108 DiAKDRiA M0N0«5YNiA. Chionunthus. 



tender, marked with four ribs from the apex to the base, with four 

 small, imperfect ones between, one-celled, — Seed solitary, conform 

 to the nut. Integument single, thin, and tender. — Perisperm none, 

 JEmhryo inverse. Cotyledons conform to the seed. — Radicle patel- 

 liform superior. 



4. C. ? smilacifoUa. Wall. 



Shrubby, scandent, with four-sided branches. Leaves oval, acu- 

 minate, three-nerved, gloucous. Panicle terminal and :i\illary, ra- 

 mous, brachiate. 



A native of the forests of Chittagons^, wiiere it is called Cliunala- 

 ta. In the Botanic Garden it blossoms in April. 



A rambling ever green ramous shrub, widi ash-coloured separat- 

 ing bark. — Branches long and slender, acutely and exactly four-sid- 

 ed, as well as the other parts of the plant gloucous, smooth. — 

 Leaves opposite, spreading, pelioled, live to seven inches long, 

 about three inches broad, acute at the base, firm and leathery, u|)per 

 surface undulated (bullate) between the principal vessels, nerves and 

 rib much elevated on the pale under surface, and uuitmg a little 

 above the base ; veins a few, reticulated. There are two additional 

 very thin nerves originating at the insertion of the petiole, which to- 

 gether with the preceding larger ones run along the margins of the 

 leaf, forming two arched sub-marginal veins on each side. — Petioles 

 scarcely an inch long, round, channelled above, articulated at the 

 base. — Slipules none. — Panicles short-peduncled, pyramldate, acu- 

 minate, ramous, brachiate, about the size of the larger leaves. — 

 Peduncles four-sided, much sub-divided, the upper ones sub-alter- 

 nate; pedicels pubescent, slightly flattened. — i^rac/es lanceolate, ve- 

 ry small, deciduous, opposite under each subdivision of the pa- 

 nicle. — Flowers small, almost scentless, ternate, sessile, smooth, 

 greenish yellow. — Calyx urceolate, inferior, with four lanceolate 

 acute erect, purple-margined teeth. — Corol infundibuliform, some- 

 what fleshy. Tube twice as long as the calyx, large, obscurely four- 

 sided. Limb four-parted, longer than the tube, spreading ; divisions 



