230 CXXXI. SANTALACER. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Thesium. 
Nut d in., with faint but distinct raised nerves and reticulations, —There appearing 
be several varieties of this plant, approaching T. divaricatum, T." montanw nee 
various other Oriental and Siberian species, which should probably all be united, 
their characters are very vague. . lobose.— 
© Var.? 1; perianth-lobes much shorter broadly ovate, nut more gto Tibet 
Garwhal, on the Niti Pass, alt. 11,5000 ft., Strachey Winterbottom. Ut» 
Heyde.—A more alpine plant than T. himalense proper, and possibly +. 
tauicum, Kar. & Kir. hes divaricate, 
Var. ? 2; stems slender straggling and much branched, the brane es at Vatar, 
leaves very much more slender, flowers minute.—North- West Himalaya, a , 
Brandis; Garwhal, Strachey & Winterbottom (Thesium 2). in the Tibetan 
Var. 3? pachyrhiza; stems very numerous procumbent from (int e i rait 
specimens) a stout woody rootstock as thick as the little finger, leaves slender, rved 
(in Sikkim specimens) ellipsoid or depressed globose crowned with Tinear 500 bs 
perianth-lobes, —Heights above Kibas, Thomson. Sikkim, at Tungu, alt. 11- , tock ; 
J. D. H.—]1 think this is nothing but a state of T. himalense,. witha very old roots ‘tion ` 
the form of the nut is so variable as to afford no distinctive character, and its nerva 
is that of the other forms included under himalense. 
2. T. Wightianum, Wall. Cat. 4037; stems numerous branching 
from the base procumbent leafy, leaves very many uniform linear-lanceo the 
acute tips often bleached, bract and bracteoles hardly longer than d 
globose reticulated 10-nerved nut which is crowned by the short AU 
perianth-lobes. 4. DC. Prodr. xiv. 647 ; Wight Ic. 1852 (exclude fig. g 
anthers). T. nilagiricum, Miguel in Analect. Mel. iii. 15, and in Hohenack. | 
Pl. Ind. Or. No. 973. 
Ab Niente Hints, Wight, &c. Conoor, alt. 7-7500 ft., Clarke.— DISTBIP. 
Ss1nia 
Branches straggling, sometimes a foot long. Leaves 1-4 by in., almost n 
minate, rather fleshy. Flowers axillary, solitary or 2-nate, minute, sessile. Stamen 
glabrous. Style short, stigma capitate. Nut |y in. diam., with prominent longitudinal 
nerves and impressed reticulations. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. . 
THESIUM sp. ? from Murgulla, in the Salt Range, Vicary.—Apparently a tall very 
slender erect species, with long branches, scattered leaves, and the inflorescence àn 
flowers of the common forms of P. himalense. It is perhaps T. multicaule, Ledeb. 
. 2, PYRULARIA, Michaux. 
Trees or shrnbs. Leaves alternate, deciduous, membranous. Flows 
polygamous, axillary or in terminal cymes, bracteolate. Perianth-tube ae d 
in the male, in the fem. adnate to the ovary; lobes 5, valvate, hairy on s 
face. Stamens 5, inserted at the bases of the perianth-lobes with the anthers 
adhering to the hairs. Disk of scales between the stamens. Ovary inferior ; 
style columnar, stigma capitate; ovules 2-3, pendulous from a free re 
straight basal column. Drupe large, pyriform, obovoid or globose. >° , 
globose; embryo short, subterete, near the top of the albumen.— Species ^ 
a Himalayan and N. American. ` b 
P. edulis, 4. DC. Prodr. xiv. 628; leaves ovate oblong or elliptic-oblong 
acuminate young with long hairs beneath, male fl. in hirsutely tomen Ew 
panicles, fem. solitary, fruit pyriform. Spherocarya edulis, Wall. N : 
4033, and in Rowb. T Ind. Ed. Carey & Wall. ii. 371, and Tent. Fi. p: 
19, t. 10, copied in Wight Ic. t. 255; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 320. 
vestita, Wall. C-t. 7207. . 
CENTRAL AND EasTERN TROPICAL HIMALAYA; Nepal Wallich. Sikkim, alte 
