GYMNEMA NAPALENSE. 
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trarium, deiuimi bipartitum, utrinque adtigeus placenlam carnosam, cQiivex&ra, seminis 
cavitateni replentem, maturitate evanidam. Semina (fig. #5. 6.) graiulia, tusca, placen- 
taeformia, imequaliter tri- vcl tetragons, scrobiculato-rugosula, scabra, dorso con vex a, 
rnarginibus subtruueatis, planiusculis, ventre concaviusculo, ad centrum uiubilico par- 
vulonotato. Integument um simplex, meuibrauaceum, arete udha3rens. Perispermum 
nullum*. 
Observation. 
'Phis beautiful species grows sometimes to a vast extent, covering large trees, and 
forming pendulous, green, thick carpets, ornamented with long testoons of scarlet 
racemes. The leaves vary considerable in figure, Irom round-cordate, to oblong, with 
hastate base. The flowers are arranged on each side ot the fascicles in a simple series, 
on the prominent, semilunar tubercles of the common peduncle, on the upper or 
convex side of which the pedicels are inserted close to each other. 
There are two other species which grow wild in Nepal ; namely, a densely vil¬ 
lous variety of Tlwnbergia fra grans, which I found on the mountains surrounding 
the great valley, in blossom and fruit during the rainy season ; it is perhaps a distinct 
species, although nearly allied to that plant, in its wild state, as it is found on the 
coasts of Coromandel and Malabar; and Thunbergin grandi/iora, Roxb. which has 
been figured in Botan. Register, vol. 6. 495. This noble climber is common in rocky 
and shady situations, in most parts of Hindostan. I have found it about Monghir 
and Rajmahl; in the Turraye of Oude, towards the foot of the bills; at Hurd war, aud 
iu Deyra Boon. It grows wild also in China, and was introduced from thence by 
John Reeves, Esq. into the Honorable Company’s botanic garden at Calcutta in 1820, 
where it thrives and blossoms luxuriantly. I took it at first to be a different plant from 
Tli . grandi/iora , the leaves of the young plants being strongly jagged and lobed ; but 
I can discover no specific difference in the full grown shrub. 
1 have lately got possession of anew and exceedingly interesting species, with deep 
purple flowers, yellow within the tube, wdiich was discovered on the Nilghirry by my 
worthy friend the Yeuerable Archdeacon Ilawtayne, and by him introduced into the 
botanic garden in 1824, where it blossomed soon afterwards, during the cold season. 
At the moment I write these lines, in January 182(3, it is extremely ornamental, being 
covered profusely with flowers, as well as with unripe capsules. The shrub is thickly 
furnished with firm and leathery, glaucous, entire and nearly sessile leaves, which con¬ 
trast beautifully with the purple inflorescence. It may be characterised in the follow¬ 
ing manner: Thunbergia Hawtayneana , Wall, scandens, lav vis, ghiuca, folds ovato- 
cordatis, obtusiusculis, subsessilibus, amplexicaulibus, coriaeeis, integerrimis ; floribus 
axillaribus oppositis; tubo elongate,limbo patentissimo;seimnibus semiglobosisjaevibus. 
Besides the above, I have a species from Madagascar, introduced by my most ex¬ 
cellent friend C.Telfair, Esq. of the Mauritius, under the name of Th. angulata, 
which seems to be different from Th. a lata , Bot. Mag. vol. 51. N. 2591. It has not yet 
blossomed. 
GY MNEMA NAPALENSE, Wall. TAB. 38. 
Volubile ; foliis ovato-oblongis, acuminatis, glabris, basi cordatis; cymis folio bre- 
vioribus : floribus densis, subuinbellatis, fauce midis. 
Legi in pluribus locis depressis et montanis, florens e mense Junii ad Novcnibrim, 
In horto botanico Calcutta floret et fructus producit sub pluviis. 
Frutex raagna, ramosissima, volubilis, vald& luctescens. Rami teretes, glaber- 
rinii, subuodosi; juniorcs pubernli, fuscescentes. Folia opposita, patentia, membra- 
nacea, glabra, oblonga, vel ovato-oblonga, acuminata, basi cordata, lobis rotundatis,nunc 
* The intricate structure of the seed, 1 shall be able to explain iu u subsequent page. 
