S7 ROYPSIA SUAVEOLENS.
fil.imenls)3-celled, many-seeded, i/ig-ma 3-clefc. Dni.peomseeded.
£miryo erect, wilhout albumen.'"
289. ROYDSIA SUAVEOLENS.
OBSERVATIONS,
Maudobe-lata the vernacular name in Sil/id. wliere the plnnt i.s
indigenons. Flowering time the month of March, when its
numerous blossoms diffuse a strong, but pleasant odour through
the forests wher e they grow. Seed ripen in August and September,
DESCRIPTION.
S/em stout, woody, and with its numerous branches climbing over
trees to a great extent. Bark of the young shoots green,
void of pubescence, but covercd with numerous, small,
elevated, whitish specks.
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oblong, entire, of a firm texture,
and smooth on both sides, sometimes pointed: length about
six inches, and about two and-a-half and three broad-
SlijjiUes none.
Inftcrescmce terminal and axillary ; when terminal it is generally
a long, slender ^anidt, as long as the leaves; when axillary
a simpl e raceme.
r i m c r J numerous, alternate, short-pedicel led, pretty large, pale
yellow, and fragrant.
Brades solitary, oblong, villous, one-flowered.
Cali/x inferior, one-leaved, 6-cleft, villous; ¡epnenti ovale in a
double series ; cxierLor three rather larger.
Cord none, nor any thing like a nectarial organ.
Filamails numerous (about one hundred), length of the pistillum
and its pedicel, inserted on the apex of a short column.
JitthcTS incumbent.
Germ pedicelled above the elevated receptacle of the stamina;
obloDg. 3-celled, with about two rows of ovnlei in each,
attached to the axis, ve r y short. SiigTM irifid.
Drupe pedicelled, size of a large olive, oval, covered with a railier
scabrous, orange-coloured, thin, brittle cortex, one-celled.
Pulj> in considerable quantity, soft and yellow, ^^ul oblong,
texture of a soft ligneous nature and tliin, one-celled.
S.valved.
Seed solitary, conform to the nut: Inlegimienl single, membra-
Albumen none.
Embryo erect. Cotyledons two, unequal ; [he larger deeply concave,
receiving the .smaller doubled one into its concavity as
in the Shorca; they are of a firm fleshy texture, and yellowish,
Radide inferior, and rather within ihe base of the cotyledons.
UNONA I,ONGIFLORA. »5
OBSERVATIONS.
Collahcurrah. the vernacular name in Sil/i£l. where it is indigenous
; grows to the size of a large slirub, or small busliy tree,
Fla\vers in April and May, and the seed ripen about the close of
DESCRIPTION.
Toung shoots quite smootli, round, and flexuose.
Leaves alternate, bifarious, short-petioled, linear-oblong, entire,
smooth on both sides, and particularly glaucous underneath :
from six to twelve indies long, by 2-4 broad.
Peduncles axillary, solitary, from three to ten inches long, filiform,
smooth, one-flowered.
Flowers uncommonly long, pendulous ; outside bright orange,
inside yellow-
Calyx S-leaved : leaflets reniform-cordate, acuminate, very small,
and hairy.
PWa/j two. rarely three, cnsiform, thick, and fleshy, 6-8 inches
long, both sides smooth ; inside yellow, outside orange.
Stamiiui numerous, glandular-headed, forming, a hemispheric ball
round the germs.
Germs 10-20. sessile, clavate. very hairy, one-celled, ovules a few,
imbricated upward, and vertically attached to the inner
margin of the cell. Styles short. Stigma large, recurved,
Bo-ries several, long-pedicelled, drooping, 2-4-juinted : joints
linear-oblong, or sub-cylindric, smooth.
Seeds one in each joint , and of the same form, smooth, Integmnenl
polished, of the consistence of parchment, 2-valved, from
its inside innumerable fibres project into the albumen,
Embryo in the base of the albumen, &:c. kc. exactly as in the
Uvaria ; see Gart. sem. 2. I i 5. 114.
290. UNONA LONGIFLORA.
Leaves Jinear-oblong. Flowers 2-3 petalled, of great length, and
pendulous yoinls of ihe Berries few and linear-oblong.
• Tills elcgnnl, clcarlj-nmrkod gonos is nnmed iri lioDOurofSir .loiiN ROYDS. one ot
Iho pnisnc .IiJges oflbo Supreme Court of Judicature of Bengal; a Botanist
291. INCARVILLEA PARASITICA.
Shrubby, parasitic, smooth. Leaves opposite, lanceolar, veinless,
fleshy. Umbds terminal,
OBSERVATIONS.
A native of the forests which cover the Garrozv hills, where it
is found growing on trees ; but shows a partiality for such places
as retain decayed vegetable matter. In the Botanic Garden at
Calcutta it grows freely in a soil composed of rotten wood, and
garden mould. Flowering time the rainy season, when nothing
can exceed the beauty of its numerous, iarge, pendulous, crimsonyellow
flowers, approaching in shape and size to those of Digitalis
jmrpnrea. Seed ripen in September and October.
D E S C R I P T I O N .
scarce any, but several, rathe! succulent, smooth branches,
wiih swelled joints ; from those the fibrous roots issue.
Leaves opposite, or nearly so. short, fleshy-petioled, lanceolar.
acuminate; margins more nr less curled; substance firm,
fleshy, and velnlcss ; length 4-G inches, by one broad.
Umbels terminal, solitary, sessile, simple, many-dowered.
Flowers large, drooping, colour a beautiful mixture of orange and
Brades: an oblong cadu. t i h e base of e; pedicel,
Calyx tubular, somewhat gibbous; mouth 5-i)arted,
Csrfl/tubular, curved, rai^-somewhatventricose ; outside villous;
mouth oblique and divided into five, nearly equal, semicircular
segmenis, one above, antl two on each side.
Filaments four, didynamous, extend beyond the mouth of the lube.
Aulhers linear, apices united.
Germ superior, linear, smooth ; base embraced by a nectarial ring,
4-celled; ovules numerous, attached to ihe incurved margins
of the partitions. Style length of the germ or more, protruded
beyond the anther. Stigma entire, fleshy, subinfundibulilorm.
Capude siliqiiiform, pendulous, long and very slender, being
about twelve inches long, and scarce so thick as a quill,
smooth and brown, a groove on the opposite sides, 4-celled,
2-vatved, Valves thin, almost membranaceous.
Seeds numerous, minute, imbricated, cylindric, rough ; from the
K hairs, and fro theya.
. the rolled in edges of ilie valves of the capsule.
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Embryo cylindric, inverse. Cotyledons oblong, not half ihe length
of (he whole embryo. Radicle cylindric, superior. When
vegetation begins the structure of the parts become evident:
the apex of the radicle first projects, from ^yhicl. innumerable
most minute rays i.ssue, and lay hold of the soil, or rathei
bark of the tree they are sown on, &c. as in the othei
parasites.
292. OROBANCHE .-VCAULIS.
Stemless ; fioxuers crowded into irregular heads immediately on
the roots: cord five parted, laciniate : anthers single, each of ihe
inner pair augmented with a large, recurved, oval gland : stigma
peltate.
OBSERVATIONS,
Found growing on the root of the China sugar cane, in the
Botanic Garden at Calcutta, and in full blossom in September.
DESCRIPTION.
Root, I suspect annual, of many, thick, firm fibres, adhering to the
roots of.the China sugar cane.
Sum none,
F/orui'-j numerous, short-peduncled, collected in large dense fascicles,
even with the surface of the earth, very large: coloui
a beautiful lively purple.
Pcdunclcs short, round, smooth, one-flowered.
Bractes triangular, fleshy, (hey embrace the ba,se of one or morí
peduncles, uniting them into a tuft, close to the root.
Calyx one-leaved, length of the tube of the corol, fleshy, simple
opening on one side, or dividing into two unequal portions
outside tinged with red; inside white.
Coral with tube obliquely davale, cauipanulate, smc
part. /»mV/i yellow, T/irofl/conlracted, and trigonal. Borde.
5-paried ; the divisions nearly equal, and about as long as ih(
lube : lac
Germ ovate. Style rather longer than the stamina, curved, smooth.
Stigjmi peliate, very large, somewhat 3-lobed, glandulous,
slightly villous.
Capsule ovale, one-celled, 2-valved, with two pair of ramous receptacles,
to which ihe numerous, very minute seeds adhere.
CONGEA.
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.
N A T U R A L ORDER, VITICES, Juss.
G E N E R I C CHARACTER,
/wfo/nfrc few- f lowered. Ca/?/* tubular. CoroZ irregular. Stamina
very long and distinct, Genn 4-celled, cells one-seeded,
insertion superior. .Síny one-seeded, ¿»«¿n/oerect, without
albumen.
293. CONGEA TOMENTOSA.
Involucre 3-leaved, 6-9-flowered. Stigma entire. Leaves op-
OBSERVATIONS.
An immense climbing shrub; or, 1 may say.
the forests of Chitlagong, where it blossoms in March.
Bark of the large trunk, and old ligneous branches scabrous and
ash-coloured : of young shoots tonientose.
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, cordite, entire, more or less villous
according to age; 4-(5 iiiche.'! long, by 3-4 broad, Floral
/«KM small, and very dovs'ny.
Panicles axillary and terminal ; composed of many, asceniling.
opposii iclie suppoi
ingle, peduncled umbellets of small white Howers.
Bractcs from oblong to cordate, very downy, solitary, ses.sile, one
at the base of each peduncle.
Involucre S-leaved, 6-9-flowered ; leaflets dlipiic, downy, pinkcoloured;
some few of ihem emarginate; length above one
inch, and above half an inch broad,
tubular, very hairy, 5-toothed.
Corol; tube length of the calyx: border bilabiate: exterior lip very
long, and bifid ; under or rather interior of three, oval, equal,
sessile, scgmenis.
Filaments didynamous, very long, greatly exceeding the exterior
lip of the corol, variously bent. Anthers 2-lobed,
Germ stibturbinate. See. &c. exactly as in the former species.
Pericarpium not seen.
•ery
Filnments smooth. Anthers: a large, oblong whi t e gland, is attached
to the base of ihc inner pair, appearing like a second
aniher.
294. AMBROSINIA CILIATA.
Leaves sword-shaped ; spathe shorter than the leaves, wi t h a tubular
base, and expanding ciliated apex,
OBSERVATIONS.
Found on the wet banks of rivulets, ponds, kc. near Cakulta.
Flowering time the hot season,