744 LXXII. COKNACEJS. (C. B. Clarke.) [Afarlea. 



narrow calyx-limb. The Japan M. macrophylla and M. heterophylla hardly differ 

 from this. 



VAR. alpina ; leaves not angular, hairy all over beneath and no tufts in the nerve- 

 axils. Sikkim, alt. 6000-9000 ft. ; H.f. $ T. Marlea sp. 2. 



3. CORNUS, Linn. 



Trees and shrubs, glabrous or hairy, hairs often centrally attached. Leaves 

 opposite or alternate, petioled, entire. Floivers small, hermaphrodite, white or 

 yellow, in branched cymes or in involucrate heads. Calyx-tube campanulate or 

 urn-shaped ; limb with 4 short or long teeth. Petals 4, oblong, valvate. Sta- 

 mens 4, anthers oblong. Ovary 2- (very rarely 3-) celled ; style filiform or cylin- 

 dric, stigma capitate sub-2-lobed ; ovule solitary pendulous in each cell. 

 Drupe ovoid, 2-celled, 2-seeded ; endocarp bony. Seeds oblong, compressed, 

 albumen fleshy : cotyledons leafy. DISTRIB. Species 15, in N. temperate regions, 

 and 2 in Burma and Hongkong. 



SECT. I. Thelycrania, Endl. Flowers cymose, without bracts. 



1. C. sang-uinea, Linn. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 1092; a shrub, leaves 

 opposite rarely exceeding 3 in. shortly or not at all acuminate not very glau- 

 cous beneath. DC. Prodr. iv. 272; Brand. For. Fl. 253, 0. australis, 



C. A. Mey. ; Boiss. I, c. 



KASHMIR; alt. 7000 ft. ; Gulmurg, Stewart. DISTRIB. W. and N. Asia, Europe. 



An erect shrub, branchlets leaves beneath and cymes with minute white hairs. 

 Leaves (in Kashmir examples) 1 by If in., ovate from a rounded base, obtuse, beneath 

 paler and with appressed hairs, nerves 4 on each side with spreading crisped hairs 

 beneath ; petiole nearly \ in. Fruit | in. diam., subglobose, minutely hairy. 



2. C. macrophylla, Wall, in Eoxl. FL 2nd. ed. Carey $ Wall. i. 433 ; 

 a tree, leaves opposite or alternate usually exceeding 3 in. distinctly acuminate 

 glaucous beneath. Don Prodr. 141 ; Wall. Cat. 469 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 272 ; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 252, t. 32. 0. brachypoda, C. A. Mey. ; Walp. Ann. ii. 725. 



Throughout the HIMALAYA, alt. 4000-8000 ft., frequent. DISTRIB. China, Japan. 



An erect tree 40 ft., branches horizontal. Leaves 6 by 3| in. (often much larger), 

 ovate ; base rounded or subacute ; secondary nerves 6 on each side, ultimately gla- 

 brous above, beneath with scattered minute appressed hairs ; petiole 1 in. Panicles 

 terminal, erect, often 4-5 in. diam., branches opposite or alternate. Calyx-tube urn- 

 shaped, whitish from the numerous appressed hairs. Fruit -i in. diam., globose. 

 C. alternifolia, Linn, f., a N.American species differs very little, if at all, from this. 



VAR. Stracheyi; panicle densely clothed with spreading fulvous hairs, young 

 leares silky hairy. Kumaon, alt. 7000 ft.. Kathi ; Strachey $ Winterboitom. 



3. C. oblong-a, Wall. inRoxb. FL Ind. ed. Carey $ Wall. i. 432; leave? 

 narrowly oblong narrowed at both ends adult glabrous or minutely hairy be 

 neath. Don Prodr. 140; Wall. Cat. 468; DC. Prodr. v. 272; Brand. For 

 FL 253 ; Kurz For. FL i. 545. 



Prom the JHELUM to NIPAL, alt. 4000-7000 ft.; frequent. BHOTAN Griffith 

 KHASIA: MTS., alt. 4500 ft.; C. B. Clarke. MARTABAN HILLS; alt. 4000-7000 ft, 

 Kurz. 



A tree 20-30 ft. Leaves 5 by \\ in., somewhat coriaceous, nerves much elevate" 

 beneath ; petiole \ in. Pedicels and cyme-branches minutely pubescent ; bracteoles 

 small. Calyx-\A\\>Q campanulate, hardly urn-shaped. Petals almost glabrous. Fruit 

 | by ^ in., ellipsoid, glabrous or nearly so. 



