152 DIAKDRIA MONOGYNlA. XigUsffum, 



Branches round, opposite, ash-coloured, dotted with callous spots; 

 all the younger parts covered with abundance of soft hairs — Leaves 

 opposite, spreading, on very short channelled petioles, varying con- 

 siderably in size and figure, mostly ovate with a rounded base, some- 

 times oblong orlanceo'ar, generally tapering into along apex, termina- 

 ted by a short cylindric point ; from one to two, or even three inches 

 long, of a firm texture, shining above, densely villous underneatb,wheii 

 old entirely smooth, with very fine remote nerves communicating with 

 each other in reticulated arches near the margin. — Panicle somewhat 

 contracted, ovate, from four to six inches long, sessile, consisting of 

 pretty crowded racemes, the uppermost very short and alternate. — 

 Peduncles round, villous, with a deciduous small lanceolate bract un- 

 der each division. — Flouers short-pedicelled, smooth, disposed in 

 small bunches. — Calif x truncate, with four hardly discernible teeth. 

 —Corol ; tube equalling the calyx ; segments of the limb spreading, lan- 

 ceolate, acute, twice as long as the tube. — Stamina almost as long as 

 the corol ;Jilaments inserted within its mouth between two opposite 

 fissures ; anthers oblong, bursting lengthways on both sides. — Pistil 

 shorter than the stamina, sinooj^h ; ovarium roundish, two-celled, with 

 two pendulous ovulain each cell ; st^Ie short; stigma fleshy, oblong, 

 acute. — Berries oval, dark, blue with a beautiful bloom on them, ra- 

 ther srhaller than those of the common Pn'tY^; pulp brown. — Seeds 

 one or two; cotyledons broad-ovate. In other respects like those of 

 Ligustrum. Gart. Carp, ii- 72. tab. 92. 



Obs. Tliis species differs from Li. japonicwji, Thunb. and lucidum, 

 Ait. in the figure and villosity of its leaves and the contracted shape 

 of its panicle. It may perhaps be found the same as L. sinense, Lour. 

 especially if the racemes, which in the flora cochinchinensis are at- 

 tributed to that tree, are considered as panicles, which indeed has 

 been done by the illustrious author of that article in Rees's New Cy- 

 clopaedia. 



I possess specimens taken from old branches, with more expanded 

 panicles, which together with the leaves are perfectly smooth.— jN . W. 



P ERBENA. See Didi/namia Angiospermia. 



