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Spfec. Char. Tomentose shrub : branches sometimes 4-angled: 

 ieaves ojjposite or in threes, long-^etioledj dvate-obloo^i adaminatej 

 iserrulated : cymes axillary, dichotomous : flowers largish, whitish- 

 red, mixed with yellow. 



Common in the moist valleys of Chittagong. 



GiSNUS II. ^SCHYlirANTHUSi 

 Ditlynamia Angiospes-niDa. Sea;: Sysi.- 



berii). From AischunO, to be ashamed, and Aniho's, a flower. 



Qen. ChAe. Calyx vptitricOseljr tubular, 5-lobed at the apex; 

 br 6-cleft or S-parted i lobes equal ; corolla tubular, incurved j 

 limb oblique-, somewhat unequally 5-cleft, sub-bilabiate j four an- 

 ther-bearing stamens, often exserted, with the rudiment of a 

 fifth : cells of th6 anthers par&llel : bvai-y stirro'unde'd at the 

 base by a bup-shaped ring : style filiform ; stigma entire, de^ 

 pressed, hollow : capsule silicle- shaped, elongated, acuminated : 

 Valves 2, straight : placentse 2-cleffc, bilamellate, revolute at the 

 margin as ir 4-celled : seeds ilumerouSj minutfe, oblong, pendu- 

 lous, with long) few or solitary bristles at both ends. — Pseudo- 

 parasitic under-shrubs, scandent, often rooting : stems terete, 

 geniculate, glabrous : leaves opposite, J)etioled, fleshy, quite en; 

 tire, very often glabrous : pedicels terminal or axillairy, : l-2j 

 rarely many-flowered : coi'olla red. . 



(1) M. GRANDIFLORA. ( G. Dotl. ) 



Idehi. Don. Syst. IV. p; 656.— Dee. prod. IX. p. 261. 



Syn. Incarvillea parasitica, Box6.-7-Trichospormn grandiflo- 

 rum, Don. prod. Jlbr.'Nep:' p. lib.-^M. parasitica, Wall. 

 Engrav. Bot. Reg. 1861. t. 49.— Roxb. Cor. HI. t. 291. 



Spec. Char. Pseudo-parasitic on trees : leaves entire or repaha- 

 ly toothed, long-lancieolatei acuminated at boith ends, nerveless : 

 pedicels 1 -flowered, deflexed, collected into a many-flowered tej-i 

 minal umbel: calycine lobes linear-oblong: corolla ventricose at 

 the base : lobes rounded j nearly equal : stamens exserted : flowers 

 orange-red. 



Silhet mountains. 



(2) M. bracteata. (Wall.) 



. Ment. Dec. prod. IX. p. 261. 



Spec. Char. Leaves elliptic, subacute at the base, ' acuminated 

 at the apex, feather-veined : corymb terminal, somewhat panicledj 



