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corolla are acute and cover the gynostcgium, not obtuse and shorter 

 us described by Decaisne. The leaves are more lanceolate and 

 more sharply pointed than in the specimens of G. sylvestris that 



I have seen. 



I have given the name from the peculiar (^[uaKty of the leaves. 

 A leaf chewed in the mouth deprived it of all power of tasting 

 anything sweet for many hours afterwards. 



Trichodesm A HiRSUTA. Erccta, ramosa, hirsuta, ramis 4 -angularibns 

 ' sulcatis, foUis cauhuis oppositis sessilibus ovato-lauccolatis scabro- 

 hirsutis floralibns oblongis alterms subamplexicauhhus, pcdicelhs 

 uutantibus calycibiisque hirsutis, sepalis basi longe saglttatis acumuia- 

 tissimis iii fructu apcrtis (nee clausis ut in indica), corolla? caeruleaj 

 segraentis rotundatis apice subito iu caudulam protluctis, nucuhs 

 laevibus. 



This differs from T, indica in habit and pubescence, and in the 

 shape of the leaves ; the horns of the calyx are much longer than 

 in T. spinulosa. 





Rhabdia viminea. Suffrutex glaberrimus, ramis virgatis teretibus, j 



foliis subalternis v, irregulariter dispositis crebris crassiusculis obo- 

 vatis spathulatisve subsessilibus mucronatis glaberrimis marglue tan- 

 tura pilis paucis adpresse strigosis, floribus vel solitariis vel in cyniis 

 subdichotomis in apice ramulorum dispositis, calyce 5-partito seg- 

 mentis anguste ovatis acutninatis quincuncialibus strigose ciliatis, 

 corolla campanulata 5-fida sestivatioae 5-unciali glabra, staminibus 

 5 basi corollae ortis, inclusis, filamentis latiusculis subito attenuatis, 

 antheris terminalibus basi fixis sagittatis rima laterali dehiscentibus, 

 poUine elhptico, ovario biloculariglabroovuhs 4 pendulis, stylo bifido, 

 stigmatibus capitatis; bacca 4-sperma succo aqueo fulvo, dissepi- 

 meuto evanido, seminibus 2-3 saepe abortivis, testa dura, embryo 

 leviter curvato in medio albuminis tenuis site, eotyledonibus planis 

 crassiusculis ohovatis. 



This shrub is very peculiar in its habit, growing upon granite 



rocks in the bed of the river often submerged for weeks, its long 



. branches hanging do^m into the water when the rocks are left 



exposed. These branches are bo flexible and tough, that they 



may be tied in a knot without breaking. 



I have entered fully into the description, as there is some doubt 

 in my mind whether this should not be referred to Ehretia, or 

 whether, with another very similar species which differs in having 

 silky pubescence, found by Major Madden in the same sort of 

 position on rocks in the K^ali Granga in Kemaon, which I propose 

 calling R, sericea, it should not be considered to belong to the 

 South American genus Ehabdia, 



