hardly fleshy capsule. There is little doubt, I think, that 
C. luteo-alba inhabits the whole Himalaya from Kumaon to 
Sikkim, at elevations of 8000 to 10,0CO feet, and it may 
prove to be identical with C. Japonica, Sieb. and Zuce., of 
Japan. 
Dusor. Stem very slender, twining, red in age. Leaves — 
petioled, one and a half to three and a half inches long, 
ovate, ovate-cordate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, margin 
entire or waved and obscurely crenate, bright green above, 
pale beneath, rather leathery, mottled with a pale purplish- 
red in age; nerves three to five from the top of the petiole ; 
petiole a quarter to one inch long. Flowers clustered in the 
leaf-axils and terminal, sessile, pendulous, one and a half 
inch long. - Calyx with a five-angled oblong tube, rounded 
at the base, green, angles thickly ribbed, the ribs prolonged 
into subulate-lanceolate erect lobes as long as the tube. 
Corolla between funnel- and bell-shaped, twice as long as 
the calyx-lobes, tube green, limb white (yellowish, Clarke) 
with green folds, lobes broad acute. Stamens inserted half- 
way down the tube, anthers very small, didymous. Ovary 
_ Stipitate, slender; style short; ovules numerous. Fruit 
one inch long, exclusive of the stalk, which is as long as 
the corolla, ellipsoid-cylindric, brilliant red, shining, fleshy, 
indehiscent, many-seeded; stalk enclosed in the withered 
persistent corolla. Seeds very numerous, orbicular, vertically 
flattened with a double crest or wing on one side.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, longitudinal section of flower; 2, stamens, back and front view; 3, base 
of stalk of ovary; 4, stigmas; 5, transverse section of berry ; 6, seeds :—all 
enlarced : 
