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gl/mfh podicftUofl, trian^^nlarly sagittate. Jierriei sphe- 

 rical, oi the size and appearance of a bhirk currant. .S>e</ii 

 and Kinhryo as in the genus. 



15. L. hiUjcularu. R. 



Arboreous, with a straight trunk, and many, far-ex- 

 tended branches. Leaven opposite, and alternate, broad- 

 lanceolar, veined. HacemeH solitary under the leaves, or 

 axillary. /''/7tfm<?n^« without glands. Neclariea xwnt. An- 

 tkern hilociilar. Berries oblong, glaucous, 



A native of the country about Tippera, from thence 

 Stephen Harris, Enq. sent plants to the Botanic garden 

 at Calcutta in 1797, where at the age of ten years, they 

 blossomed in March, and the fruit ripened in June. 



Trunk straight. In trees thirteen years old, two feet in 

 circumference four feet from the root, covered with 

 smooth, ash-coloured bark. Branches very numerous, and 

 spreading horizontally to a great extent, forming a large, 

 uncommonly dense, broad-ovate .shady head ; young 

 shoots round and smooth, j^een on the .side most remote 

 from the sun, and purplish on the other. Leaves oppo- 

 site and alternate, petioled, veined, broad-lanceolar, of- 

 ten unequal at the ba.se, entire, obtu.se.pointed, smooth 

 on both sides ; about six inches long and two broad, 

 deciduous during the cold season, and appearing with the 

 flowers in .March. Petioles one-nixth or one-eighth the 

 length of the leaves, round, smooth. Peduncles dLxiUnry 

 and from the ba.se of the young .shoots below the tender 

 leaves, solitary, scarcely .so long as the petioles, round, a 

 little villous, bearing a few, viz. from six to twelve, small 

 pedicelled pretty yellow flowers, in form of a raceme. 

 Bractes one under the in.sertion of each pedicel, ovate, ca- 

 ducous. Calyx of .six oblong, villous, expanding.segments, 

 &c. as in all the other species examined by me. Corol 

 none. Filaments nine, six in the outer series and three in 

 the inner, all without glands. Anthers oblong-oval e, bilo- 



