of the Order Myrsinese. \i)\ 



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

 1- raro 2-spermus, subsessilis, basi calyce persistente instructus, magnitudine V\;v mi- 

 noris ; sarcocarpio carnoso saccharine dulci. Semen abortu solitarium, rotundissimum, 

 (vel nunc duo semiglobosa) diametro 4 lineas emetiens, erectum, sessile, hilo latd 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 umbilicali 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. Embiyo magnus, subexcentricus, respectu umbilici transverse areuatus. 

 amphitropus, albidus; cotyledones elongatae, planar, foliaccae, latiuscuhr; 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 Afghanistan, 

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

 It grows associated with a species of 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 1837, 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 Theophrasteee as a section 

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



* Campelepis. 



Nat. Ord. Asclepiadese, TV. Periploceae. 



Corolla rotata, 5-fida; fauce coronata squamis 5 cum segmentis alternantibus, brevibus, flexuoso-tri- 

 lobis, confluentibus, medio aristatis, aristis filiformibus erectis apice uncinatis ; tubo intus squa- 

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

 fauci infra squamas inserta. Antherce sagittate, apiculo acuto terminate, dorso barbatae, basi 

 stigmatis medio adglutinatse. Massce pollinis solitarise, granulosa, corpusculorum stigmatis ap- 

 pendiculis dilatatis applicitae. Stigma dilatatum, muticum. Folliculi cylindracei, laeves, divari- 

 catissimi. Semina ad umbilicum comosa. 



Frutex erectus, ramosissimus, glaber, quasi aphyllus ; foliis squamee/ormibus, deciduis, remotis ; cymis 

 breve pedunculatis, paucifloris ; floribus parvis, coriaceis ; corollse laciniis intus prope apicem bar- 

 batis, disco leprosis. 



Campelepis viminea. 



Habitat passim in Bactria Inferiore ; prope Peshawur, Attock, &c. 



