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slightly scabrous, with four minute, imbricated bractew at _ 
the base. Corolla with the tube so short as to be almost 
rotate, deeply four-cleft, white, the segments, ovate, re- 
curved. Stamens two, opposite: Filaments rather thick, 
white. Anthers short, oblong: Cells remote, opening 
laterally. Pistil : Germen roundish, ovate, green: Style 
shorter than the germen, cylindrical, purplish: Stigma 
capitate. 
A native of the mountains of Nepal, where it is called 
Goom-gacha, and where it grows to be a considerable tree, 
producing profuse clusters of white, sweet-smelling flowers 
from April to June, which are succeeded by small, oval, 
berries, of a beautiful blue colour, and covered with a beau- 
tiful bloom,” as remarked by Dr. Watuicu, to whom our 
Glasgow Botanic Garden is indebted for the living plant. 
This flowered with us in August, 1828. 
The more common state of the plant in its native coun- 
try is to have the panicle and leaves below hairy... 
_Dr. Watticu seems to consider it possible, that the Lie. 
sinense of Lourriro may be the same, and observes, that 
= : poem, Tuoune. and lucidum of Arron, are allied 
it. : 
Fig. 1. Front view of a Sieaae: 2, Back view of ditto. 3. Calyx and 
Pistil. 4. Anther. 5, Section of the Germen.—Magnified. _ 
