403 TETRANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Garduerta, 



coming reddish as they grow old, beautifully contrasting with the shin- 

 ing dark green leaves, which are not unlike those of I. Bandhuca. 

 The colour of the Hower resembles that of the pink variety of I- cu- 

 neifolia; it is paler than the variety of I. stricta, which Roxburgh 

 formerly used, to call 1. imarnata. — N. W. 



GARDlSlERIA. 



Calyx inferior. Corol flat. Stamina partly cohering into a tube. 

 JBeny two- celled. Seeds solitary, cup-ihaped. 



1. G.ovjta. Wall. 



A native of the mountains in the district of Silhet in Bengal, and 

 of Nepala. It blossoms in the hot and rainy season, and ripens its 

 fruit in the cold. 



Khasee name, Iliddi. In Nepalcr, Oocha-Soa. 



A strong climbing smooth shrub, with long slender round branch- 

 es ;• the new twigs liave a green bark and are obscurely four-sided. 

 — Leaves oppouile, approximated, spreading, petioled, ovate or lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, pointed at the base, entire, smooth on both sides, 

 very dark and shining above, pale underneath, with elevated rib and 

 transversal sub-opposite verv line nerves, which unite with each other 

 and with the reticulated veins in sub-marginal arches. They measure 

 from three to four inches, and are generally twice as long as their 

 interstices. — Petiolsround, channeled above, slightly curved, half an 

 inch long, widening at the base and surrounding the branch with 

 an elevated, fleshy, narrow, erect margin, concealing in their axils a 

 series of short subulate fleshy withering cilia. — Stipules no others 

 than the appendices just described. — Corymbs axillary, opposite, 

 equalling or somewhat exceeding the leaves in length, slender, with 

 one or two pairs of small lanceolar leaves under their primary divi- 

 sions. Feduncles slender, opposite, an inch or an inch and a half 

 long, three-flowered, pedicels clavate with two lanceolate minute 

 bractes at the base, and generally a pair above their middle; the in- 

 termediate ones shorter. — Calyx very small, cup-shaped, persistent, 



