228 VFRBFISACFM. [ Holmskioldia, 



bifid. Fruit an obovoid drupe, included in the accrescent calyx, 

 divaricately 4-lobed about half-way down, pyrenes 1-4.— Species 4, 

 Himalaya, Africa and Madagascar. 



H. sanguinea, P-etz. Obs. vi, 3t ; Bene, in Jacquem. Yog. Bot. t. 140 ; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 370 ; Ind. Trees 506; F. b. 1. iv, 596 ; Wait E. B. ; Kanji- 

 lal For. Fl. 267 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 544; Collett Fl. Siml. 380; 

 Train Beng. PI. 836. Hastingia coccinea, Smith ; Boscb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 65. 

 Hastingia scandens Roxb. I.e. 66. Yern. Rilhoul (Dehra Dun). 



A nearly glabrous straggling shrub, 10-30 ft. high. Leaves stalked, about 

 3 in. long, ovate, acuminate, toothed or entire, cordate at the base ; 

 petioles about ^ in. long. Flower? crowded in axillary stalked cymes. 

 Calyx scarlet tinged with orange, much enlarged in fruit, tube very 

 short ; limb spreading, about 1 in. in diam. when in fruit, membranous, 

 circular, entire. Corolla coloured like the calyx, f-1 in. long ; tube 

 nearly cylindric, curved ; limb short, obscurely 2-lipped. lobes unequal, 

 lowest the longest. Drupe {-% in., nearly dry. 



Dehra Dun in shady ravines, and eastwards in the Sub-Himalayan tracts, 

 flowers Oct.-Dec. Disteib. Subtropical Himalaya from the Sutlej 

 to Bhutan up to 5,000 ft., extending to Chota Nagpur, Assam and 

 Burma. Often grown in gardens. 



11. CARYOPTERIS, Bunge ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 597. 



Erect or rambling shrubs. Leaves opposite, acuminate, toothed or 

 subentire, minutely punctate with yellow glistening glands. Flowers 

 in small dense many-flowered cymes, axillary or passing into a 

 terminal thyrse, bracts smal!, bracteoles none. Calyx 5-partite ; seg- 

 ments triangular or lanceolate, somewhat accrescent. Corolla St- 

 ripped ; tube short, cylindric, limb spreading, middle lobe of lower lip 

 the longest, crisped or fimbriate. Stamens didynamous, anthers 

 exserted ; cells divaricate confluent. Ovary imperfectly 4-celled, ovules 

 1 in each cell, style filiform, stigma shortly 2-fid. Fruit a small globose 

 capsule, separating into 4 concave valves with incurved margins 

 retaining the seeds. — Species 5, Himalaya, extending to Japan. 



C. Wallichiana, Schauer in DC. Prod, sci, 625 ; Brandis For. Fl. 370 ; 

 Ind. Trees 512 ; F. B. I. iv, 597 ; Watt E. D. ; Kanjilal For. Fl. 268 ; 

 Gamble, Man. Ind. Timb 544 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 381 ; Prain Beng. PI. 836. 

 Yern. Kami (Dehia Dun). 



An erect cr spreading shrub ; bark grey, papery ; branchlets 4-sided, 

 young shoots grey-pubescent or subton.entose. Leaves shortly stalked, 

 about 4 in. long, elliptic or lanceolate, acuminate, toothed or subentire > 

 canescent. Cymes arranged mostly in terminal thyrses 3-5 in. long 



