within with a ring of hairs : limh nearly equal : stamfens 4, didyJ 

 namous, anthers bestrde'd at the Apik, 2-celIied : cells bf the loliger 

 pair nneqnal, upper ones rliverghig, tomentbse on the iiiargin of 

 the lower ones, paral'iel, about equal, both mntieous at the base : 

 stigma, membranoua , d'Jated, bilabiately 2-lobed : capsule tumid 

 at the base, abdve tap/ering to a point, 2-eelled, 4-seeded, parti-, 

 tion persistent, ac'iher.ing to the axis of the woody valves : seeda 

 ghAose, attaohefU to spongy ieup-shaped ^rotiesseS. — Procumbent 

 or twining tlni'^erFArubs : leaves opposite, entire : flowers axillary, 

 peduncled': I'lmb of the corolla deep bl)ie, tube brownkh-yellow. 



, (1) W. Hawtavneana. (Nees.) 



'ISent. Nees in Wall. PI. As. Rar. III. p. 74.— Dec. ptod. Xt. 



Syn. Thunbergia llawtaynii, JFall. tent. fior. Nep. I. p. 49. 



Enprav. Wall. 1. c. II. t. 164. — Wight's Icon. t. 1487.-^ 

 Spicil. II. t. 169. 



Spec. Char. Shrubby, procumbent, glabrous : leaves sessile, 

 cordate, acute : flowers deep purplish bhie with a yellow throat. 



Neilgherries. lyamully hills near Coimbatore. Flowering all . 

 the year. 



GENUS III. HEXACENTRlS. 

 ilidynaniia Angiospernila. Sex: St/si: 



Deriv. From Hex, six, and Kvntron, a spur ; the upper &n^ 

 thers have each one, the lower two spurs. 



Gen. Char. Calyx disk-shaped, small, limb unequally toothed 

 or repand : bf acts tWo, connate at one side) dehiscing at the 

 other, valvate, covering the calyx : corolla infundibuliform-cam- 

 panvdate, 'tiibe vexy short, limb somewhat Unequal, dbliquely 6- 

 clefl : stamens inserted at the throat of the tube where there is a 

 bearded ring : anthers erect, 2-celled, glabrous, cells parallel^ 

 contiguous, one of the upper stamens very long-spurred at the 

 base, the other shortly mucronulate, each cell of the loWei- oiiea 

 very long-spurred, spurs flexuose : rudiment of a fifth sterile sta- 

 men short, subulate : stigma 2-forked, segments truncated, folded 

 and channelled, narrower at the basfe : capsule 2-celled, 4-seeded, ' 

 beaked : seeds crested : dissepiment loosening from the valves, 

 entire, separable at the axis in two parts. — Seandent shrubs : 

 leaves toothed, glabrous : racemes axillary and terminal, many- 

 flowered : common bracts small : flowers opposite, solitary op 

 fascicled! bracteoles caducous. 



