ckawfordia fascjculata. 
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dissepiments, which arc parallel, not contrary. From Streptopus the genus is distinct 
by its fruit, which is not a berry. Thunbergs Lruladn hirta may perhaps be this 
plant, and 1 have accordingly quoted it as a doubtful synonymou. 
CRAWFURDIA, Wall 
Calyx tubulosus, quinquedentatus. Corolla tubulosa vel campanuiata, limbo 
quinquefido, cum vel absque lobulis accessoriis. Filamenta dilatata, e basi corolUc. 
Anthem’ erecte. Discus hypogynus quinquelobus. Stylus erectus. Stigmata duo, 
recurva. Capsula clavata, compressa, pedunculata, calyce coroll&que emarcidis ob- 
tecta, unilocularis, ad basin usque bivalvis, raids prope margines seminiferis. Semina 
verticalia, imbrieata, niembranaceo-niarginata, bine biloba. 
Classis Linncana : Pentandria monogynia , seetio fioribus mouopetalis, infer is, 
fructu capsulari. 
Ordo uaturalis: Gentianea *, Juss. 
Habitus: Herbie glaberririiie, volubiles, ramis eiougatis, graeillimis; foliis oppo- 
sitis, trinerviis; tloribus axilluribus, solitariis vel fasciculatis, niagnis, speciosis, dilute 
cceruleis. 
Dixi in honorem amici dilectissimi, Joannis Crawford , arraigeri, insula* Singapore 
gubernatoris, propter opus suum de archipelago Malayano * bene meriti, historian 
uaturalis totius, pnepriniis vero botanices fautoris strenui, ejusque studio addictissimi. 
CRAWFURDIA FASCICULATA, Wall TAB 47. 
Foliis lanceolatis ; floribus subsessilibus, fasciculatis; denlilnis calycinis eionga¬ 
tis ; corollis tubulosis, limbo laeinulis accessoriis aucto. 
Legt in monte Sheopore, llorentern Septembre et Octobre. Edam liabui e mon- 
tibus Pundua. Horentem et fructijieram Decembre. 
Radix fibrosa. Caulis teres, scandens, gracilis, uti tota planta la* vis, eniittens ramos 
plurimos, longos, tenerriutoa. teretes, super frutices late volubiles, torliles, filo eroporc- 
tico vix crassiores. Fdia opposit.a, remotiuscula, nunc interstitia subtequantia, tri- ad 
qttinqiiepollicaria, patentissima, lanceolata, e basi rotundato-acutiuscula attenuata in 
acumen longuni; integerrima, margine menibranaceo minutim crispatula, trinervia, 
nervis graeillimis, subtus elevatis, ad apicem usque excurrentibus, utrinque glaberrinia, 
glaueescentia, minutim reticulata. Petioli semipollicares ad pollieares, snlcati. basi 
dilatata, concuviusciilAramum marginulo elevato amplectentes, prseter quem nullum sti- 
pularum vestigium. Flores (fig. 1.2.) niagni, pollieares, ad sesquipollicares, diluteccerulei 
tres (piatuorve fasciculati, axillares, tubulosi, inodori, brevissime pediccllati. petiolo di¬ 
midin vel dupld longiores, patentes. Pedunculus teres,crassiusculus, lincas duas vel tres 
longus, supra basin bracteolis duabus tribusve lanceolatis, acutis, viridibus, ipsum lon- 
gitmlinetequantibus. Calyx (fig.3.) cyUndrico-oblonguR,quinqnecarinatus,fer^unguicu- 
laris, fauce snbtruneala coronatA dentibus quinque longis, compressis, erect is, distanti- 
!)us, ealyeem ipsum longitudinesequaiitibus. Corolla (fig. 4.) tinacum calyce marcescens 
hevis, sub lente punctulata; tubus fere polliearis, leviler plicatus, sursum vix ampliatus; 
limbus patens, plicatus, tubo triplo brevior, quinquefidua, acstivatioue imbricatiis: 
lacinia » ovate, acute; lobuli accessorii totidem interjecti, brevissimi, obtusi: faux 
mida, pervia. Stamina (fig. 4.) quinque corolla parum breviora, erecta, inclusa, parum 
imcqualiu; filamenta complauata, supra basin corolla* insert a, basi medioque dilatata, 
duo pattlld breviora; ant her w erecte, parallehe, libera?, oblonga*. Oi*/ir*«w(fig.5.) brevd 
pedicel I a turn; pedicclli basis eircumdata disco brevissimo, profundi* et obtusi quinque- 
* Histoiy of the Indian Archipelago, in three volumes, 8vo, IS20. 
