LigustrumJ] xcir. OLE ACE JE. (0. B. Clarke.) 617 



SIKKIM ; Lachen and Lachoong, J. D. H. ; Kulhait, alt. 5000 ft., Clarke. BHOTAN ; 

 alt. 5500 ft , Griffith. KHASIA, alt. 3-5000 ft, common, Griffith, H.f. $ T., &c. 



A small tree; sometimes 40 ft. in Sikkim. Leaves 3 by f in., usually obtuse or 

 rounded at the base, coriaceous ; nerves slender or distinct ; petiole in. Panicles 

 1-5 in. ; bracts or linear, caducous; bracteoles minute. Corolla ^ in., wider than 

 in L. robustivm. This previous to Decaisne's memoir, was confounded with L. robus- 

 tum which (except as to the fruit) it greatly resembles. In flower it differs from the 

 Bengal typical L. robustum in the more obtusely-based leaves, the sessile crowded 

 flowers, and the broader corolla. It only differs from L. spicatum in the absence of 

 persistent leaflike bracts in the panicle. Simons' specimen is named L. compactum by 

 Decaisne, but it ha& a pubescent panicle, and the leaves do not show the prominent 

 numerous nerves characteristic of L. compactum. 



VAB. macrocarpa ; berry A in. diam. and upwards. Khasia ; Nunklao, alt. 4000 

 ft., Clarice. 



10. Ii. nepalense, Watt. Cat. 2830, and in Roxb. Fl Ind. ed. Carey fy 

 Watt. i. 150, and PI. As. Ear. iii. 44, t. 270 ; branches lenticellate, leaves ellip- 

 tic-lanceolate, panicles large pubescent, bracts leaflike coriaceous persistent, 

 flowers clustered sessile, corolla- tube as long as the calyx, drupe f in. diam. 

 DC. Prodr. viii. 294, arc/, var. j3 ; Dene, in Nouv. Arch. Mus. 2, ii. 26. L. 

 spicatum, Ham. ; Don Prodr. 107 ; Loud. Arb. Brit. 630, t. 1220. L. bracteo- 

 latum, Don Prodr. 1Q7 ; DC. /. c. ; Brand. For. Fl 310 ; Dene. I c. 34. L. 

 Wallichii, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 315 ; Dene. 1. c. 29. L. parviflorum, Visiani ; 

 Dene, in Nouv. Arch. Mus. 2, ii. 26. L. kumaonense, Dene. I.e. 28. Olea 

 grandiflora, Wall. Cat. 2820. Visiania grandiflora, DC. L c. 289. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 4-7000 ft. ; Gurwhal to Nipal, frequent. 



Only separable from L. confusum by the bracts interspersed among the panicle 

 branches being petiolate, often l by ^ in., coriaceous, persistent. .The type examples 

 of L. nepalense and grandiflorum in herb. Wallich, and of //. kumaonense in herb. 

 Strach. & Winterb. all exhibit these bracts, which are not seen in the Khasian L. 

 confusum. L. nepalense, ft var. glabra (Bot. Mag. t. 2921), is L. lucidum, and re- 

 ceived from the Calcutta garden, it is not an Indian plant. 



VAB. vestita, Wall. Cat. 6304 (sp.) ; leaves villous beneath. DC. Prodr. viii. 294. 

 Nipal. 



11. L. IVIyrsinites, Dene, in Nouv. Arch. Mus. 2, ii. 33 ; leaves small 

 elliptic, racemes small few-flowered nearly glabrous, drupe scarcely in. diam. 

 L. Uva-ursi, Dene. I. c. 34. Ligustrum n. 10, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



KHASIA, alt. 4-5000 ft. ; Mairung, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3683) ; Moflong, 

 Moleem and Upper Kalapani, J. D. H., Simons. 



A small ramous shrub ; branchlets hairy. Leaves - by \-\ in., glabrous, 

 coriaceous ; nerves obscure ; petiole in. Panicles (nearly always reduced to 

 racemes) 3-10-flowered, less than in. diam. in flower; rhachis verrucose hardly 

 hairy; flowers sessile ; in the penultimate axils are often added solitary short -pedi- 

 celled flowers (or raceme with foliaceous bracts in its lower part). Corolla in., tube 

 a little longer than the calyx. 



10. MYXOFVRUBI, Blume. 



Large scandent shrubs ; branches 4-angular. Leaves opposite, large, coria- 

 ceous, 3-nerved, entire or toothed. Flowers small, yellowish, numerous in 

 axiDary and terminal trichotomous panicles ; bracts minute or 0. Calyx acutely 

 4-lobed. Corolla-tube longer than the calyx ; lobes 4, concave, oblong or 

 spathulate, induplicate-valvate in bud. Stamens 2, on the corolla-tube, fila- 

 ments short ; anthers ovate. Ovary 2-celled ; style hardly any, stigma 2-lobed; 

 ovules 1-2 in each cell, attached near the base at the inner angle (anatropal,/cte 



