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in all four-toothed. Corol none. Filaments in the complete- 

 ly hermaphrodite flower much longer than the calyx. In the 

 female wanting-, or abortive, and hid within the calyx. Male 

 flowers not found. Germ ovate. Style long, and curved. 

 Stigma emarginate. 



LI GUST RUM. 

 Corol four-cleft. Berry superior of two cells with two seeds 

 in each cell. 



] . L. nepalense. Wall. 



Leaves ovate, or ovate-oblong, acuminate, villous below. 

 Panicle terminal, villous, consisting of sub-erect crowded 

 racemes. 



A native of the mountains of Nepala, where it is called 

 Goonufacha and grows to be a considerable tree, producing 

 profuse clusters of white, sweet smelling flowers from April 

 to June ; berries ripen in four to six months. 



Branches round, opposite, ash-coloured, dotted with cal- 

 lous spots ; all the younger parts covered with abundance of 

 soft hairs. Leaves opposite, spreading, on very short chan- 

 nelled petioles, varying considerably in size and figure, 

 mostly ovate with a rounded base, sometimes oblong or 

 lanceolar, generally tapering into a long apex, terminated 

 by a short cylindric point ; from one to two, or even three 

 inches long, of a firm texture, shining above, densely villous 

 underneath, when old entirely snioolh, with very fine remote 

 nerves communicating with each other in reticulated arches 

 near the margin. Panicle somewhat contracted, ovate, from 

 four to six inches long, sessile, consisting of pretty crowded 

 racemes, the uppermost very short and alternate. Peduncles 

 round, villous, with a deciduous small lanceolate bracte un- 

 der each division. Flowers short-pedicelled, smooth, dispos- 

 ed in small bunches. Calyx truncate, with four hardly dis- 

 cernible teeth. Corol; tube equalling the calyx ; segments 



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