: ‘Tas. 8525. 
CORIARIA TERMINALIS. 
China, Tibet and Sikkim. 
CORIARIACEAE. 
Corraria, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 429. 
Coriaria terminalis, Hvmsl. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2220; racemis elongatis termi- 
_ nalibus distincta. 
Suffrutex perennis, 0:3-1 m. alta, pauciramosa. Ramuli arcuato-a’ cendentes, 
dorsiventraliter foliati, quadrangulares avgulis angustissime alatis glan- 
duloso-ciliolatis, plus minusve sanguinei. Folia opposita (torsione 
ramulorum disticha), late ovata, breviter acute cuspidata, basi subcordata ; 
folia ramulorum pallide viridia marginibus nervisque sanguineis, 3°5- 
4°5 em. longa, 2-3 cm. lata, bisi 5-nervia, margine glanduloso-ciliolata, 
supra nervis venulisque impressis, subtus nervis prominentibus venulis 
rominulis; folia ramorum late elliptica, circiter 7 cm. longa, 5 cm. lata, 
-9-nervia ; petioli 1-3 mm. longi. Racemi terminales, multiflori, 14-15 em. 
longi, sub fructu ad 24 cm. longi; bracteae ascendentes, ovatae, acutae, 
5-6 mm. longae, superne sanguineae; rhachis plus minusve sanguinea, 
breviter densiuscule glanduloso-pubescens; pedicelli pariter induti, 4-6 mm. 
longi, sub fructu 1-1°3 cm. longi, patentes. Sepala imbricata, late ovata, 
acuta vel apiculata, basi rotundata, 2°5-3 mm. longa, circiter 2°5 mm. 
lata, viridula, margine hyalina. /etala 0°8 mm. longa, carnosula, accre- 
scentia, sectione transversa subtriangularia, extra convexa. Stamina 10, 
diplostemona; filamenta antheris breviora; antherae oblongae, 2°5 mm. 
longae, minute papillosae, rubrae, connectivo ultra loculos producto obtuso, 
loculis basi cuspidatis. Carpella 5, libera, alternipetala; ovarinm angulo 
interiore ad torum productum affixum, lateraliter compressum, ultra 1 mm. 
longum; ovulum ab apice suturae ventralis pendulum; stylus cum 
stigmate alopecuriformis, 2°5 mm. longus. Fructus ex achaeni s quinque 
compositus, petalis accretis aurantiacis carnosis oss a ego sa 6-7 mm. 
longis 4°5-5 mm, latis 2°5-3 mm. crassis circumdatus ; achaenia later- 
aliter compressa, oblonga (e latere visa), 2°75 mm. longa, 1-75 mm. a dorso 
ad ventrem, 1-2 mm. crassa, apice rotundata, basi subtruncata, dorsaliter 
valde carinata, utrinque costata costis 0°5 mm. a carina distantibus, stylis 
plus minusve persistentibus. Pericarpium crustaceum. Testa membra- 
nacea, brunneola.—T. A. SPRAGUE. 
The genus Coriaria to which the subject of our illustra- 
tion belongs is so singular as to justify its being regarded 
as the type of a distinct natural family occupying a very 
isolated “position. By Bentham and, Hooker this family 
has been placed at the end of the Discifloral families with a 
note that it seems related to some of the Thalamifloral ones 
and has points in common with the Phytolaccaceae among 
the Incompletae. By Engler it has been included in the 
November, 1913. 
