108 DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Chionanthus. 
tender, marked with four ribs from the apex to the base, with four 
small, imperfect ones between, one-celled.— Seed solitary, conform 
to the nut. Ditegument single, thin, and tender.— Perisperm none. - 
Embryo inverse. Cotyledous conform to the seed.—Radicle patel- — 
liform superior. ES. 
A. C. ? smilacifolia. Wail. 
Shrubby, scandent, with four-sided branches. Leaves oval, acu- 
 minate, three-nerved, gloucous. Panicle terminal and asillary, ra- j 
mous, brachiate. : 
A native of the forests of C Man where it is called Chunala- 
ta. In the Botanic Garden it blossoms in April. 
A rambling ever green ramous shrub, with ash-coloured separat- 
ing bark.— Branches long and slender, acutely and exactly four-sid- | 
ed, as well as the other parts of the plant gloucous, smooth.— ~ 
Leaves opposite, spreading, petioled, five to seven inches long, 
about three inches broad, acute at the base, firm and leathery, upper 
surface undulated (bullate) between the principal vessels, nerves and | 
rib much elevated on the pale under surface, and uniting a little 
above the base ; ; veins a few, reticulated. There are two additional 
very thin nerves originating at the insertion of the petiole, which to- 
gether with the preceding larger ones run along the margins of the 
leaf, forming two arched sub-marginal veins on each side.— Petioles 
scarcely an inch long, round, channelled above, articulated at the 
_ base.—Stipules none.—- Panicles short-peduncled, pyramidate, acu- 
minate, ramous, brachiate, about the size of the larger leaves.— 
Peduncles four-sided, much sub-divided, the upper ones sub-alter- — 
nate ; pedicels pubescent, slightly flattened.— Bractes lanceolate, ve- 
ry small deciduous, opposite under each subdivision of the pa- ; 
nicle.— Flowers small, almost scentless, ternate, sessile, smooth, 
greenish yellow.—Calyz urceolate, inferior, with four lanceolate 
acute erect, purple-margined teeth.— Corol infundibuliform, some- 
what fleshy. Tube twice as long as the calyx, large, obscurely four- 
sided, Limb four-parted, longer than the tube, spreading ; divisions 
