Digitalis. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERJIIA. 99 



Flowers axillary, solitary, sliort-ped uncled, large, rose-co- 

 loured. Bractes two, filiform, pressiuoon the calyx laterally. 

 Calfix one-leaved, five-cleft; divisions linear, erect, perma- 

 nent. Corol regular ; tube sub-campanulate, two or three 

 times longer than the calyx ; border five-parted ; segments 

 equal, rounded. Filaments four, the superior pair ending- in a 

 recurved hook, the inferior in an erect horn. Anthers linear, 

 the superior pair approach archways, so that their apices 

 meet ; the loioer pair firmly united their whole length. Genn 

 ovate. Style length of the tube. Stir/ma enlarged, entire. 

 Capsule oblong, about as long as the calyx, two-celled, two- 

 valved ; receptacle columnar. Seeds numerous. 



DIGITALIS. Schrch. gen. N. 1017- 

 Calyx five- parted, irregularly campanidate, five-cleft, gib- 

 bous. Capsule ovate, two-celled. 



D. strict a. 



Annual, straight, scabrous. Leaves opposite, linear, scab- 

 rous. Flotcers solitary. Calyx pitcher-shaped, with a slit on 

 the under side. 



An elegant annual species, found on pasture ground over 

 Beno-al. Flowering- time the rainy season. 



Stem straight, from one to two feet high; branches fevf, 

 opposite, nearly straight, all covered with much short, harsh 

 hair; towards the apex somewhat four-sided. Leaves oppo- 

 site, sessile, linear, almost entire, very scabrous, size very va- 

 rious. Flowers sub-sessile, the inferior ones nearly opposite, 

 the upper one alternate ; pretty large for the size of the plant. 

 Bractes two pressing on the calyx laterally, they are of a lan- 

 ceolate shape, and siiorter than the calyx. Calyx ovate, near- 

 ly shut at the mouth, five-ridged, scabrous, slit underneath. 

 Corol, tube somewhat bellied, twice as long* as the calyx, co- 

 lour a deep purplish red. Border of five broad, nearly equal, 

 obcordate, rose-coloured divisions. Filaruents vfooWy. An- 



