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400 /— CFETRANDHIA MONOGYNIA. Gardiiria, 
cóming reddish as they grow old, beautifully contrasting with the shin- 
ing dark green leaves, which are not unlike those of L Bandhuca. 
The colour of the flower resembles that of the pink variety of I. Cle 
neifolia; it is paler than the variety of I. stricta, which Roxburgh 
formerly used to.call 1. incarnata.—-N. W. i yA 
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~GARDNERIA. 
. Calyx inferior, Corol fiat., Stamina partly PE. into a tube. 
Berry two-celled. Seeds solitary, Tee 
1. G. ovata. Wail. 
A native of the niountains in the district of Sithet in Bett and: 
of Nepala. It blossoms in the hot and — season, and fipens its 
fruit i in the cold. — | s 2 
Khasee name, Huldi. In Nepala, Oocha-Soa. egg 
A strong climbing smooth. shrub, with long slender round branch- 
es; the new twigs have a green bark and are obscurely four-sided. 
— Leaves opposite, approximated, spreading, petioled, ovate or lan- 
ceolate, acuminate, pointed at the base, entire, smocth on both sides, 
à tig Jak 
very dark and shining above, pale underneath, with elevated rib and 
- transversal sub-opposite very fine nerves, which unite with each other 
and with the reticulated veins in sub-marginal arches. They measure’ 
from three to four inches, and are generally twice as long as their’ 
| interstices.— Petiols round, channeled above, slightly curved, half au. 
inch long, widening at the base and surrounding the branch with 
an elevated, fleshy, narrow, erect margin, concealing. in their axils a 
series of short subulate fleshy withering cilie.— Stipules no others 
than the appendices ` just described. —Corymbs axillary, opposite, 
equalling or somewhat exceeding the leaves in length, slender, with 
one or two pairs of small lanceolar leaves under their primary div. 
sions. .. Peduncles slender, opposite, an inch or an inch and a balf 
long, three-flow ered, pedicels clavate with two lanceolate minate 
bractes at the base, and generally a pair above their middle ; the in- 
termediate ones miortet Cage very small, cup-shaped, persistent, 
