492 PLANTS COLLECTED IN SIKKIM. 
SkIMMIA WALLICHIT, Mook. f. & Thoms. MS. in Herb. Kew. — Frutex humilis 
vix 30 em. altus, ad nodos inferos вере radicans; ramuli crassi, glabri, 
carnosi, Folia persistentia, carnosa, siccitate, chartacea, glabra, lanceolata 
vel oblanceolata, acuta vel acuminata, 6-15 em. longa, 2:5-4 em. lata, 
nervis primariis obsoletis vel si aliquando siccitate visis utrinque 6-8, 
marginem versus arcuatim junctis; petioli crassi, 5-7 mm. longi. Flores 
albidi, virescentes, dioici, in paniculis subterminalibus 2-4 em, longis albc- 
puberulis breve pedunculatis; bracteæ bracteolæque ovate, acute, 2-3 mm. 
longs, puberule. Calycis lobi 5, ovati, obtusi, puberuli, 2 mm. longi. 
Petala 5, æqualia, oblanceolata, 5 mm. longa. Stamina petalis æquilonga, 
in floribus $ minora. Ovarium in g minutum, stylis 3 filiformibus, stig- 
matibus minutis; in 9 globosum, stylo crasso brevi, stigmate magno capitato 
lobato. Fructus coccineus, globosus, carnosus, circa 6 mm. diametro, 
pyrenis l-3, cartilagineis, pendulis. 
Nepal; Wallich in 1821; Sikkim, at 9000 to 11,000 ft., J. D. Hooker, ete. 
