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THUNBERGIA cocciyea. 
Scarlet-flowered Thunbergia. 
Got iia te 
“Capel rostra ae ee 
Thunbergia coccinea ; foliis condats Swenelid fideattinds integerrimis ; : 
floribus racemosis, ore pebliquo; limbo reflexo, pedicellis ageregatis, 
caule volubili. i 
Thunbergia coccinea, Wansacn, MSS. ta oe in Jameson's Edin. Phil. 
Journ. No. XXvVil. Pe 150% | 
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from the ee, with The itches ee opposite, dlightly swollen at 
the joint , climbing to a great height, and twining from left to right, 
green, rounded. Leaves opposite, petioled, delicate light green, paler 
_ beneath, oblongo-cordate, or even hastate at the base, shortly acuminate 
at the extremity, 5-nerved, and veined: petiole scarcely half so long as 
the leaf, channelled above. dlowering branches 1-2 feet long, pendent, 
their leaves gradually diminishing in size towards the einai nearly 
) ovato-acuminate and entire. : 
 Racemes long, terminal, interrupted, secund. Pedicels two-thirds of the 
length of the flowers, two, three, or more, arising in clusters from each 
floral leaf or bractea, stout, and swelling slightly upwards. Ouder calyx 
as long as the tube of the corolla, of two large, ovate, purplish-brown, 
striated leaflets, united on one side, so as to form a sharply keeled cym- 
biform sheath or spatha, deciduous. Inner calyx very small, cup-shaped | 
green, scarcely toothed at the margin. Corolla tubular (scarcely campa- 
nulate), the tube pale red, secreting a large quantity of honey, dilated, com- 
pressed and oblique at the mouth, within yellow ; the limb bright red, 5- 
cleft, the segments obtuse, closely reflexed over the tube and outer calyx. 
Stamens included: filaments inserted near the base, stout, red, com- 
pressed, tapering upwards. Anthers large, sagittate, yellow, the base 
on each side (which is hairy) running down into a reddish-purple spur: 
between the four stamens is a subulate process, probably a fifth abortive 
stamen. Germen ovate, surrounded by a large fleshy disk or ring. Style 
longer than the stamens, filiform. Stzgma capitate, notched. 
VOL. III. 
