26 DIDYNAMIA OYMNOSPERMIA. PraSlUm. 



Other, and to the calyx, the h)ng-, woolly soginonts of which 

 readily carry them Avith the wind to a great distance. 



2. C. oppositrfolia. 



Leaves opposite, broad lanceolar, crenate. 



A native of Nepal, from thence Dr. Buchanan sent the 

 seeds to this garden, where the plants thrive well, and blos- 

 som in February. 



Trunk short, soon dividing into many nearly erect branch- 

 es, covered with ash coloured bark, while young four-sided, 

 with rounded angles, and very downy. Leaves opposite, 

 decussate, short- petioled, broad-lanceolar, crenate, very soft 

 and downy, and considerably wrinkled. Stipules none. 

 Panicles terminal, Avith the primary branches opposite, sup- 

 porting many cylindric, amentaceous spikes of nearly the 

 same length. Calijx; common perianth many- (from four to 

 twelve) flowered, many- (from eight to ten) leaved, imbri- 

 cated, permanent. Proper perianth five-cleft; divisions 

 filiform, hairy, the length of the tube of florets, their apices 

 coloured, and less hairy. Corol ; universal equal ; proper 

 one-petalled. Tube gibbous, border four-parted, the middle 

 lobe of the lower division large, and nearly round, the upper 

 broader and emarginate, unec|ual, remote. Filament, scarce- 

 ly any. ^^nlhers minute, hid in the mouth of the corol. 

 Germ four-lobed. Style twice the length of the corol. Stiff- 

 ma two-cleft, acute. Pericarp none. Seeds four, lodged 

 in the bottom of the enlarged hairy, proper perianth. Recep- 

 tacle naked, flat. 



PRASIUM. Schreh. gen. N. 992. 



Gen. Char. Berries four, one-seeded. Embryo erect, 

 without perisperm. 



P. melissiJ'oliKm. R. 



Perennial, scandent. Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate, 

 serrate. Flowers sessile, sub-verticelled. 



