X!,, CAPRIFOLIA'CE/E : LEYCESTE RIA. 



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menr* densely hear/led inside. Style and stamens a little exserted. (Don's 

 Mill.) A dense shrub, bearing a close resemblance to S. racemosus. Bri- 

 tish North America, in the woody country between lat. 54 and 64. Height 

 4- it. to C ft. Introduced ?. Flowers pinkish ; July to September. Fruit 

 white ; October, and remaining on during the winter. 



Distinguished from S. racemosus by the larger, less glaucous, more rigid, and 

 denser foliage, and by the flowers being arranged in dense drooping spikes, 

 longer than in S. racemosus, and by the prominent style and stamens. 



GENUS VI. 



LEYCESTE'R/^ Wall. THE LEYCESTERIA. Lin. Syst. Pentandria 

 Monogynia. 



Identification. Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., 2. p. 181. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 338. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 451. 



Derivation. Named by Dr. Wallich after his friend William Leyces'.er, formerly chief judge of the 

 principal native court under the Bengal Presidency ; " who during a long series of years, and in 

 various parts of Hindoostan, has pursued every branch of horticulture with a munificence, zeal, 

 and success, which abundantly entitle him to that distinction." 



Gen. Char. Calyx with an ovate tube, and an unequal, 5-parted, per- 

 manent limb. Segments unequal, small, linear, glandularly ciliated. Co- 

 rolla funnel-shaped ; having the 

 tube gibbous above the base, 

 and the limb campanulate, and 

 divided into 5 ovate nearly equal 

 lobes. Stamens 5. Stigma capi- 

 tate. Berry roundish, 5- celled. 

 (Don's Mill) 



Leaves simple, opposite, exsti- 

 pulate, sub-evergreen ; ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminated, petiolate, 

 smooth, entire, membranous, 

 glaucous, with an obtuse sub- 

 cordate base. Petioles pilose. 

 Flowers white, with a tinge of 

 purple ; disposed in whorls, 

 forming short leafy drooping 

 racemes, which terminate the 

 branches and branchlets. Brae- 

 teas large, foliaceous, purplish, 

 pubescent and ciliated, lanceo- 

 late, acuminated; generally 6 

 under each whorl of flowers. 

 Berries deep purple, approach- 

 ing to black, as large as a com- 

 mon-sized gooseberry. Shrub 

 large, rambling, with elongated 

 fistular branches, which rise 

 from scaly buds. Native of 

 Nepal. 



This genus appears to be inter- 

 mediate between Capnfoliacea? 

 and /2ubiacea3 ; but from the last 

 it is distinguished by the want of 



1014. Levcest^formcsa. 



