226 DR. HOOKER'S MISSION TO INDIA. 
The — in = pen I heres seen from Oran, are nearly circular, 
subcordate, ie apex, and nearly 13 inch in dia- 
meter, on a rülendée cinalicalats dies half an inch long. The specimens 
from Spain have smaller and more ovate leaves. The berry is small, 
barely 23 lines in diameter, with only a single seed perfected in each 
cell: it is enclosed in the campanular calyx with five expanding lobes, 
a wide open mouth, and of double its length and diameter: the seed is 
compressed reniform, about two lines in diameter. The lobes of the 
persistent calyx are rounded, coriaceous, and with the setiform apical 
termination often withered. 
2. Withania aristata, Pauq. (loc. cit)—Atropa aristata, Poir. Phy- 
salis aristata, Ait: fruticosa, ramis compressis, angulatis; foliis oblongis 
vel rotundatis, subcordatis, apice obtusis, retusis, utrinque glabres- 
centibus, margine petioloque canaliculato ciliatis ; floribus solitariis 
sub-extra-axillaribus, pedunculis lanatis.-—Insul. Canariensibus. 
The berry in this species is globular, about half an inch in diameter, 
encloses many seeds, and is tightly invested by the persistent calyx of 
equallength, which is almost entire, or at least, with five very short 
teeth, terminated by five setiform threads nearly equal in length to the 
calycine tube. The hairs seen in this and the foregoing species, are 
brachiate as in Physalis and Hypnoticum. 
Extracts from the Private Letters of Dr. J. D. Hooker, written during 
a Botanical Mission to INDIA. 
(Continued from p. 175.) 
CALCUTTA TO DARJEELING IN SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
My English friends would be amused to see me sometimes, when the 
boat has stuck in the middle of the Ganges, a not unusual occurrence 
if the wind blows hard and foul. The current, which runs three or 
four miles an hour, does- not suffice to enable our floating cottage to 
be either tracked or pulled against such a wind. The banks are gene- 
rally ten to fifteen feet above the level of the river; on one side they 
are sloping and sandy, on the other, precipitous and formed of hard 
alluvium. Withered grass abounds on both banks, Wheat, Dhal 
(Cajanus) and Gram (Cicer arietinum), Carthamus, Vetches, and Rice- 
