278 LABIATE. [ Colguhounia. 
the lower ones shorter; anthers 2-celled, the cells afterwards diva- 
ricate. Style unequally 2-cleft, the lobes subulate. Achenes ob- 
long, dry, smooth, at the apex membranously produced.—Scandent 
or straggling shrubs, often tomentose. Flowers crimson or dull- 
purple, in lax axillary half-whorls or rarely crowded into a terminal 
spike. - Bracts minute. | 
1. C. elegans, Wall.—A scandent or half-scandent shrub, all 
softer parts pilose-pubescent ; leaves ovate, shortly petioled, rounded 
or obtuse at the base, acuminate or acute, 14-23 in. long, erenate- 
serrate, membranous, pubescent on both sides (more so beneath) ; 
flowers middling-sized, orange-coloured, crimson-dotted, very ae 
pedicelled, fascicled in the axils of the leaves or as often the half- 
whorls crowded and terminating axillary branchlets and appearing 
spiked ; calyx pilose-pubescent, about 3 lin. deep, the lobes subulate, 
about 2 lin. long ; corolla curved, about 4 in. long, pubescent outside. 
Hap.—Frequent in the damp hill forests of Martaban, at 4,000 to 5,000 ft. ; 
elevation ; Ava, Kakhyen hills.—Fl. Fr. March.—s.—SS8.—Metam. 2 
Ae oe 
NYCTAGINEZ. 
nate, simple. Flowers solitary or in clusters or umbels, the bracts : ! 
ee PISONIA, Plum. ie 
Perianth in hermaphrodite flowers contracted above the ovaryy 
in the males bell-shaped and in the females ovoid or cylindrical, the 
