Tan. 4553. 
OXYSPORA VaGANs. 
Weak-stemmed Oxyspora. 
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus oblongus ; lobi 4, ovati, mucronulati. Petala 4, lan- 
 eeolata, oblique acuta. Stamina 8, (in-)zequalia, filamentis planiusculis. Anthera 
elongatée, basi in calcaria dio obtusa producta, connectivo vix perspieuo. Capsula 
4-lneutaris, 3 4-valvis. Semina minima, scobiformia, vix curva, utrinque aristata, hilo 
concavo terminali.—Suffrutices Nepalenses. Folia petiolata, elliptico-oblonga, acu- 
minata, denticulata, 5—T-nervia, superne glabra. ‘Thyrsus paniculatus, terminalis. 
Flores albi, subcernui.. De Cand. 
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OxysPora nutans ; subscandens, ramis nutantibus, foliis subcordato-ovatis acu- 
minatis crenulatis ciliatis, subtus ‘ramrflis petiolisque leviter tomentoso- _ 
pilosis pilis simplicibus demum fere (vel omnino) glabris, panicula elongata 
-nutante, connectivo antherarum omnium deorsum calearato, calyce capsuli 
fero costato. Wall. . hate 4 
Oxysrora vagans, Wall. Plant. Asiat. Rar. 0.1. p.78. t.88. Wall. Cat. n.4075 
Mrtastoma rugosa. Roxb. MSS. Hj. Icon. pict. in Hort. Bot. Cale. asservata. 
Though not so strikingly beautiful as the O. ora paniculata, ; 
figured by Dr. Wallich in his superb ‘ Planta Asiaticee Rariores,’ 
yet this is very nearly akin to it; and but for the well-known ac 
curacy of my valued friend just mentioned, and the fact of his havi 
seen both species in a living state, I should have been dispc 
to have considered the present a lax-branched and lax-flower 
variety of O. paniculata :—the more so, as he quotes from 
-Roxburgh’s MSS. a still more lax and drooping variety 
O. paniculata is indeed a stouter and stronger plant, wit. 
stem and panicle erect, and “connectivo antherarum 
obsolete calcarato ;” whilst in our plant, which quite 
with the Wallichian specimen in my herbarium, the connectivum 
_ of the longer anther is less distinctly spurred than the sho 
ones. TI possess, too, several specimens from Assam, fro 
| Griffith and others, of some among which itis, at least in the 
difficult to say to which they should bel | 
figured is, however, assuredly the vagans of | 
and Wallich, and has been raised from seeds sent by | 
fro hill country bordering on the plains in the approach 
Da - If less bon it i — sais than the 
