oil 



e. 



GEKUS XIY. HOLMSKIOLDIA. 



Dldynainia Ang^lospermia. Sex: Syst; 



Deriv. Named in Honour of Theodore Holmskiold, a Danishi 

 botanical author. 



Gen. Chae, Calyx membranaceous, coloured, dilated from a 

 very short tube with a large spreading subrotate campanulate 

 entire limb : corolla 2-lipped, tube elongated, lightly incurved, 

 glabrous within,, throat somewhat dilated, upper lip of the limlx 

 2l-cleft, segments erecto-patent, lower 3-oleft, lateral segmenta 

 small, reflexed, middle one ovate, spreading : stamens four, exsert- 

 ed, ascendent, lower ones longer, upper filaments dilated : anthers 

 2-celled, cells parallel, adnate to the conneotivum by the back : 

 style nearly equalling the stamens, stigma with one of the feet 

 very short, acutish : ovary 4-celled, cells 1-ovuled : ovule pendu- 

 lous : drupe ( ?) seated at the bottom of the calyx, sometirhat 

 fleshy, 4-lob.ed, 2-stoned, stones 2-celled. 



(1) H. SANGUINEA. {RetS.) 



Ident. Retz. obs. 6. p. 31.— Dec. prod. XI. p. 696; 



Syn. H. rubra, Pers. — Hastingia coccinea, Smith. — iPIatunium 

 Tubrum, Juss.. 



Engrav. Smith's Exot. Bot. II. t. 8a. — Decaisnein Voy. Jacqu- 

 em. part. bot. t. 140. 



Spec. Char. Shrub: branches brachiately divaricated, tetra- 

 gonal ; leaves opposite, ovate, acuminate, rounded from the base, 

 almost quite entire or slightly crenato-sercate, the teeth very shortly 

 apiculated, pubescent on the nerves beneath: panicles axillslry, 

 nearly equalling the petiole, loose : cymelets 3-flowered, occasionally 

 reduced to one flower : calyx and corolla scarlet. 



Hindostan. Silhet. 



GENUS XV. HEMIGYMNIA. 

 Pentandria Jllonogyiila. Sex. Syat, 



Deriv. From Hemisus, half, and Gymnos, naked. 



Gen. Char. Calyx' fimnel-shaped, striated, 5-toothed : tube of 

 the corolla fuimel-shaped, segments five, narrow, twice as long as 

 the tabe : stamens five, equal, enclosed : ovary 4-celled, 4-ovuled : 

 ovules solitary, ascending : style 2-cleft deciduous deeply 2.part- 

 ed, inner face stigmatose : fruit (immature) drupaceous, rostrato- 

 cuspidate, half girt by the cupuliform calyx. 



