100 jDiANDRiA MONooyNiA. PhUlijree. 



half the length of the tube. — Berries about the size of a small olive, 

 of a dark purple colour ; their skin separating, transparent. 



Obs. In March 1818 I received specimens with flowers and ripe 

 berries from the Honourable Mr. Edward Gardner, the resident at 

 Katmandu in Napaul, to whose unremitting kindness and exertions 

 the Botanic Garden owes a very great accession of the most rare and 

 curious plants, natives of that interesting country. This handsome 

 species is very distinct from the preceding one, but seems to approach 

 to J. didymum, Forst. and J, divaricatum, Brown Prodr. i. 521. 



PHILLYREA. Schreb. gen. N. 24. 



Calyx four-toothed. 'Corol one-petalled, four-cleft. Germ two-cel- 

 led, two-seeded. Drupe or Berry superior, one or two-seeded. Em- 

 hrijo inverse, and furnished with a perisperm. 



1. P. pankulata. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves opposite, ovate-oblong, entire, smooth. Pani- 

 cle terminal. 



A native of China, and from thence introduced into the Botanic 

 Garden near Calcutta, before 1793. Now, 1802, they have grown to 

 be beautiful small trees, of from fifteen to twenty feet in height, 

 clothed almost to the ground, with numerous, opposite, spreading, 

 and drooping branches, covered with smooth, ash-coloured bark. 



Leaves opposite, petioled, drooping, ovate, and ovate-oblong, sides 

 incurved, entire, leathery, smooth on both sides, above a shining deep 

 green, underneath glaucous, with two or more obscure glands near 

 their base: length four or five inches, breadth from two to three. — Pe- 

 tioles short, recurved, channelled. — Stipules none. — Panicles termi- 

 nal from the exterior axills, ramifications thereof opposite, and 

 smooth. — Flozvers very numerous, rather small, pure white, some- 

 what fragrant Bractes minute, caducous. — Calyx obscurely four- 

 toothed. — Co7'ol one-petalled ; tube short; segments linear, revolute, 

 smooth*— Filaments opposite, inserted into the bottom of the tube 



