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distinct in whole or in part. Cryptostegia is, however, 

 conceived by Mr. Brown to be the link by which the two 

 orders connect through his genus Cryptolepis, also a native 

 of India and a climber. 



The name was suggested to Mr. Brown by the circum- 

 stance of the enclosure of the five-scaled crown within the 

 tube of the corolla, and its not being exposed to view, as in 

 other bordering genera. 



Bot. Reg. 435 (1820). 



BuRCHELLiA. Capitulum involucratum. Cor. clavato- 

 infundibuliformis : limbo 5-fido abbreviato fauceque itn- 

 berbi ; sestivatione mutuo imbricata contorta. Stamina 

 supra medium tubi inserta ; antheris subsessilibus inclusis. 

 Stigma clavatum. Bacca calyce alte 5-fido coronata, bilo- 

 cularis, polysperma. Brovm MSS. 



Frutex ramosissimus pubescens, ramulis compressis. Folia 

 opposita. Stipulae interpetiolares, e dilatatd basi subulatce, 

 indiviscB, caducce. Capitulum terminale, extra involucrum 

 mono2)hyllum pluridentatum abbreviatum, pari unico foliorum 

 minorum stipulis proportionatim latioribus subtensum . Ovaria 

 supra receptaculum convexum villoswn bracteolisque non- 

 nullis m.inutissimis conspersum sessilia, distincta. Calyx : 

 Umbo foliaceo eequali, tubum aliquoties super ante. Corolla 

 coccinea, extus pilis appressis, intus glabra preeter barbam 

 annularem juxta basi)ii tubi. Antherse lineares. Discus 

 epigynus carnosus, indivisus, imberbis. Stigma exsertum, 

 utrinque sulco ewaratum. Bacca turbinato-globosa, bilocularis 

 septo completo. Placenta adnata. Semina angulata. Em- 

 bryo axilis, dimidio albuminis cartilaginei longior. Brown 

 MSS. 



Burchellia capensis. Brown MSS. 



By its original observer the species had been ranked 

 under the head of Lonicera, but was afterwards referred to 

 its true station in Bubiacece; though that learned botanist, 

 in adopting an erroneous description, representing the seeds 

 of the berry as solitary, has placed the plant in a wrong 

 section of the order. Mr. Brown having proved it not to 

 be consistently reducible to any established genus, has 



