LEYCESTERIA form6sa. 

 Beautiful Leycesteria. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYl^lA. 



Nat. ord. Caprifoliace^. 



LEYCESTERIA, Wallich. Calxjx 5-partitus, inaequalis, persistens. 

 Corolla regularis, infundibularis, tubo basi hinc gibbo. Stamina 5, exserta. 

 Ovarium 5-\ocula.Te; loculis omnibus polyspermis. Stigma ca.pita.tum. Bacca 

 calyce coronata. 



L. Formosa. Wallich Plant, as. rar. vol. II. p. IX.t. 120. id. in Roxh. Ft. 

 ind. 2. 181. DeCand. prodr. 4. 338. Endl. gen. pi. 558.no. 3335. 



Folia infericra in surculis robustioribus scepe tripartita vel triloba. 



"This charming shrub," says Dr. Wallich, " grows wild 

 on the highest mountains surrounding the valley of Nepal, 

 blossoming from April to October. I have also had it from 

 much more northerly situations towards Gossain Than. 

 According to my friend Dr. Govan, it is found in abundance 

 at an elevation seldom less than 8000 feet above the plains, 

 among the pine and oak forests of Bishuhur, as at Huttoo, 

 and at Desoo in the Thakooraee of Kioonthul, blossoming 

 from June till August, and called by the natives NulJmroo.'" 

 The stem is said to grow from ten to twelve feet high, from 

 an inch to an incb and a third in diameter. Berries dark 

 purple, approaching: to black. 



Dr. Royle speaks of it as common in Nepal and Kemaon, 

 as well as in Sirmore, at elevations of from 6000 to 7000 

 feet. 



* So named by Dr. Wallich after his friend William Leycester, Esq. chief 

 judge of the principal native court under the Bengal Presidency, a zealous friend 

 of horticulture. 



