of the Order Myrsinese. 101 



indivisum. Fructus drupaceus (recentem nondum vidi) globosus, apice depressus, abortu 

 1- raro 2-spennus, subsessilis, basi calyce persistente instructus, magnitudine Uvse mi- 

 noris ; sarcocarpio camoso saccharino dulci. Semen abortu solitarium, rotundissimum, 

 (vel nunc duo semiglobosa) diametro 4 lineas emetiens, erectum, sessile, hilo lato exca- 

 vato impresso umbilicatum, foveis 3-4 impressis (ovulorum abortientium vestigiis) juxta 

 hilum notatum ; testa glaberrima, laevigata, fusca, ossea, intus undique lamellis verticali- 

 bus elevatis crassis robustis flexuosis, albuminis sinus profunde penetrantibus, asperata ; 

 processu umbilical! incrassato, irregulariter conico, lacero, ad medium usque albuminis 

 intruso ; micropyle juxta hilum prominula discolori ; membrana interior adnata, spon- 

 giosa, fusca ; albumen copiosum, embryone triplo majus, cartilagineum, album, lobato- 

 ruminatum. Embryo magnus, subexcentricus, respectu umbilici transverse arcuatus, 

 amphitropus, albidus; cotyledones elongatae, planae, foliaceee, latiusculae; radicula 

 teretiuscula, crassa, brevis, hilo approximata ; plumula inconspicua. (Vidi viv. Descript. 

 et icon, ad exempla sice, confect.) 



Edgeworthia is one of the most characteristic forms of Lower AfFghanistan, 

 occurring in great abundance near Peshawur, and in the neighbouring hills. 

 It grows associated with a species oi Dodoncea {D. dioica, Roxb. ?), Olea Lai- 

 toona, an undescribed Asclepiadeous genus (Campelepis*), and a species of 

 Rhazya, all of which are prevailing forms. I met with it in August 183/, and 

 it was subsequently found by Mr. W. Griffith, to whom I owe the first know- 

 ledge of the remarkable fact of the style being protruded in the bud. 



I follow most systematic botanists in considering Theophrastece as a section 

 merely of Myrsinece ; the distinctive characters of the tribe not appearing 



* Campelepis. 



Nat. Ord. Asclepiadese, Tr. Periploceae. 



Corolla rotata, 5-fida; fauce coronate squamis 5 cum segmentis altemantibus, brevibus, flexuoso-tri- 

 lobis, confluentibus, medio aristatis, aristis filiformibus erectis apice uncinatis ; tube intis squa- 

 mxilis totidem inclusis, laceris, patentibus, staminibus oppositis, instructo. Filamenta distincta, 

 fauci infra squamas inserta. Anthera sagittatse, apiculo acute terminatse, dorse barbatse, basi 

 stigmatis medio adglutinatse. Masses pollinis solitariae, granulosae, corpusculorum stigmatis ap- 

 pendiculis dilatatis applicitse. Stigma dilatatum, muticum. FollicuU cylindracei, laeves, divari- 

 catissimi. Semina ad umbilicum comosa. 



Frutex erectus, ramosissimus, glaber, quasi aphyllus ; feliis sguameeformibus, deciduis, remotis ; cymis 

 brevi pedunculaiis, paucifloris ; floribus parvis, coriaceis ; coroUae laciniis intus prope apicem bar- 

 batis, disco leprosis. 



Campelepis viminea. 



Habitat passim in Bactrim Inferiere ; prope Peshawur, Attock, &c. 



