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measuring. three or four inches in length. “The acorns are axillary and. terminal, mostly solitary, though some 
times geminate, oval, shining, brown, smooth, about an inch long, terminated by a short columnar it and å "id 
by an hemispherical cup, about half its size, having a sharp and entire circular orifice, with the outer e Fano 
tomentose, and covered with numerous, small, lanceolate, acute, imbricate scales. All the young parts, as well as de 
male inflorescence, the under surface of the leaves, and the cup, are covered with a copious, stellate, Midi attached 
tomentum. The leaves in young trees are more or less spinous-dentate. The tree inhabits the summit of lofty moun- 
tains, constituting, together with the common Nipal RAododendrum, the chief forests, and attaining a gigantic size. It 
measures frequently in height from eighty to a hundred feet, with a girth of the stem, at six feet above the ground, of 
fourteen to eighteen feet; I have met with individuals of far greater dimensions on the summit of Sheopur. The 
wood is much esteemed by the natives, who employ it for various purposes of building, and for making bedsteads. 
Plate CLXXIV. Fig. 1. 2. Acorns. 3. Part of the underside of a leaf, showing the stellate tomentum. 
ARDISIA HYMENANDRA. Tab. 175. 
Ardisia hymenandra, Wall. in Roxb. Flor. Ind. vol. 2. p. 282. . 
Habitat in montosis Sillet contiguis, ubi detexit et in Hortum Calcuttensem introduxit De Silva. Floret Martio. 
Having given a detailed account of this handsome shrub in Roxburgh's work, it is unnecessary to repeat it here. 
The young leaves are elegantly veined with white stripes, and they are at all periods marked with numerous minute 
dots, intermixed with a few large semitransparent spots. 
Plate CLXXV. Fig. 1. Flower-bud. 2. 3. Flower. 4. Calyx. 5. Anthers. 
TETRADENIA LANUGINOSA. Tab. 176. 
Foris oblongo-cuneatis, acuminatis, triplinerviis, subtüs glaucis, floribusque lanuginosis. ces ab Esenbeck, infra. 
Habitat in sylvis vallis Napaliæ, florens et fructifera Februario et Martio. 
Annon admodòm procera. Ramuti obtecti cortice cinerascente, scabro, apice ferrugineo-villosi. Gemma elongatæ, cylindricæ, sericeo- 
villosæ, fuscæ, squamis adpressis, ovatis, obtusis, ciliatis. Forra sparsa, nunc subverticillata, approximata, patentia, cuneato-oblonga, 
acuminata, integerrima, deorsúm attenuata, basi acuta, submembranacea, 7 —9-pollicaria, suprà lucida, laevia, subtòs glauca, pilisque valdé 
copiosis, mollissimis, ferrugineis vestita, triplinervia, nervis gracilibus elevatis, quibusdam ex intermedio alternis, obsoleté venulosa; novella 
densè lanuginosa, sericea. PeTtoLI teretes, villosi, suprà paråm sulcati, ferè pollicares. UmBELLA numerose, laterales, globosæ, pedunculo 
brevi, crasso suffultæ, composite ex umbellulis pluribus, 5-floris. BRACTEÆ lanceolatæ, concavæ, ferrugineo-villosæ, caducæ. FLORES 
dilut® flavicantes, odorati, villis longis obsiti. PERIANTHIUM 4-partitum ; laciniæ lanceolate, acute. FLoris masculi stamina 5—8, 
ovatee, quadriloculares ; loculorum par superius introrsùm, inferius lateraliter 
ineari-lanceolatæ. GLANDULE 2 capitate ad basin utrinque fila- 
Fros fæmineus masculo paullo minor. 
perianthio longiora, inæqualia, erecta. ÅNTHERÆ Carnose, 
positum, ita ut antherz a dorso vise biloculares videantur; valvule I 
mentorum duorum interiorum. PrstiLLUM ut in foemineo, sed ovarium absque ovuli rudimento. 
OvaniuM ovatum, villosum, 1-loculare, ovulo pendulo, cylindrico. Srvrvs teres, lateraliter paråm deflexus; stigma magnum, peltatum, 
vertice planum. FILAMENTA nuda plura. 
This is one of the finest trees in Nipal. Its leaves are large and of an elegant form, covered on the under surface 
with long extremely fine and soft ferruginous hairs. The wood is considered strong and durable by the inhabitants 
of Nipal, and as such employed for a variety of carpenters work. | i i 
It is with peculiar satisfaction that I feel myself enabled to enrich this work with the following most interesting and 
learned account of the family to which this tree belongs. It is from the pen of my highly esteemed friend Professor 
C. G. Nees von Esenbeck, of Breslau, President of the Imperial Academy Nature Curiosorum, to whom I take this 
opportunity of offering my warmest and best acknowledgments. 
Plate CLXXVI. Fig. 1. 2. Male flowers. 3. The same, opened. 4. Stamens, viewed from two sides. 5. Anthers, magnified. 
6. A fascicle of female flowers. 7. 8. Female flower, detached. 9. The same, opened. 10. Ovary. 11. Ovary, opened. 
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