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Young shoots slender, smooth and drooping consider. 
ably. Leaves bifarious, short-petioled, unequally lanceo- 
late, very equally obtuse-serrate, of a very hard texture, 
with a lucid surface; length from two to three inches; 
about one broad, Stipules ensiform, caducous. Flowers 
numerous, small, long-pedicelled, collected in little so- 
litary fascicles in the lower axills, or in those of the 
former year’s leaves. __ Pedicells slender, villous, one- 
flowered. Bractes many, round the insertion of the pedi- 
cells, oval, ciliate. Calyx campanulate, five-toothed, 
smooth. Filaments, six, longer than the calyx, broad, 
smooth, Anthers oval, two-lobed. Germ superior, while 
in the calyx subsessile, but after it opens it becomes 
pedicelled, oblong, one-celled, containing one ovula, at- 
tached to the top ofthe cell. Styles two, short, broad, and 
villous on the inner edge. Stigmas simple. Capsule pedi- 
celled, unequally-obcordate, very thin, scariose, wing- 
ed, nearly an inch each way, one-celled. Seed solitary, 
oval, compressed. Integument single, thin, brown. Peris- 
perm none. Embryo conform to the seed, inverse. 
2. U. virgata. R. 
Branchlets pendulous. Leaves lucid, obliquely-oblong, 
equally serrate, base’ unequal. Flowers crowded, short 
‘peduncled, tetrandrous. Fruit obliquely oval, sessile. 
From China this beautiful, small slow growing tree, 
was introduced into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, by 
Sir John Royds ; wherein about ten years, from the time 
ofits arrival, it began to blossom in November, and ripen- 
ed its seed in February. pedi: ve 
Trunk in trees of ten or twelve years growth, nearly 
erect, short, and not thicker than a man’s leg, Branches 
few, spreading much; many of the extreme branchlets run 
out into very long, slender, pendulous twigs. Bark of 
the young parts lighter coloured, and a little scabrous. 
‘Height of the whole tree about ten feet, Leaves alter- 
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