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the middle of their length. Ca yx exceedingly short, and completely 
concealed within the bractez, with five very short broad divisions, or 
rather teeth. Corouua obliquely funnel-shaped, of a deep purple, the 
tube twice as long as the bracteole, the limb spreading and divided 
into five broadly-obcordate divisions nearly equal to each other. Cap- 
SULE rigid, smooth, about an inch long. 
Poputar anp GeocraPuicat Notice. The genus selected by the 
younger Linneus, to do honour to Thunberg, was appropriately taken 
from the Cape Flora, which contains three or four species of these 
beautiful climbers, and to these about a dozen East Indian species 
ave been added. - Subsequently, Nees von Esenbeck, in work- 
ing up the Acanthacee of the East Indian collections distributed by 
_ Dr. Wallich, observed differences in the structure of the anthers which 
induced him to separate the Thunbergia Hawtayneana of Wallich, as 
a distinct genus under the name of Meyenia, and three others, includ- 
ing the Thunbergia coccinea, under that of Hexacentris, considering 
the three together as the tribe of Thunbergiew. We have in this re- 
spect followed the above-named distinguished botanist, although it does 
appear to us that so long as the total number of species remains 
so smal], and they resemble each other so much in habit, it would 
have been better to have kept the genus of Thunbergia for the whole 
of them, dividing it into so many sections, which would have equally 
answered the purposes of science, and created Jess confusion in nomen- 
clature. The present species, a native of the mountains of the Indian 
Peninsula, differs indeed from the true Thunbergias in the colour of 
the flowers, but that is variable in the old genus as even now limited, 
and there is nothing else in its general appearance to enable one to 
recognize this Meyenia as distinct from Thunbergia without a close 
examination of the anthers. G. 
InTRoDUCTION; WHERE GRowN; CuLture. This very splendid 
shrubby twiner was lately introduced to our gardens by his Grace the 
Duke of Northumberland, it having been received from Dr. Wallich ; 
and by His Grace's obliging permission was drawn by our artist from 
a plant in the stove of Sion House gardens, Cuttings of half-ripened 
wood strike root freely in sand, under a bell-glass ; but when these are 
potted off into loam and peat, the pots should be plunged, and other 
care taken to prevent irregularity of moisture. When established, 
they will demand but little attention. : 
Derivation or THE NAMES 
—— in honour of Dr. Meyen, a distinguished Presiai botanist and tra- 
sn laa after Hawtayne, who first gathered this ox in the 
Nilgherry H 
Syn 
THUNBERGIA HAWTAYNEANA. wilh: hie Asiatice Rariores, v. 2, p. 52, 
MEYyeENia HAWTAYNEANA, Nees von Esenbeck in the same work, v. 3, p. 78. 
