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LEYCESTERIA FORMOSA. HANDSOME 
LEYCESTERIA. 
KEKE EE EEEEEEEEERE 
Class and Order. 
PentanpriaA Monoeynia. 
_( Nat. Ord.—Caprironiacez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx superus, linbo 5-partito inequali. Corolla infun- 
dibuliformis, tubo supra basin gibboso, limbo 5-fido suba- 
quali. | Filamenta -exserta. Stigma capitatum. Bacca 
calycis limbo coronata, 5-locularis, polysperme. Semina 
levia, nitida. ’ 
Specific Name and Synonyms. 
Leycesteria * formosa. 
Leycesterra formosa. Wallich, in Roxb. Flora Indica, 
Carey’s edition, ». 2. p. 182. DC. Prodr. v. 4. p. 
338. Wallich, Plante Asiatice Rariores, tab. 120. 
This plant was sent to the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 
from the London Horticultural Society in 1837, and flowered 
pretty freely in July, 1838, in moderate heat. 
This plant is a native of the Himalaya Mountains, and is 
handsome, but its flowers are not very conspicuous, and the 
bracteas are not deeply coloured when grown under glass. 
It is probable, that the incised state of the leaves also arises 
from cultivation, for this peculiarity is not mentioned in 
the 
* Named by Dr. WaLLicu in compliment to his highly esteemed friend 
Wituam Leycrster, Esq., Chief Judge of the principal Native Court, 
under the Bengal Presidency, who, during a long series of years, and in 
various distant parts of Hindostan, has pursued every branch of horticulture 
with a munificence, zeal, and success, which abundantly entitle him to that 
distinction. 
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