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HOLMSKIOLDIA sanguinea. 
Crimson Holmskioldia. 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMLA. 
Nat, ord. VERBENACER. Jussieu in ann. du mus. 7. 63. Brown prod 
1.510; et supra@ fol. 629. Ran 
HOLMSKIOLDIA. al. campanulatus, ampliatus, coloratus, indi- 
visus. Cor. ringens: labio superiore bilobo; inferioris trifidi lacinid mediA 
majore. Bacca 4-partibilis, segmentis monospermis. Brown in Hort. Kew. 
ed, 2. 4,65. Germen 1, non 4. 
Holmskioldia sanguinea. Retz. obs. 6.31. Willd. sp. 1. 3. I 
Kew. ed. 2. 4.65. Hoffm. phytogr. blett. 35. t. 3. OSE LEN daa 
Hastingia coccinea. Smith exot. bot. 2. 41. t. 80. 
Hastingia augusta. Konig MSS. in Herb. Banks. 
‘Platunium rubrum. Jussieu in ann. du mus. '7. 76. 
‘Frutex de bast brachiato-ramosus, ramis imis procumbentibus radicanti- 
bus, novellis obsolete 4-gonis lanuginosis. Fol. opposita ovata v, cordata 
serrata, acuminata, albo-puncticulata, subvillosa, 3-4-uncialia, petiolo qua- 
ter fere breviore. Racemi brachiato-paniculati, laxi terminales, axi pedi- 
cellisque subvillosis; floribus concoloribus sanguineo-rubentibus. Cal. rotatus, 
obsolete 5-fidus, subbilabiato-repandus, utrinque subvillosus, venosus, persistens 
corolld plurimum brevior, fundo centrali brevissimo tubuloso c e 
; onicd. Cor. angusta 
reaurvato-prostans, tubato-elongata, utrinque subpubescens, compressa, uncialis 
v. ultra; tubus calyce longior; limbus brevis, labiato-partitus, lobulis rotun- 
datis, superioribus 4 brevissimis, subequalibus, inferiore declinato bis longiore. 
Fil. brevius didynama, laxe pubescentia villis glandulosis coccineis reflexis 
Anth®. emicantes, oblonge, ovato-sagittate, Susce. Stylus Sfiliformis 
filamentis equalis sed gracilior, glaberrimus, supra coccineus: stigma acy- 
men breve continuum albicans transverse fissum lobulo altero bis feré longiore 
Germ. parvulum, granuloso-scabrum, argenteo-candicans, sub4gono-globo- 
sum angulis rotundatis, 4-loc., loculis monospermis, 
LS et 
The plant of the drawing flowered last December at the 
garden of Comtesse de Vandes, Bayswater; we believe, for 
the first time in this country. It had been cultivated in 
the hothouse ; but Owing either to the dark cold season of 
the year, or accidental weakness of the plant, the blossom 
proved inferior in size and brilliancy of colour to the Indian. 
samples we have seen ; though perfect in other respects. 
The germen is a small round obsoletely quadrangular 
granularly roughened silvery-white body, without the slight- 
est appearance of a quadruple division at the exterior; and 
