36 LXXV. EUBIACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Hymenodictyon. 



branous, narrowed into a petiole 1-3 in., nerves 7-10 pair; stipules broad, recurved, 

 usually glandular-serrate. Panicles large, pubescent often drooping ; floral leaves 

 long-petioled, 3-5 in., strongly nerved. Flowers small, white, pedicelled, clustered. 

 Calyx ^ in. Corolla in. Capsules on thick decurved pedicels, | in. long, ellipsoid. 



2. H. flaccidum, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey $ Wall ii. 152 ; 

 Cat. 6116 A. 0.; Tent. FL Nap. t. 22; PI. As. Rar. ii. 81, t. 188; leaves 

 elliptic abruptly acuminate glabrous or puberulous only on the nerves beneath, . 

 racemes spiciform nearly simple, capsules deflexed. Brand. For. Fl. 268. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 3-6000 ft., from Grarwhal to Bhotan frequent. KHASIA 

 MTS., alt. 4-5000 ft. 



A deciduous tree, with ashy bark, young often epiphytic. Leaves 5-8 by 3-6 in., 

 narrowed into the petiole of 1-4 in., nerves 7-8 pair ; stipules broadly obovate 

 oblanceolate or ovate, glandular-serrate. Racemes 4-10 in., pubescent, curved, dense- 

 flowered ; peduncle 1-3 in. ; floral bracts as in H. excelsum, white, convex. Flowers 

 subsessile, white. Calyx $ in. Corolla about twice as long. Capsules \ in. long, 

 ellipsoid. 



3. H. obovatum, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 153 ; 

 Cat. 6116; leaves elliptic or broadly obovate abruptly acuminate glabrous or 

 pubescent beneath, racemes spiciform, capsules erect. W. 8? A. Prodr. 392 ; 

 Wt. Ic. t. 1159; Dais. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 117; Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 219; Brand. 

 For. Fl. 268. 



WESTERN PENINSULA, from Bombay to Travancore, on the Ghauts, frequent. 



In its extreme form, with broadly obovate leaves, from the southern part of the 

 Peninsula, this looks very different from H. flaccidum ; but specimens from the 

 Concan almost unite them ; but both specimens from the Bababoodan hills, with 

 elliptic leaves, and Wight's figured from Coimbatore, with broadly obovate ones, 

 have erect capsules, which I have not observed in any specimen of H. flaccidum. The 

 differences in the length, &c., of the anthers and filaments are probably sexual. 



11. X.UCUZ.ZA, Sweet. 



Shrubs. Leaves petioled; stipules cuspidate, deciduous. Flowers rosy or 

 white, in terminal many-fld. corymbs, odorous ; bracteoles deciduous. Calyx- 

 lobes 5, elongate, unequal, linear-oblong, deciduous. Corolla salver-shaped, 

 tube long ; lobes 5, simple or with 2 calli at the base, imbricate in bud. Sta- 

 mens 5, in the tube of the corolla, filaments very short ; anthers linear. Ovary 

 2-celled ; style slender, stigmas 2 linear included ; ovules many, on 2 revolute 

 longitudinal placentas in each cell. Capsule almost woody, septicidally 2- 

 valved, many-seeded. Seeds minute, imbricate upwards, testa rough winged 

 toothed ; embryo minute in fleshy albumen, DISTRIB. 2 Indian species. 



1. If. gratissima, Siueet Brit. FL Gard. t. 145; leaves oblanceolate 

 lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, nerves usually spreading, inflorescence- 

 pubescent, corolla-lobes without interposed tubercles. Kurz For. FL ii. 71 ; 

 Hook. Bot. Mag. 3946. Cinchona gratissima, Watt, in Roxb. FL Ind., ed.. 

 Carey $ Wall. ii. 154 ; Tent. FL Nap. t. 21 ; Cat. 6117 A. Musssenda Luculia,. 

 Ham. in Don Prodr. 139. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Nipal to Bhotan, not frequent, alt. 4-6000 ft., 

 Watlich, &c.- DISTRIB. Ava (Kurz). 



A spreading shrub, 10-16 ft.; branches lenticellate. Leaves membranous or 

 coriaceous, 6-9 by 2-4 in., very variable in breadth, sometimes pubescent beneath, 

 acuminate, narrowed into the petiole; nerves 9-12 pair. Corymbs sometimes 8 in.. 

 dianv, very many flowered; flowers 3-nate, pink, shortly pedicelled. Calyx-tube ^ in., 



