nine to eighteen, small, greenish yellow, on very short — 
partial footstalks. Calyx 5-cleft: divisions ‘half-ovate, 
acute, broadish, green. Petals obovate, concave, yellow, 
furnished with a claw somewhat shorter than the divisions 
of the calyx, with which they alternate stamens opposite — 
the petals, inserted into the broad, green, fleshy disk: 
filaments short, awl-shaped, greenish: anthers round, 
yellow. Styles three, very short, upright, united at the 
base. Stigmas small, obtuse. Fruit dry, spherical, placed 
on the persistent calyx, surrounded at the top by a broad 
leafy wing, with an entire straight margin. Nui 3-celled, 
3-seeded, imbedded in, and completely concealed by the — 
enlarged disk. : 
_Paxiurus virgatus is a native of Upper Nepal, from — 
whence it was introduced to our gardens a few years ago, 
by seeds received from Dr. Watiicu. We do not, how- 
ever, find it recorded among the Nepalese species of Zizy- _ 
puus described in the second volume of the Flora Indica. — 
The plant, from which our drawing was taken, is growing in — 
the Botanic garden, Chelsea. It is now six feet high, and _ 
produced flowers for the first time in this country, in August 
and September last. It is perfectly hardy. Its drooping — 
branches, and shining green leaves render it a pleasing 
object in the shrubbery. The Patiurus vulgaris, very in- 
aptly named australis by Gertner, is essentially distin- — 
guished from our plant, by its decumbent stem, pubescent 
branches, the leaves never cordate at the base, its more © 
numerous flowers, and lastly by the wing of the fruit hav- 
img an uneven crenated margin. The proper place for 
Paliurus in the Linnean System is evidently Pentandria 
Trigynia, and not Pentandria Monogynia. | 
For the above article we are entirely indebted to Mr. _ 
Davip Don, who has now in the press an account of the 
plants of Nepal. : e 
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The margin of the wing is at first perfectly even, but when removed — 
from the parent plant soon becomes corrugate. ut 
