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the description of native specimens, nor figured by Wat- 
ticH. (—That author speaks of it as ‘‘ a charming shrub, 
growing wild on the highest mountains surrounding the 
valley of Nepal, blossoming from April to October. Its 
fruit ripens at the end of the rains, and during the com- 
mencement of winter. I have also had it from much more 
northerly situations towards Gossain Than. According to 
my friend Dr. Govan, it is found in abundance at an eleva- 
tion seldom less than eight thousand feet above the plains, 
among the Pine and Oak forests of Bishuhur, as at Hutto, 
and at Desoo in the Thakooraee of Kioonthul, blossom- 
ing from June till August, and called by our natives 
Nulkuroo.’’) 
Descr. Shrub branching, dark brown and cracked ; 
branches opposite, ascending, glabrous, the twigs of a deli- 
cate, subglaucous green. Leaves (four inches and a half 
long, three and a half broad) petioled, broadly ovato-cor- 
date, inciso-lobate,-smaller and more entire upwards, acu- 
minate, veined, above of the same colour as the twigs and 
glabrous, below paler and slightly pubescent. Pettoles 
much shorter than the leaves, generally red, channelled 
above, and stem-clasping. Flowers in verticillate, bracteate, 
cernuous spikes, terminal, or in the axils of the upper 
leaves. Bracteas large, cordato-ovate, acuminate, red-pur- 
ple, veined, somewhat hairy. Calyx persisting, superior ; 
limb five-parted, segments very unequal, subulate, glandu- 
loso-pilose, its throat much contracted, and, with that por- 
tion which is dilated over the adhering germen, scattered 
with purple glandular hairs. Corolla (nine lines long, se- 
- ven across the expanded limb,) white, funnel-shaped, with 
a small globular dilatation at its base, where it is inserted 
into the base of the calyx-throat, glabrous, its limb five- 
partite ; lobes ovate, blunt, spreading ; nectariferous glands 
five at the base of the tube. Stamens five, as long as the 
corolla, inserted into this and adhering to it, as far as the 
throat where they alternate with yellow streaks, below they 
alternate with the nectaries, filaments glabrous, filiform ; 
anthers versatile, bilocular, bursting along the face ; pollen 
cream-coloured, its granules small, globular. Pistil longer 
than the flower. St¢gma capitate, obscurely and unequally 
lobed ; style filiform, glabrous, articulated at the base. 
Germen five-locular; ovules very numerous, pendulous from 
central receptacles. Graham. 
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Fig. 1. Flower and Bractea, 2, Calyx and Pistil :—magnified. 
