230 cxxxni. SANTALACiLra. (J. I). Hooker.) [Tliesium. 



Nut in., with faint but distinct raised nerves and reticulations. There appear to 

 be several varieties of this plant, approaching T. divaricatum, T. inontamim, and 

 various other Oriental and Siberian species, which should probably all be united, for 

 their characters are very vague. 



Var. ? 1; perianth-lobes much shorter broadly ovate, nut more globose. 

 Oarwhal, on the Niti Pass, alt. 11,5000 ft., Strachey 8f Winterlottom. Tibet, 

 Heyde. A more alpine plant than T. himalense proper, and possibly T. ala- 

 t a u i cum, Kar. & Kir. 



Var. ? 2; stems slender straggling and much branched, the branches divaricate, 

 loaves very much more slender, flowers minute. North-West Himalaya, at Vatar, 

 Brandis; Garwhal, Strachey fy Winterlottom (Thesium 2). 



Var. 3? pachyrhiza; stems very numerous procumbent from (in the Tibetan 

 specimens) a stout woody rootstock as thick as the little finger, leaves slender, fruit 

 (in Sikkim specimens) ellipsoid or depressed globose crowned with linear incurved 

 perianth-lobes. Heights above Kibas, Thomson. Sikkim, at Tungn, alt. 11-12,000 ft., 

 J.&). H. I think this is nothing but a state of T. himalense, with a very old rootstock ; 

 the form of the nut is so variable as to afford no distinctive character, and its nervation 

 is that of the other forms included under himalense. 



2. T. Wig-htianum, Wall. Cat. 4037 ; stems numerous "branching 

 from the base procumbent leafy, leaves very many uniform linear-lanceolate 

 acute tips often bleached, bract and bracteoles hardly longer than the 

 globose reticulated 10-nerved nut which is crowned by the short incurved 

 perianth-lobes. A. DC. Prodr. xivi 647 ; Wight Ic. 1852 (exclude fig. of 

 anthers). T. nilagiricuin, Miguel in 'Analect. Mel. iii. 15, and in Holwnack. 

 PI. Ind. Or. No. 973. 



NILGHIRI HILLS, Wight, &c. Conoor, alt. 7-7500 ft., Clarke. DISTEIB. 

 Abyssinia ? 



Branches straggling, sometimes a foot long. Leaves ^-| by ^ in., almost acu- 

 minate, rather fleshy. Mowers axillary, solitary or 2-nate, minute, sessile. Stamens 

 glabrous. Style short, stigma capitate. Nut ^ in. diam., with prominent longitudinal 

 nerves and impressed reticulations. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



THESIUM sp. ? from Murgulla, in the Salt Range, Vicary. Apparently a tall very 

 slender erect species, with long branches, scattered leaves, and the inflorescence and 

 flowers of the common forms of P. himalense. It is perhaps T. multicaule, Ledeb. 



2. PYRULARIA, Michaux. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, deciduous, membranous. Flowers 

 polygamous, axillary or in terminal cymes, bracteolate. Perianth-tube solid 

 in the male, in the fern, adnate to the ovary ; lobes 5, valvate, hairy on the 

 face. Stamens 5, inserted at the bases of the perianth-lobes with the anthers 

 adhering to the hairs. Disk of scales between the stamens. Ovary inferior ; 

 style columnar, stigma capitate ; ovules 2-3, pendulous from a free short 

 straight basal column. Drupe large, pyriform, obovoid or globose. Seed 

 globose ; embryo short, subterete, near the top of the albumen. Species 2, 

 a Himalayan and N. American. 



P. cdulis, A. DC. Prodr. xiv. 628 ; leaves ovate oblong or elliptic-oblong 

 acuminate young with long hairs beneath, male fl. in hirsutely tomentose 

 panicles, fern, solitary, fruit pyriform. Spheerocarya edulis, Wall. Cat. 

 4033, and in Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 371, and Tent. Fl. Nep. 

 19, t. 10, copied in Wight Ic. t. 255 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 320. S. 

 vestita, Wall. C-t. 7207. 



CEVIKAL A.NU EASTEKN TKOPICAL HIMALAYA; Nepal, If'jillicA. Sikkim, alt. 



