26 DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA, Prasium, 
other, and to the calyx, the long, woolly segments of which — 
readily carry them with the wind to a great distance. 
2. C. oppositifolia, 
Leaves opposite, broad-lanceolar, crenate. 
A native of Nepal, from thence Dr. Buchanan sent the 
seeds to this garden, where the plants thrive well, and phos, 
som in February. 
Trunk short, soon dividing into many nearly erect branch- 
es, covered with ash-coloured bark, while young four-sided, 
with rounded angles, and very downy. Leaves opposite, 
decussate, short-petioled, broad-lanceolar, crenate, very soft 
and downy, and considerably wrinkled. Stipules none. 
Panicles terminal, with the primary branches opposite, upp 
porting many cylindric; amentaceous: spikes of near: : d 
same length, Calyx ; common perianth many- (from fourt™ i 2 
twelve) flowered, many- (from eight to ten) leaved, imbri- 
cated, permanent. Proper perianth five-cleft; divisions 
filiform, hairy, the length of the tube of florets, their apices 
coloured, and less hairy. Corol; universal equal ; proper 
one-petalled. Tube gibbous, border four-parted, the middle 
lobe of the lower division large, and nearly round, the upper — 
broader and emarginate, unequal, remote. lament, scarce- 
ly any. .4nthers minute, hid in the mouth of the corol, 
Germ tour-lobed, Style twice the length of the corol. Stig- 
ma two-cleft, acute. Pericarp none. Seeds four, lodged 
in the bottom of the enlarged hairy, proper perianth, Recep- 
tacle naked, ffat. 
PRASIUM. Schreb. gen. N. 992. 
_Gen, Cnar. Berries four, one-seeded, Embryo erect, 
without perisperm, 
P, melissifolium. R. “ti 
Perennial, scandent. — Leaves opposite, peel ovate, 
serrate, Flowers’ sessile, sub-verticelled, ise 
