Holmskioldia. | VERBENACEX. as Oe 
Corolla tubular-2-lipped, the tube elongate, slightly curved, some- 
what dilated at the throat, the upper lip 2-cleft, with the lobes 
erect-spreading, the lower 3-cleft with short reflexed lobes. Sta- 
mens 4, didynamous, exserted. Ovary 4-celled, with a solitary 
almost pendulous ovule in each cell; style almost simple, with a 
short lateral lobe. Fruit a 4-or by abortion 3-2-lobed capsule 
surrounded at the base by the very large explanate calyx, and 
separating into as many 1-seeded valves as lobes.—Scandent shrubs, 
with opposite simple leaves. Flowers in short terminal panicles or 
spuriously axillary racemes. 
1. H, sanguinea, Retz.; Brand. For. Fl. 370.—A large scandent 
“shrub, the younger shoots puberulous ; leaves more or less ovate to 
elliptically ovate, acute at the rounded base, on a slender puberulous 
petiole 3-1 in. long, 2-3 in. long, acuminate, slightly serrate, mem- 
branous, while young minutely pubescent beneath ; flowers middling- 
sized, nearly an inch long, crimson, on long, slender, almost filiform 
minutely pubescent pedicels, forming a rather short, puberulous, 
little-branched panicle at the end of the branches or reduced to 
short racemes at the end of axillary short shoots ; calyx about 3 in. 
mm diameter, explanate-orbicular,. glabrous, chartaceous and net- 
veined, turning green and finally brown with ripening of the fruit ; 
capsule obovate, 4- or fewer-lobed, black, about 4-5 lin. long. 
Has.—Dry forests, especially the mixed ones of the Prome district; also 
Ava,—Fr, March.—l.—S$.=CaS. All. 
GLOSSOCARYA, Wall. 
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