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7. a- nlpalensls, FaZZ. inRoxh. Fl.Ind. ed. Carey, \\, 375 (Ceanothus) : 

 Cat. 42(53; leaves 3-6 by 1^-2 in. glabrous fascicles of flowers, disposed 

 in simple or compound racemes, petals 5. . ^ .: />. ri^^ -«> 



^- CEisTnAt and Eastern Himalaya; Nipal, WalUch; Sikkim, alt. '3-6000 ft, 

 J. D,H.; Khasia Mts., alt. 3-4000 ft., and Assam; Bikma? Griffith. " '■;->" . 

 -'A Buberect or rambling shrub, with long slender glabrous branches, or pubescent onlj, 

 on tlie younger parts. Leaves oblong or elliptic-oblong, shortly acnmiiiate, seirate, 

 membranous or subcoriaceous, dark-green and shining above. Flowers shortly P^*^^^\. 

 iate,'t!mall, green, pubescent. Petals oblong, concave. Fruit \m.^ broadly oboTOte,. 

 blackish-red. 



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8. B. procumbeiiB, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 43; leaves t-1 !"•» 





petals .0.. R. rupestris, lioi/le III, 169 {name only). 



Western Himalaya, from Simla to Kumaon, alt. 7-8000 ft., Edgewort\ &c.^ '-'" 

 A small shrub with prostrate branches, the younger ones pubescent. L^^'^lf} }^^^^^ 

 late, acute or subacuniinate, coriaceous, serrulate, very shortly petiolate. ^ Flbwirs}^-^i 



Jn the axils of the leaves, pedicellate. Ji'VwiY fleshy. -. , / \ v.i^ >; -4^h. 



6. KOVENZA, Thunb. 





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A small unarmed tree. Leaves alternate, subbifarious. Flowers in 

 pedunculated, dichotomous, many-flowered, axillary and terminal cyuies. 

 Cali/x 5-M; tube "broadly obconical. Fetak 5, inserted below^ the ois^ 

 clawed, cucuUate. /Si^awiews 5, a little longer than the petals. Jy^ 

 lining the calyx- tube, the margin free and hairy. Ovary conical, sunk m 

 disk, 3-celled ; style 3-cleft, branches straight, erect. Fruit with arching 

 thickened pedicels, the size of a pea, indehiscent, obscurely 3-lobea, 

 3-celled, 3-seeded, the outer covering coriaceous and separating from tiie 

 inner membranous endocarp. . ^ . ; ^^ \ ,>'j .^^^ ^* ; . . 



\:^M H. dulcis, Thunh. 'Fl. Jap. 101 : lamU^. III. t. 131 ;' Suh.nJ^f, 

 t. 73 &74; Bqt. Mag. t. 2360; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 630; Wcdl. Cd. ^i>^y 

 DG.Prodr.xi. 40; ^mncZw Fm-. Flor. 94; i>o?4 Pr^xfn 189.- H. acerb*, 

 Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 501; DC. Prodr. ii 40. H. iiisequalis,^:^^- 

 Prodr. ii. 40. 





Subtropical Himalaya; alt. 3-6500 ft., from Chamba and Hazara to BbotaBj Doi 



often cultivated. — Distrib. China and Japan. . •''■' " i-V 



.: A tree 30 ft.; trunk straight; head broad, rounded. Leaves 4-6 by 2-3 in., ovaij 

 acuminate, deeply and sharply serrate or nearly entire, membranous, glabrous or in . 

 tarely pubescent, 3-nerYed at the base, the midrib pinnately branched.— i^xtenwj 

 cultivated in China and Japan for its sweet fleshy peduncles, which taste liKe a _ 

 gamotpear. -; ; .^-r^^^- 



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Glabrous shrubs. Leaves opposite or subopposite, V^^^},^^.'^. 



riaceous. Flowers in axillary fascicles or subutnbellate. .. Calyx o-n ; 

 tube hemispherical or turbinate. Ptials 6, clawed, emarginate, 

 or hooded. Disk filling the calvx-tube. . Stammi 5, equalling i" 

 petals. Ovary sunk in the disk, 2-4-celled, narrowed into a ^^f).\^ 

 cleft style. Frmi broadly obovoid or subglobose, dry or ^f^f^X!^ 

 surrounded at the base by the persistent calyx-tube, ^-i-cellea, , 

 seeded.— DisTKiB. Species 8: natives of Asia, Africa, and xruF 

 America. . .-!..=.;- >:\ ^^r-■^'■■^,.^lK.■^■>>^l^%^''^■^■rl''^'}^^,^ 



^s^S. Indlca, Brongn. m A^ SclFat. x. 363;W.^S A. M'- ^^J 



,:5lM« III. It. 73; Dalz.-^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 60; Thwaxtes f ««^ ^^^ 



: Bedd. Fl Sylv:'Arml.Gm:\xx. S. Commersohi, J^roTigrn tw ^^^ 



Nat Ser. \, x. 363; S- lucida, G. Don Gm. Syst. ii 33. & KHeeoi^vu-, 





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