



A native of Coromandel, where it flowers in the cold season. 



THUNBERGIA. Schreh. gen. N. 1058. 



Cahix double ; the exterior one two-leaved. Corol irrejiu-- 

 lar, one-petal led. Germ two-celled ; cells two-seeded ; attach^ 

 ment interior. Capsules with a long ensiform beak, two-cell- 

 ed, o|)ening with elasticity contrary to the partition. Seeds 

 solitary or paired. Embryo concave, with unequal cotyle- 

 dons, and no perisperm. 



1. T.fraf/rans. Willd. iii. 388. Corom. pi. N. 67. 



Shrubby, twining, round. Leaves opposite, narrow. 



Teling. Zeamandaree Tiga. 



This plant is common in hedges, amongst bushes, &c. on 

 the banks of water courses about Samulkota. I have not 

 met with it elsewhere. Flowers during the wet and cold sea- 

 sons; when cultivated it flowers all the year round. 



Root, consisting of many thick, woody fibres. Stem and 

 branches twining, woody, of considerable extent, two or 

 three fathoms, jointed, and swelled there from the insertions 

 of the leaves or their cicatrices, round ; bark of a light ash- 

 colour; yomif/ shoots downy. Leaves opposite, petioled, 

 narrow, cordate, acute, behind toothed and slightly lobate, or 

 angular, three-nerved, slightly scabrous, about three inches 



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