368 THYMELACEA. 
la. Portion of inflorescence. 
2. Alabastrum. 
3. Flower, lobes not sufficiently expanded. 
4. Ditto laid open. 
5. Partium situs et alternat. 
6. Stamina front.and back view. 
6a. Ditto after dehiscence. . » 
7. Pollen immersed. 
8. Pistillum long section. 
9. Ovula viewed under pressure. 
10. Flower. 
ll. Ditto long section, a capsula, 6 seed outer tegument, 
c inner ditto, d embryo (longit central line wrong.) 
12. Ditto tnde. a b c d as above. 
13. Embryo. 
Has. Common all over Affghanisthan, generally in old or 
newly cultivated spots or in barren ground, it varies extremely 
in statute. 
Sp. Canar. Racemis pluribus erectis, foliis d ense pubes- 
cent, floribus spicato-racemosis, tubo medio constricto 
dimidiato. Stigmata oblongo cues fructus, dimidio supero 
lapso infero E cditio. 
A genus which it appears to me is intermediate between 
Thymelez and Santalace approaching much more nearly 
the former than the latter, with which it assimilates in the 
tendency to valvular estivation and pendulous ovula. 
To the former in tenacity of bark, habit, stamina, and 
free ova " 
Cabul : ‘gant 10th-12th, 1839. ši 
LePrTONIUM. 
Leptonium oblongifolium, Pl. DXXXVI. 
l. Portion of young inflorescence 
2. Ditto at expansion of central Dina bracte cadiceous» 
