as YETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA« Cornus. 
size various, the intermediate one is from four to six inches long, and 
the lowermost of the lateral ones from two to three inches long, tlie 
rest between these sizes.— Petioles common, round, downy, from 
three to five inches long.—Stipules cordate, pointed, falling.— Cymes 
leaf-opposed, cr axillary. — Peduncles half the length of the petioles, 
jointed, and bracted a little above the middle.— Berries white, four- 
lobed, depressed, four-seeded. 
15. C. serrulata, R. 
Perennial, scandent, smooth. Leaves pedate-quinate ; leafs obe 
long, serrulate. 
A native of Chivigoit; where it blossoms in April aud May. 
CORNUS. 
Calyx superior, four-toothed. Petals four. Drupe with a two- 
coleg nut. : 
1€ oblonga, Wall. 
Leaves oblong , acuminate, acute at the base, glaucous and sca- 
brous beneath, iif many excavated glands along the axils of the 
rib and nerves. Cymes spreading, panicled. 
Native of Nepala, where it is pretty common about silent; 
blossoming during the first half part of the year. — Specimens and 
seeds communicated by the Hon. E. Gardner, in 1818. 
A midling sized tree with copious spreading branches; the young 
shoots covered with short adpressed hair.— Leaves in approximate | 
pairs, spreading, from four to six inches long, acute at the base, an 
inch or an inch and a half broad, finely acuminate, beset with short 
adpressed hairs, dark-green and shining above, glaucous and sca- 
brous beneath, with elevated rib and sub-opposite arched nerves, 
the latter having in the axils at their base and along their outer side 
numerous ciliated glandular excavations which, when the leaves are 
dry, become slightly visible on their upper surface.—Periols from 
half an inch to an inch long, slender, channelled, rough. —Cyme tet- 
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