fles. TETRANDRIÁ TETRAGYNIA. 473 
Spikes solitary in the fork of the .branches, sather long.peduncled, 
from four to eight-flowered, when in blossom emerged, afterwards 
immerged.—Corol, stamina, and germ as in.the genus, but here there 
certainly. is a style with four large, obliquely truncated. stigmas,— 
Seed as in P. natans, Gert. sem. 11. 23 tab. 84. 
ILEX. 
` Calyt four-toothed. Corolla rotate, fauteclets ip none. Ber- 
ry kan two-to four-seeded. 
q T  dipyrena, Wall. 
Leaves oblong, accuminate, short-petioled, smooth, scarcely un- 
dulated, remotely serrate, serratures spinous ; flowers sessile i Th axil- 
lary fascicles ; berries two-seeded. 
A very large tree, native of Nepala, where it is called Caulah. 
Blossoms from April to J july, and produces fruit during the rainy 
. season. ] have also received, Specimens gathered by Dr, Govan 
about Saharunpore, and bv Capt, W. S. Webb, on the confines of. 
Chinese Tartary, where he informs me the. tree is called Kundar. 
Branchdets angular, with. cinereous. bark ; young : shoots pube- 
scent.— Leaves alternate, copious, approximated, oblong, sometimes 
lanceolate-oblong, attenuated into an acumen, sharp. at, the base ; 
margins slightly binden while young repand-serrate. with strong 
spines, wben old more remotely and slightly serrated, sometimes 
almost. entire; of a firm and leathery texture, perfectly smooth and 
polished ; rib very prominent, furrowed above ; nerves short, nearly 
transversal, divided towards the margin into rediculated veins ; from 
three to nearly five inches long, one to one and a half briunati- 
-oles not above two lines long, pubescent, deeply furrowed. —Flow- 
ers subsessile, collected into eee axillary subsessile fascicies.— 
. Pediceís very short, each supported by a couple of minute rounded 
concave ciliated bractes.—Calyx divided into four broad-ovate, acute, 
ciliate tecth,—Corolla deeply four-cleft, flat and spreading ; segments 
ovate, four times longer than the calyx, obtuse, smooth. — J'i/aments 
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