198 LXXT. EUSTACES. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Ramiltonia. 



An undershrub 4-12 ft. high, with spreading branches. Leaves rather rigid, 6-12 

 by 2-4 in., elliptic-lanceolate or ovate, acute, glabrous or pubescent, base aciute ; 

 petiole ^-1 in. Flowers in subglobose heads, most copiously produced in terminal 

 trichotomous pubescent panicles, fragrant, white or blue, sessile or pedicelled ; bracts 

 subulate. Calyx-teeth very variable in shape, longer than the ovary, glabrous 

 pubescent or hairy, with often interposed gland-tipped processes. Corolla-tube | in., 

 pubescent or woolly. Stamens and style more or less exserted according to sex. 

 Capsule |- in., ellipsoid. Bhotan specimens have very short broad calyx-teeth. 



85. LEPTODERlttIS, Wall. 



Shrubs, foetid when bruised; branches terete. Leaves opposite, the pairs 

 often fascicled ; stipules small, acute or pungent, persistent. Flowers bracteate 

 aud bracteolate, 3-nate or in terminal fascicles, white or purplish, subsessile ; 

 "bracteofes connate into a 2-cuspidate scarious tube. Calyx-tube obconic, lobes 

 5 (4-6), coriaceous, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped, tube slender, hairy 

 within ; throat glabrous ; lobes 5 (4-6), valvate with inflexed edges. Stamens 

 5 (4-6), inserted in the corolla-throat, filaments short ; anthers linear-oblong, 

 $ exserted, $ included effete. Ovary 5-celled ; style filiform, arms 5 linear 

 $ exserted ; ovules 1, basal, erect in each cell. Capsule cylindric or ovoid, 

 5-valved to the base, apex deciduous between the hardened persistent calyx- 

 teeth, valves separating from 3-5 erect free fibrous pyrenes, the fibres simple 

 or reticulating, loose or appressed. Seeds erect, testa membranous ; cotyledons 

 orbicular, radicle short slender inferior. DISTKIB. Species 5 or 6, a Chinese, 

 and the following. 



1. Zi. lanceolata, Wall in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey Sf Wall. ii. 191 ; 

 Cat. 6241 ; leaves ovate elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate puberulous or hispid above, 

 stipules small acute appressed, capsule cylindric. DC. Prodr. iv. 462 ; Dene, 

 in Jacq. Voy. Bot. t. 90 ; Brand. For. Fl. 279. Hamiltonia suaveolens, Don 

 Prodr. 137, 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 4-10,500 ft., from Kashmir to Bhotan, Wallich, &c. 

 A rigid erect shrub ; .branches glabrous, scabrid or hispid. Leaves very variable, 

 -4 by |-1 in., more or less hairy beneath, rigid or rather membranous; petiole 

 -% in. Flowers subcapitate, terminal, and on short lateral branches, white, 4-6- 

 inerous. Bracts tubular, glabrous or puberulous. Calyx-teeth triangular, acute. 

 Corolla % in. long, glabrous or hairy. Capsule -^ in., cylindric, truncate, crowned 

 by the persistent ciliate calyx-teeth ; fibrous utricle enclosing the seed long and very 

 lax. 



2. Xi. virgpata, Edgew. in Aitchison Cat. Punjab. PI. 70 ; leaves very 

 small linear or oblong acute scabrid above, stipules with long pungent recurved 

 points, capsule cylindric. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, alt. 4-7000 ft. from Murree, Falconer to Kulu, Edgeworth. 

 SALT EANGB/ Fleming. 



A slender rigid excessively branched shrub ; branches very slender, erect or 

 divaricate, white with spreading pubescence. Leaves \-% by - in., fascicled, 

 straight or somewhat falcate, margins flat or recurved, pale beneath, nerves obscure ; 

 stipules triangular with rigid long pungent points and thickened margins, white. 

 Bracts often equalling the capsule. Calyx glabrous, teeth lanceolate ciliate, much 

 longer than in L. lanceolata. Corolla % in. long, pubescent, purplish. Capsule in., 

 subcylindric. Seed with a few free fibres attached to the integument. 



3. Xi. Griffith!!, Hook. /. ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate acute narrowed into 

 the petiole smooth or scabrid above, stipules small appressed, capsule ovoid 

 twice as long as the bracteoles and as the lanceolate glabrous calyx-teeth...,- 



