Ceanothus. pentandria monogynia. 615 



ed, serrulate; obtusely acuminate. Peduncles axillary, few 

 or many-flowered ; flowers semi-digynous. 



A native of Nepal, from thence introduced by Dr. Buch- 

 anan into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, in 1802, where in 

 ten years they had grown to be slender trees, of about fifteen 

 feet in height, with innumerable well armed branches, and 

 smooth branchlets spreading- in every direction. Flowering' 

 time the rainy season. 



CEANOTHUS. Linn. 

 Petals five, vaulted, opposite to the stamens. Berry dry, 

 1 1 j ree-cel led , t hree-seeded . 



l.C. asialica. Linn. 



Erect, smooth. Leaves ovate, serrulate, glossy, tri-nerved 

 ;it the base; peduncles axillary, ramous, many-flowered, 

 shorter than the leaves. 



Grossularia spinis vidua, baccis in racemo congestis spa- 

 diceis, foliis crenatis ovato-acuminatis. Burm. ZeyL lll.t, 48. 



Jihamnus acuminata. Colebr. Mss. fide ic. pict. in horto 

 bot. Calc. asservata. 



I have found this small tree in flower and fruit in October 

 at Singapore. In the Honourable Company's Botanic gar- 

 den, where it was introduced from the garden at Reduite in 

 the Mauritius in 1813, it blossoms in April and May, and 

 ripens its fruit in June. 



A small branchy tree or large shrub : the largest of those 

 that were reared from the seeds measure at the present time 

 (1823), about sixteen feet in height, with a stem scarcely 

 more than four inches in diameter. Branches long, slender, 

 round, with green bark, slightly flexuose, perfectly smooth; 

 while young a little pubescent. Leaves irregularly scatter- 

 ed, ovate, oi° ovate-lanceolate, tapering into a blunt acumen ; 

 serrulate, serratures small, gibbous, incurved, cuspidate, 

 slightly undulate, base rounded or retuse, from two or three 



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