152 DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.: Ligustrum; — 
- Branches round, opposite, ash-coloured, dotted with callous spots; 
all the younger parts covered with abundance of soft hairs -~— Leaves | 
opposite, spreading, on very shert channelled petioles, varying cone 
siderably i in size and figure, mostly ovate with a rounded base, somes 
times oblong orlanceolar, generally tapering into along apex, terminas 
ted bya short cylindric point ; from one to two, or even three inches 
long, of a firm texture, shining above, densely villous underneath, when _ 
old entirely smooth, with very fine remote nerves communicating with 
each other in reticulated arches near the margin.— Panielesomewhat _ 
contracted, ovate, from four to six inches long, sessile; consistingof — 
pretty crowded racemes, the uppermost very short and alternate— 
Peduncles round, villous, with a deciduous small lanceolate braet une p 
der each division.— Flowers short-pedicelled, smooth, disposed in 
small bunches.— Calyx truncate, with four hardly discernible teeth. — 
—Corol ; tube equalling the calyx ; segments of the limb spreading, lan- E 
ceolate, acute, twice as long as the tube.— Stamina almost as longas | 
the corol ; filaments inserted within its mouth between two opposite 
fissures ; anthers oblong, bursting lenethways on both sides.—P' istil 
shorter than the stamina, smooth ; ovarium roundish, two-celled, with 
two pendulous ovula in each cell ; style short; stigma fleshy, oblong, 
acute.— Berries oval, dark blue ‘with a beautiful bloom on them, ra- 
ther smaller than coe of the common Privet ; pulp brown. — seeds. 
one or two; cotyledons broad-ovate. In other respects like those of 
: Ligustrum. Gert. Carp. ii. 72. tab. 92. 2 
Obs. This species differs from L. jeponicum, Thunb. and lucidum, ; 
Ait. in the figure and villosity of its leaves and the contracted shape | 
of its panicle, [t may perhaps be found the same as Li. sinense, Lout. 
especially if the racemes, which in the flora cochinchinensis are at- 
tributed to that tree, are considered as panicles, which indeed has d 
been done by the illustrious author of that article in Rees’ s N ew or 
clopzedia. 
A 
I possess specimens. taken from old branches, with 1 more re exp nde 
panicles, which together with the leaves are perfectly moat —N. W. A 
VERBENA, See Didynamia Angiospermia, 7 rS 
