of two new Geneva of Plants from Nepal. 613 



culares breve petiolatos patenu ■>. axillaris folionun cauli- 

 norum oppositos vel terminales. Pctioti foliorun) majorum 

 vix 2-Iineares, supra sulcati, pilosuli, basi lineold n nuis- 

 sima caulem vel ramum ambientes. Stipula nulhe. Flo- 

 res parvi, solitarii, axillares, vel centralis in fasciculis pe- 

 dicello insidentes brevissimo villoso ebracteato. Cali/.v sub- 

 ova tus, persistens, dense villosus, profundi* ,3-partitus, la- 

 ciniis patentiusculis linearibus purpureo-acutis. Corolla 

 rosea, calyce duplo major, tnfundibuliformis, glabra; ta- 

 bus obsolete 4-gonus medio ventricosus, floretcens ; Umbus 

 patens, 5- (raro (5-) fidus, valde obscure 2-labiatus, eestiva- 

 tione imbricatus, laciniis ovalibus obtusis nunc parum rvin- 

 sis, duabus superioribus parum latioribufl ; faux pervia, nu- 

 da. Stamina quatuor aequalia parum supra faucem ele- 

 vata medio tubi inserta, antheris ovatis erectis parum COD 

 niventibus utrinquc longitudinalitcr dehiscentibus uudifl 

 Pist ilium staminibus parum brcvius ; ovarium Bubrotundum, 

 laeve ; disco hypogyno exiguo annularj flavicante suffultum, 

 biloculare, polysporum, ovulis placentae dissepimento apice 

 minutim perforato utrinque adnata^ insertis ; ntyiut teres 

 brevis; stigma leviter incrassatum, simplex, acutum. Bacca 

 ovato-globosa, magnitudine pisi, stylo persistente coronata, 

 suffulta calyce patentissimo baud aucta, coccinea, laevissima, 

 nitida, inscripta lineis gracillimis impressis quatuor e verticc 

 cruciatim decurrentibus, commissures valvarum mentien- 

 tibus, cultro difficilius in totidem valvulas partibilibus, nun- 

 quam sponte dehiscens ; membrana a t trior tenuissima, char- 

 tacea: caro spongiosa, pallida, basi copiosior vertice tenui- 

 or. Dissepiment am incompletum, membranacemn, tenuis- 

 simum, vertice perforatum hiatu inverse triangulari aetate 

 ultra medium baccae deorsum extenso. Placenta dua: semi- 

 lunato-bicorncs Spongioses, convex?e, hiatui dissepiment i 

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