184 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Loranthus. 
B. asiatica, they are triple at the base of the pedicels. Ca- 
lyx nine-leaved ; leaflets in three series ; the exterior three 
minute ; the inner three nearly as long as the petals. Pe- 
tals six-obovate, entire. Nectarial glands oblong, Fila- 
ments inserted into the base of the petals. Anthersa long 
operculated pit in each side of the filaments, just under 
the apex. Germ oblong, one-celled, containing two seeds, 
attached to the bottom of the cell. Style short. Stigma 
peltate, glandular. 
3. B. pinnata. R. 
Leaves unequally pinnate; leaflets grossly spinous, 
dentate. Racemes terminal, . 
Candingne young more, is the vernacular name in the 
Munipoor Country, where it is indigenous. It flowers in 
November. 
Thunbere’s figure of his Ilex Japonica is so very like 
this plant, as to induce me to think they may be the same. — 
NANDINA. Schreb. gen. n. 596.. 
Calyx many-leaved, imbricated. Curol nixohotallal 
Berry one-celled, two seeded. Embryo inverse, and far- 
nished with a perisperm. 
N. domestica. Willd. 2, 230. Thunb. ge 147, Gert. 
sem, 2. 69, Bot. Mag. 1109. 
Said to be a native of Japan ; it was et be from 
Canton in China into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta by 
Mr, William Kerr. 
LORANTHUS. Schreb. gen. n. 600. 
Calyx uncertain. Corol generally one-petalled wad of- 
ten irregular, Germ interior, one-celled, one-seeded ; at- 
tachment superior, Berry one-seeded. ES eres 
and —_e with a perisperm. 
