100 — DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. PAiülyrea 
half the length of the tube.— Berries about the size of a small olive, 
of a dark purple colour ; their skin separating, transparent. 
~ Obs. In March 1818 I received specimens with flowers and ripe - 
berries from the Honourable Mr. Edward Gardner, the resident at 
Katmandu in Napaul, to whose uuremitting kindness and exertions 
the Botanic Garden owes a very great accession of the most rare and 
curious plants, natives of that interesting country. - "This handsome 
species is very distinct from the preceding one, but seems to approach 
to J. didymum, Forst. aud J. divaricatum, Brown Prodr. i. 521. 
PHILLYREA. Schreb. gen. N. 94. 
‘Calyx four-toothed. Corol one-petalled, four-cleft. Germ two-cel- 
led, two-seeded. Drupe or Berry superior, one or two-seeded. Em- 
bryo inverse, and furnished with a perisperm. 
Y. P. paniculata. eios 
"Arboreous. Leaves opposite, disi entire, smooth. dee 
dle ‘terminal. 
A native of China, and from thence introduced into the Botanic 
Garden near Calcutta, before 1793. Now, 1802, they have grown to 
be beautiful small trees, of from fifteen to twenty feet in height, 
clothed almost to the ground, with numerous, opposite, spreading, 
and drooping branches, covered with smooth, ash-coloured bark. 
Leaves opposite, petioled, drooping, ovate, and ovate-oblong, sides 
‘incurved, entire, leathery, smooth on both sides, above a shining deep 
‘green, underneath glaucous, with two or more obscure glands near 
their base: length four or five inches, breadth from two to three.— Pe- 
_ :tioles short, recurved, channelled.—Stipules none.— Panicles termi- 
nal from the exterior axills, ramifications thereof opposite, and 
smooth.— Flowers very numerous, rather small, , pure white, some- 
what fragrant.— Bractes minute, caducous.—Calyr obscurely four- 
toothed.— Coro one-petalled ; tube short; segments linear, revolute, 
smooth.— Filaments opposite, inserted into the bottom of the tube — 
