| 80 THE MYSORE HEXACENTRE. 
another with the upper or first flowers dropped, and a large cluster suspended at the end of a flower- 
stalk of about the same length. It is added that, before the plant is out of bloom, the pendulous 
flower-stalks are from two to two and a half feet long. 
Whatever may be thought of the so-called species, which Professor Nees von Esenbeck has 
separated from the original Heracentris coccinea, Dr. Wallich's Thunbergia coccinea, nobody will 
question the entire novelty of the plant before us, whose small not leafy bracts, large corollas, and 
shaggy not smooth anthers, indicate a totally different organisation. 
The genus Hexacentris, which signifies six spurs, is named in allusion to two of its stamens 
having one spur each proceeding from the base of the anthers, while the other two have each 
two spurs. 
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