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GENUS IV. SCHMIDIA. 

 Dldynainla Angloapernila. Sex: Sytt > 



lyiriv. In honor of Dr. Bernard 'Sctmid, an Indian Botanist, 



J Gen. Char. Bracts 2, .free to the base, calyx entire, very short; 

 corolla tubular, opening obliquely : limb 5-lobed, reflexed :, sta- 

 mens suti-didyiiampus, inserted^ near the middle of the tube, in- 

 cluse : anthers 2-celled, straight, cells contiguous, parallel, pro- 

 longed below the point of attachment and each ending in a long- 

 ish subulate spur, no rudimentary filament : ovary 2-celled, with, 

 two ovules in each : stigma entire, truncated : capsule globose at 

 the base, ending in a conical beak, 2.celled : seed sub-globose, 

 flattened next the partition. 



(1) S. BICOLOR. (R- W'.} 



Ident. Wight's Icon. vol. IV. & t. 1848. 



Spec. Char. .Twining shrub: leaves opposite, broad ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, subcrenato-dentate, 3-5 nerved, glabrous : 

 racemes axillary, long, pendulous, many-flowered : bracts small, 

 subulate: bracteoles large, suborbicular, reniform at the, base, 

 niucronate (nearly an inch in diameter) when fresh oae-ha{f of a dark 

 brownish-purple, the other pale-yellowish, or cream-coloured ; cor 

 rolla tubular, exceeding the bracteoles, tight blue, the lobes of the 

 limb acutely turned back on the apex of the tube. 



Neilghcrries, below Sisparah, flowering in November and De- 

 cember. 



GENUS V. BLYTRARIA. 

 Dldynauiia Cyniiioapermla. Sex: Systs 



Deriv. From Elytron, an envelope ; alluding to the scaly stem. 



Gen. Chae. Calyx either 5-parted with the upper segment 

 broader, the twin lower ones connected a little deeper at the base, 

 or 4-parted with the upper and lower segment broader : corolla 

 2.1ipped or ringent, lower lip-3-cleft, (segments 2-cieffe) : stamens 

 two fertile, two sterile, included : cells of the anthers parallel ; 

 capsule cells many-seeded from the base : retinacula none. — SteaS- 

 less herbs: leaves radical, entire, toothed, or repand : scapes ot 

 peduncles covered in four rows by small scale-shaped leaVe^! . 

 bracts opposite, 1-flowered : bracteoles two, narrower : floweis 

 small. 



