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SPERMADICTYON* azüreum. 
Azure-flowered Netseed. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGY NIA. 
Nat. ord. RuUBIACER. 
SPERMADICTYON. — Supra, vol. 4. fol. 348. 
S. azureum; hirsutum, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis, floribus pani- 
culatis. 
Spermadictyon azureum. Wallich in FI. Ind. 2. 225. (1824.) 
Hamiltonia scabra. Don prodr. Fl. Nep. 137. (1825.) 
Spermadictyon scabrum. Spreng. syst. 4. pars 2. p. 73. 
Speaking of Spermadictyon suaveolens, Dr. Wallich 
adverts thus to this species: — 
“I have found a marked variety of this shrub, if not a 
distinct species, in Nipal, where it grows between Hetounra 
and Bheempedi, chiefly between Bhinsadoban and. the last- 
mentioned village, forming the most extensive thickets, 
which are rendered still more beautiful by the snow-white 
flowers of Porana paniculata. I have also met with it 
about the village near Cheeshagurree, and on several 
mountains in the valley itself: my people have brought it 
to me from Noakote. It perfumes the air by its delicious 
fragrance from November until Marcb, during which time 
it is indescribably beautiful. It differs from suaveolens 
chiefly in the colour of its flowers, which are azure blue, 
and in the hairiness of most of its parts. It grows to a 
shrub of 10 to 12 feet high, well furnished with branches. 
As the stem gets old, its epidermis becomes smooth and 
ash-coloured. . Branches covered with pale, soft hairiness, 
widening at the divisions and insertions of the leaves ; while 
young reddish, very slender. Leaves from 5 to 8 inches 
* So named by Mr. Brown, from ezígua, à seed, and Juro, a net, with 
teference to the beautiful net-like arillers with which the seeds are said to 
be covered. 
