38 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



42612 to 42630— Continued. 



lanceolate, acuminate; peduncles solitary, each carrying a many-flowered 

 umbel. Fruit glabrous. (Adapted from Hooker, Flora of British India, 

 vol. 2, p. 722, 1879.) 



42613. Brassaiopsis speciosa Dec. and Planch. Araliaceae. 



Frequently found from Nepal and Assam to Chittagong. A small tree 

 of almost palmlike character, scarcely branched, and leafy only at the 

 extremity of the branches. The leaves are large, on long petioles, swollen 

 at the base, digitate, consisting of about seven large leaflets which arc 

 oblong-lanceolate and glabrous. Racemes 4 to 5 feet long, pendent from 

 the apex of the stem, and bearing at the end of the branches large 

 densely-flowered umbels of a brownish or yellowish green color. One- 

 seeded, subglcbose fruits. (Adapted from Cvrtis's Botanical Magazine, 

 pi. .'/SO h, as Hedera glomerulaia ; and Hooker, Flora of British India, vol. 

 2, p. 737.) 



42614. Byttnekia aspera Colebr. Sterculiacese. 



'• A climbing shrub of the central and eastern Himalayas up to 4,000 

 feet, the Khasia Hills, the tropical forests of Burma, and the Andaman*. 

 It forms often a very dense growth, and has large fruit with strong 

 spikes." (Gamble, A Manual of Indian Timbers, 2d ed., p. 105.) 



42615. Campanula coloeata Wall. Campanulaceae. Bellflower. 



The deep-colored bellflower from the high altitudes of India and 

 Afghanistan is variable in its growth, sometimes erect, at others trailing. 

 A desirable ornamental for rock gardens. The slender stems are much 

 branched and grow to a length of 2 feet. The leaves are broadly oval 

 or ovate-lanceolate, and sessile or attenuated into a short footstalk. The 

 flowers are bell shaped, deep bright purple, the tube being rather 

 elongated and the lobes rather large, spreading. (Adapted from Curtis'* 

 Botanical Magazine, pi. 4555.) 



42616. DispoetjM calcaratum D. Don. Gonvallariaceae. 



" This species, remarkable for the length of the spurs at the base of 

 the sepals, was collected by Mr. Gomez on the Jentya Hills in Sylhet, a 

 mountainous region on the northeastern frontier of Bengal. The flowers, 

 which appear in May, are apparently of a green color, and vary from 

 two to five in the umbel. The leaves are altogether sessile, not being nar- 

 rowed at the base as in most of the other species. The inflorescence 

 in the rest of the genus, is really terminal, although from the prolonga- 

 tion of the branches beyond it, it has the appearance of being lateral." 

 (/). Don, in Transactions of the IAnnean Society of London, vol. IS. p. 

 516, 1841.) 



42617. Gaui.theria tbichophyixa Royle. Ericaceae. 



A low evergreen shrub of densely tufted habit, 3 to 6 inches high, 

 spreading by means of underground shoots; stems wiry and slender, 

 bristly. Leaves narrow, glossy dark green above, pale beneath. Flowers 

 solitary in the leaf axils; corolla pink, one-sixth of an inch long and 

 wide, bell shaped. Fruit blue-black. Native of the Himalayas up to 

 13,000 feet. Ii is a dainty plant suitable for the rock garden and pleasing 

 for the bright green of its foliage and neat habit. Propagated by cut- 

 tings and division. (Adapted from W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy 

 in the British Isles, vol. 1, p. 582.) 



