Ceanothus. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNITA. “615 
‘ed, serrulate; obtusely acuminate. Peduncles sais, few 
or many-flowered ; flowers semi-digynous, 
A native of Nepal, from thence introduced by Dr. Buch. 
anan into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, in 1802, where in 
ten years they had grown to be slender trees, of about fifteen 
feet in height, with innumerable well armed branches, and 
smooth branchlets spreading in every direction, Flowering 
time the rainy season, 
CEANOTHUS. Linn. 
Petals five, vaulted, opposite to the stamens, Berry dry, 
 three-celled, three-seeded. ; 
1. 'C. asiatica, Linn. oe 
Erect, smooth. Leaves ovate, serrulate, glossy, lence 
at the base; peduncles axillary, ramous, many-flowered, 
shorter than sa leaves. : 
_Grossularia spinis vidua, baccis in racemo congestis spa- 
hee foliis crenatis ovato-acuminatis. Burm. Zeyl. 111. t, 48, 
_ Rhamnus acuminata, Colebr. Mss. fide ic. pict. in horto 
bot. Cale. asservata. 
~ Thave found this small tree in flower and fruit in October 
at Singapore. In the Honourable Company’s Botanic gar- 
~ den, where it was introduced from the garden at Reduite in 
the Mauritius in 1813, it blossoms in April and May, and 
ripens its fruit in June. 
_ A small branchy tree or large shrub: the largest of those 
that were reared from the seeds measure at the present time 
(1823), about sixteen feet in height, with a stem scarcely 
more than four inches in diameter. Branches long, slender, 
round, with green bark, slightly flexuose, perfectly smooth ; 
while young a little pubescent. Leaves deugulatiy aeatesr- 
ed, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, tapering into a blunt acumen ; 
serrulate, serratures small, gibbous, incurved, cuspidate, 
atid undulate, base rounded or retuse, from two or shee 
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