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distinct in whole or in part. Cryptostegia is, however, conceived by Mr. Brown to be the link by which the two orders connect through his genus Cryptolepis, also a native of India and a climber.

The name was suggested to Mr. Brown by the circum- stance of the enclosure of the five-scaled crown within the tube of the corolla, and its not being exposed to view, as in other bordering genera.

Bot.Beg. 435 (1820).

Burchellia. Capitulum involncratum. Cor. clavato- infundibuliformis : limbo 5-fido abbreviato fauceque im- berbi ; aestivatione mutuo imbricata contorta. Stamina supra medium tubi inserta; antheris subsessilibus inclusis. Stigma clavatum. Bacca calyce alte 5-fido corona ta, bilo- cularis, polysperma. Brown MSS.

Frutex ramosissimus pubescens, ramulis compressis. Folia opposita. Stipulse interpetiolares, e dilatatd basi subulatce, indivistf, caducce. Capitulum terminate, extra involucrum monopltyllum pluridentatum abbreviation, pari unico foliorum minor um stipulis proportionate latioribus subtensum. Ovaria supra receptaculum conveccum vitlosum bracteolisque non- nullis minutissimis conspersum sessilia 9 distincta. Calyx : Umbo foliaceo cequali, tubum aliquoties super ante. Corolla coccinea, extiis pilis apprcssis, inius glabra prater barb am annular em juxta basim tubi. Antherae linear es. Discus epigynus carnosus, indivisus, imberbis. Stigma exsertum, utrinque sulco exaratum. Bacca turbinato-globosa, bilocularis septo completo. Placenta adnata. Semina angulata. Em- bryo ascitis, dimidio albuminis cartilaginei longior. Brown MSS.

Burchellia capensis. Brown MSS.

By its original observer the species had been ranked under the head of Lonicera, but was afterwards referred to its true station in Bubiacece; though that learned botanist, in adopting an erroneous description, representing the seeds of the berry as solitary, has placed the plant in a wrong section of the order. Mr. Brown having proved it not to be consistently reducible to any established genus, has

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