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A native of the mountains called Pundua, in the neighbourhood of Sillet. Like 
and produces fruit during the advanced part of the rainy season. 
T'. rotundifolium, DeCand. loc. cit. p. 185. 
Plate CXXIX. Fig. 1. A branch of the panicle. — 2.3. Flowers. 
fruit. 7. Carpellum. 8. 9. The same, opened. 10. Seed. 
all the other species it blossoms 
4. The same, dissected. — 5. Pistil. 6. A raceme of young 
ACACIA MODESTA. Tab. 130. 
ARBOREA; ramis flexuosis, spinis axillaribus subulatis; foliis bipinnatis, 2—3-jugis, pinnulis oblongis, obtusis, 
glabris, glaucis, subcinerascentibus ; petiolo pilosulo, mediò uniglanduloso ; spicis axillaribus terminalibusque, subso- 
litariis, eylindricis, nutantibus, brevè pedunculatis ; floribus hermaphroditis, filamentis corollå duplò longioribus, 
distinctis ; legumine stipitato, lineari-oblongo, plano, glabro, submembranaceo, G-spermo, utrinque acuto. 
Habitat in Hindustania. Florentem observavi ad Saharunpur Aprili 1825. In Horto Calcuttensi floret mensibus 
Maii et Junii; legumina maturescunt Novembre. 
ARBUSCULA 8—12-pedalis, ramosissima. Rami divaricato-patentes, aculeati ; ramuli graciles, flexuosi, teretes, pallidi, calloso-punc- 
tulati, glaberrimi; tenelli uti petioli pedunculique pilis conspersi raris, patulis, brevibus. AcuLEr geminati, stipulares, et ad divisuras 
ramorum, breves, recti, subulati, fusci, nitidi. Forra approximata, patentia, nunc subfasciculata, bipinnata, 2—3-juga, brev? petiolata, 
3-pollicaria, levia. Pinna exact? opposite, oblongæ, subsessiles, 2—3-jugæ, 2-pollicares. PrnnuLæ oblongæ, obtusæ vel subretusæ, ferè 
sessiles, basi rotundatæ, vix inæquales, oppositæ, subdistantes, unguiculares, obsoletè venulosæ, utrinque valdè pallidæ et glaucæ, 
exteriores parüm majores, subobovatæ. Perron graciles, ferd filiformes, glauci, suprà sulcati; communis medid inter basin et primum 
pinnarum par munitus glandulà parvulà, concavà, depresså. . SripuLa capillaceæ, breves, valdè caducæ. Sricæ axillares terminalesque, 
solitarie vel geminatæ, laxè nutantes, oblongo-cylindricze, obtusæ, 3-pollicares, digitum minimum vix crasse, initio albe, deinde flavi- 
cantes, suffultæ pedunculo tereti, gracili, pollicari vel sesquipollicari. Frores parvi, glabri, fragrantes, sessiles, undique circum rachin 
lineatam, filiformem sparsi, approximati, patentissimi, hermaphroditi. Carvx ovatus, obtusè 5-dentatus, basi subgibbosus. —ConoLrA 
calyce duplò major, infundibuliformis, 5-fida ; laciniæ erectæ, ovatæ, acute. Stamina valdè numerosa, corollå duplò longiora, divergenti- 
patentia ; filamenta omnind distincta, capillacea, alba; antheræ minute, didymæ, subglobosæ. Ovarrum lineare, leve, substipitatum ; 
stylus filiformis, longitudine staminum, glaber; stigma minutum, simplex. LEGUMEN lineari-oblongum, compressum, submembranaceum, 
utrinque acutum, glabrum, margine utroque recto vel leviter repando, parùm incrassato, 6-spermum, stipite suffultum tereti, semiunciali. 
SEMINA orbicularia, plana, ope funiculi longiusculi, serpentini inserta, lævia, fusca, ocellata. 
This is an elegant shrub or small tree, remarkable on account of the pallid, cinereous colour of its foliage, and its 
drooping spikes of fragrant flowers. It is very ornamental while in blossom. 
Plate CXXX. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and corolla. 3. The same, opened. 4. Calyx and pistil. 
ALNUS NAPALENSIS. Tab. 131. 
Alnus nepalensis, Don Prodr. Floræ Nepal. p. 58. ips i 
Crescit in montibus vallem Napaliæ magnam ambientibus ; florens et fructifera fine et initio anni. 
AnBon 30—40-pedalis. Rami fusci, calloso-punctulati ; juniores pube pallidè ferrugineå conspersi. Foui alterna, patentia, ovalia, 
acuta, nunc levitèr acuminata, integerrima vel minutìm crenulata, 4—7-pollicaria, coriacea, suprà keris, lucida, subtås glancescentia, 
punctis minutis, resinosis, impressis notata, multinervosa, nervis suboppositis, approximatis, parallelis, obliquis, ad axillas villosulis, usque 
ad ambitum excurrentibus, ibique arcuato-anastomosantibus coståque elevatis, pubescentibus, venis transversis, numerosis. poe 
cylindricus, suprà sulcatus, }-pollicaris—pollicaris, glaber. STIPULE lanceolate, acute, caduca. um mascula pompe mer 
culata, longissima, cylindrica, gracillima, ferè filiformia, 6—8-pollicaria, flaccida, suffulta p brevibus, paberu I ici a 
ramosis. SQuAMÆ valdè approximate. ANTHERE magna. AMENTA feminea in eadem arbore infra mascula, terminalia ramulorum, sub- 
sessilia, racemosa, oblongo-cylindrica, obtusa, glabra, ferè uncialia; squamæ obcordate, cuspidulatæ. Semina pallidè fusca, sursùm 
membranaceo-marginulata. 
Plate CXXXI. Fig. 1. Part of a male amentum. 2. 3. Scales, with stamens. 4. Female amentum. 5. 6. Scales. 
