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Tas. 4641. 
BENTHAMIA 1 rraGirera. 
Strawberry -fruited Benthamia. 
Nat. Ord. Cornnra#.—TeEtrRaANDRIA MOoNoGyYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Flores capitati, involucrati. Calyx ovario adnatus, limbo supero 
cupulari persistente. Corolla supera, tetrapetala, calycis fauci affixa. Stamina 
4, calyci inserta, libera, Ovarium calyci innatum, biloculare, ovulo unico pendulo 
in quovis loculo. Stylus simplex, clavatus, stigmate truncato, basi intra calycem 
disco 4-lobo cinctus. Drupe carnose, monopyrene, omnes in quovis capitulo in 
unam quasi polypyrenam coadunatee. Pyrena ossea.—Arbores v. frutices Asia 
temperate. Zuccar. 
Bentuamia fragifera; foliis oblongis acuminatis subtus precipue pilis appressis 
nunc malpighiaceis arctissime appressis canescentibus, calycis limbo quadri- 
dentato. 
Bentuamta fragifera. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1579. Trans. of Hort. Soc. 2nd Ser. 
vo, 1. p. 457. 4.17. Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 2. p. 435. 
Cornus capitata. Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Wall. 0.1. p. 434. De Cand. 
Prodr. v. 1. p. 434. Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. v. 3. p. 10. ¢. 214. * 
A hardy shrub, no doubt, as Dr. Lindley designates this hand- 
some plant; but it is only in the milder regions: of the south- 
west of England and Ireland that we are privileged to see it 
flowering copiously and bearing its beautiful-looking fruit in the 
open air. The fruiting specimen here figured was sent from the 
Belfast Botanic Garden, in December, 1849, by our friend Mr. 
Ferguson. We have received equally fine ones from Mrs. Buck, 
of Moreton, North Devon; and we know that at Heligan, in 
Cornwall, and at Sir Charles Lemon’s, Carcleugh, the large and 
highly-coloured fruit is abundantly produced. Dr. Wallich, who 
discovered it on Chandaghiry, in Nepal, speaks of the tree as of 
the size of an apple-tree, and covered with yellow heads of scent- 
less blossoms in June. We possess copious specimens, gathered 
by Dr. T. Thomson at Kamaon and Mussoree, by Major Madden 
at Simla, and by the late Mr. Griffith in Bootan. A second 
species has been discovered by Dr. Siebold on mountains of 
APRIL 1st, 1852. 
