Buonymus. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNTA, 627 
on the apex, two-celled, with two ovala in each attached to 
the base of the cell, Styles two; slightly united at the base, 
Yecurved, Stigmas headed. Capsules ovate-oblong, size of 
a small olive, smooth, brown, one-celled, two-valved. | Seeds 
generally two ; when so lanceolate, and flat on the inner side, 
arilled, Integuments smooth, light chesnut-colour, pretty 
thick and may while recent be divided into two or three la: 
mina ; aril complete within half a line of the apex, thick and 
_ soft, colour a lively bright yellow. Perisperm conform to 
the seed, soft, white. Embryo erect. Cotyledons cordate. 
Radicle cylindric, as long as the cotyledons, inferior. 
EVONYMUS. Schreb. gen. N. 373. 
Corol from four to five-petalled. Germ from two to five- 
celled ; cells two-seeded ; attachment inferior, Capsule su- 
perior, three or four-celled, three or four-valyed, Seeds ca- 
lyptred. E'mbryo erect, and furnished with a perisperm, 
1. E. atropurpurea, Willd. spec. i, 1132. 
Shrubby, erect. Leaves opposite, lanceolar, smooth, ser- 
rulate, Peduneles few-flowered ; flowers tetrandrous, 
Found by Dr. Buchanan in Nepal, from whence he sent 
seed to this garden, where in eight years the plants are four 
or five feet high, thin of branches; and now beginning to 
blossom in March. 
Trunk erect. Bark smooth, and ash-coloured. Branch- 
lets spreading, round, and smooth. Leaves opposing sate 
perieints Magecias, mania on eee ane nist ‘tie ely serra 
Seigler while the dinette i setdior dasa. do bris- 
tle or two occupy their place, . Peduncles below the leaves, 
opposite, expanding, diehotomous, each division three-flow- 
ered, with generally one in the fork, Flowers pedicelled, 
_ small, greenish white, Calyx four-leaved; leaflets round, 
concave and smooth. Petals four, cordate, emi i 
Na. 
