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smooth, of a deep, shining green on the upper surface, and 

 glaucous underneath ; from six to ten inches long, and 

 from two to three and a half broad. Panicles many, round 

 a smooth scaly bud, which forms the apex of the branch- 

 let, and also from the axils of their subquatern leaves, 

 long-peduncled, subdecussate ; ramifications smooth, and 

 tending to be four-cornered ; ultimate divisions three- 

 flowered. Flowers very numerous, small, greyish-yel- 

 low. Bractes caducous at an early period, clothed with 

 greyish, sericeous pubescence. Calyx six-cleft, &c. as in 

 the genus, somewhat sericeous. Nectar ial filaments hairy, 

 with large cordate-sagittate heads. Stamina as in the ge- 

 nus, the inner three filaments have their glands clavate, 

 and hairy. Germ superior, ovate, one-celled, containing 

 a single ovula, attached to the top of the cell. Style 

 shorter than the stamina. Stigma large, three-angled. 

 Berries oval, succulent, the size of a field bean, smooth ; 

 when ripe, black, one-celled, one-seeded, &c. as in the 

 genus. 



9. L. dulcis. R. 



Leaves sub-opposite, three-nerved, lanceolate. Pa. 

 nicies terminal and axillary ; nectarial glands with pur- 

 ple cordate heads. 



This elegant, tall, slender, small tree, I have only 

 found in an Armenian's garden near Calcutta, who in- 

 forms me that he got the plants from China about seven 

 years ago ; they are in flower about the beginning of the 

 hot season, in March and April, the seed ripens early in 

 the rains. 



Trunk straight, and high in proportion to its thickness ; 

 bark ash-coloured, and smooth. Branches elegantly scat- 

 tered in all directions, with extremities often pendulous, 

 forming a slender, oblong head. Leaves opposite, or 

 nearly so, drooping, short-petioled, lanceolate, entire, ra- 

 ther obtuse, three-nerved, with the lateral ones vanishing 



