612 F)r. Wallich's Description 



succa incomplete 2-locularis, polysperma, dissepimento pla- 

 centifero sursum fisso. 

 Habitus. Herba gracilis, repens, pilosula. Folia duplicis in- 

 dolis; caulina et ramea orbiculato-reniformia, opposita, sub- 

 sessilia, dentata : alia acerosa, conferta in fasciculos pe- 

 tiolatos, gracillima. Flores solitarii, parvi, rosei, breve 

 pedicellati, ebracteati, axillares foliorum majorum alterni 

 vel oppositi, vel terminales ramulorum novellorum. Bacca 

 globosa3, ruberrimae, nitidae. 



Hemiphragma heterophyllum, Wall. 



Planta sat communis in montibus Nepaliee saxatilis florens et 

 fructifera toto fere anno, praecipue ab Octobre ad Februa- 

 rium. 



Caulis gracillimus, pedalis bipedalisque, prostratus, et per di- 

 stantiam pollicum 3 vel 4 radicans, radiculis simplicibus 

 pallidis fibrillosis, obsolete quadrangularis, epidermide fus- 

 cescente secedente. Rami pauci versus extremitatem cau- 

 lis, tenerrimi, indivisi, breves, oppositi, acutanguli, aspe- 

 ruli a pilis brevibus articulatis patentibus hyalinis. Folia 

 dilformia. Caulina ovato-cordata subrenifoimia plana, pa- 

 tentia, membranacea, citius emarcescentia, opposita et fere 

 ample xicaulia, brevissime petiolata, unguicularia ad polli- 

 caria, remota, interdum pollices plures distantia, obtusa, 

 acutiuscule et lato-dentata, lobis baseos integris rotundatis, 

 utrinque pilosula, subtus trinervia leviterque reticulato- 

 venosa, siccitate ferruginea ; superiora et ramea ovata vel 

 suborbiculata, pauca, bracteiformia, ter quaterve minora. 

 Folia alia subulato-acerosa, 2 — 3-linearia semiteretia, supra 

 sulcata, pilosula, acuta, laete viridia, nitida, sessilia, undique 

 patentia, 20 — 30 circiter conferta in fasciculos ovatos ungui- 



culares 



