Pifr'ostria, tetrandria monogtni.C 40f 



tion oftlie Ejnbryo are perfectly like those of Vsi/chotria, Coffin and. 

 Ixora. It has the excavation of the seed in common with Favetta 

 iudicu* and several species of Ixora; the ventral aperture is how- 

 ever much larger here and circumscribed by a somewhat widened 

 margin. — Tire younger parts of the plant as well as the dark-colour- 

 ed shjuing leaves contain a yellowish juice, from which probably the 

 JSilhet name is derived ; indeed they are not unlike those of Giittijjera:, 



My jNepala specimens differ m some degree from the others ; 

 their leaves are smaller, lanceolate and more narrow ; the segments of 

 the corolla laHceolate an,d more villous, tho beiries large and cro'.vn- 

 ed wnh the persistent long style; stigma bitld. 



1 have dedicated this new genus to the Hon. Edward Gardner, 

 hate resident at the court of the Raja of Nepali/, by whose indefa- 

 tioable exertions and liberality the BotaMic Garden at Calcutta has 

 beta enriched by the most splendid additions of growing plants, seeds, 

 and specimens of the interesting and hitherto mostly unknown vege- 

 table productions of that country, of which ample and frequent co5-i 

 lections have been transmitted to Great lirUain. — N. W. 



PYROSTRIA. Juss. Gen. ed. Ust. 2C9. 

 Co/yr four-toothed. Carol with cylindric tube, and four-cleft 

 border. Drupe inferior, with as far as eight, one-seeded nuts. 



1. P. hexaspepma. R- 



Leates opposite, short-petioled, oblong, acute, entire. Corpnbi 

 axillary, and also withm the cuspidate, hairy, stipules, dichotomons. 

 Drupe six-seeded. 



A native of the Island of Honlmoa. 



Tender-shoots clothed with brown hairs.— Lmres opposite, ap- 

 proximate, short-petioled, oblong, acute, entire, a little hairy ; froia 

 three to four inches \ou^.-Stipu/es within the leaves cuspidate, Im- 

 rs.~Vedtiiicks opposite; with the stipules many timeslojiger thaa 

 the petioles, each ending in a small twice dichotomous, corymbiforiP* 

 • GaertD. Carp. i. p. 113. t..23. 



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