Pyrostria: - TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIM 468 . 
tion of the Embryo are perfectly like those of Psychotria, Coffea and 
- Frora. It has the excavation of the seed in-common with Pavetta 
indica” and several. species of Jaora; the ventral aperture is how 
‘tier: much larger here and circumscribed by a somewhat, widened 
margin.— Fhe younger parts of the plant as well as the ‘dark-colours 
ed shining leaves contain a yellowish j juice, from which probably the: 
Silhet name is derived ; indeed: they ave not unlike those of Guttiferes 
My Nepala specimens | differ in sone degree from the others ; 
their leav es are smaller, lanceolate and more narrow ; the segments of 
the corolla laticeolate-and more villous, the berries large and crown- 
ed with the persistent long style ; stigma’ bifid. | = 
—.. Y have dedicated this new genus to. the Hon. Edward as, ; 
Jate resident àt the court of the Raja of Nepala, by whose indefa- 
 tigable exertions and liberality the Botanic Garden at Calcutta has 
been enriched by the most splendid additions of growing plants; seeds, 
and specimens of the inter esting and hitherto mostly unknown vege- 
‘table productions of that country, of which ample and frequent col= 
lections have been transmitted to Great Britain.—N. W. 
PYROSTRIA. Juss. Gen. el. Ust. 229. » 
Calyx four-toothed. Corol. with cylindiic tube, and four-cleft: 
border... Drupe inferior, with as far as. eight, onesseeded nuts. 
1. P- Aerasperma. R. 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, acute, e entire: ‘ oigube 
axillary, and also within the cuspidate, hairy 4 stipules, dichotomousé. 
Drupe six-seeded. , ! : 
A vative of the Island of Honimoa. UK 
'ender-shoots clothed with. brown hairs.— Leaves opposite, apż- 
i proximate, short-petioled, oblong, acute, entire, a little hairy 5 fron 
three to four inches long g.— Stipules within the leaves cüspidate, hai- 
ry.—Peduncles opposite; with the stipules many times longer thar 
À tbe petioles, each ending in a small twice dichotomous, coryrtibiforma 
* Gaertn, tory. i. P 115. t.25. 
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