lanceolate, ascending and gently recurved. Petiole scarcely 

 half an inch long, deeply furrowed above ; a series of 

 minute and evanescent ciliae is observable across the young 

 branches, between the insertions of the petioles, leaving a 

 line after it has disappeared. Panicle terminal, oblong, 

 slender, subsessile,, pendulous, from six inches to a foot 

 long, with one or two pairs of remote floral leaves at 

 the base, consisting of opposite, subdecussate, divaricate, 

 short, once or twice dichotomous branches. Peduncles 

 acutely four-sided, purplish ; common, as thick as a crow- 

 quill ; partial, half an inch long, supported under each 

 division by a pair of very small, linear, ciliate bractlets. 

 Flowers white, inodorous, slightly adscending, ternate, in- 

 serted on filiform pedicels, which are an inch long, and have 

 a pair of minute, linear bractlets at the middle. Calyx 

 ovate, inflated, slightly five-cornered, of a purple colour, 

 nearly half an inch long, subtruncate at the base, narrowing 

 towards the mouth, which is divided into five equal, lanceo- 

 late, acute, obscurely ciliate, converging laciniae. Tube of 

 the corolla slender, cylindrical, a little longer than the calyx ; 

 limb spreading, unilateral, divided into five obovate, obtuse, 

 almost equal, flat lobes, nearly as long as the tube ; throat 

 very narrow. Stamina four, didynamous, adscending, longer 

 than the corolla ; filaments filiform, white, inserted within 

 the tube, immediately below the throat of the corolla ; 

 anthers small, ovate, equally bilocular, fleshy, and mi- 

 nutely papillose on the back. Pistil a little shorter than 

 the stamens, like these curved and adscending; ovarium 

 small, ovate, four-celled ; ovula solitary, erect ; style fili- 

 form ; stigma simple, small, club-shaped. Berry dark 

 purple, smooth, shining, round, most slightly two-lobed, 

 almost of the size of a small gooseberry, supported by the 

 permanent, scarcely enlarged, open calyx, two-, rarely 

 four-seeded. Wall. 



This is one of the most beautiful and desirable shrubs 

 with which I am acquainted. It is a native of Silhet, on 

 the North-east side of Bengal, whence it was introduced 

 into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, by the late Mr. M. R 

 Smith. It is well furnished with branches and leaves. The 

 panicles are long and slender, hanging down gracefully, 

 and vibrating to the least breath of air. The flowers are 

 very elegant, the corollas being of a pure white colour, the 

 calyces reddish purple. My late much-lamented friend 

 Mr. Jack, has given a short character of a shrub, native of 

 Penang, which he considered the same species as that just 



described. 



