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highly coloured, of a dark shining red, the nerves 

 and veins of the leaves, young branches and leaves 

 coloured in the same manner. Flowers very small, 

 produced on terminal compound diffuse panicles. 

 Peduncles long, very slender, filiform, hairy, 

 stained. Calyx beneath, five cleft, divisions equal, 

 ovate pointed. Corol, five petals, equal, ovate, 

 obtuse, filaments five, very short. Germ, reniform, 

 compressed. Style from the depressed margin of 

 the germ, very short. Stigma simple, a little de- 

 pressed. Pericarp, resembles a legume, about the 

 size of the seed of Erv inn-lens, reniform, con- 

 taining one seed of the same shape, attached to 

 the suture of the valve. 



Vitis. — Leaves agree pretty well with the description 

 of t'. hid'ica, except that in this plant, they are ex- 

 tremely hoary on both sides, white beneath, brown 

 above, five nerved. The petioles, peduncles, and 

 cirri, are also very hoary. Grows in dry situations 

 in the forests about Dosah and Belkate, now in 

 flower. 



Gardenia UUginosa 1. Roxburgh. — Grows to a large 

 tree in the forests on the borders of the mountain, 

 between Hurdwar and Coadwara. The flowers 

 hexandrous, very large, coriaceous, of a cream 

 white. It is found also in the lower parts of Ro~ 

 hilcund near Futtehgurhy flovsTrs in the month of 

 June. 



Gardenia 2. — A small tree in the vicinity of Hurdxmr, 

 thorny, branches opposite and thorny, thorns op- 

 posite, diverging, rigid streight, one terminating 

 the branch, an inch or more in length. Leaves 

 obvate, attenuated at the base, half sessile, bundled, 

 three or more entire. Flowers mostly hexandrous ; 

 of a yellowish white mixed with green, scattered 

 about the extremities of the branches, sessile; du- 

 ring inflorescence, few leaves on the tree, and those 

 of the preceding year, ripe fruit remaining, about 

 the bigness of a middle sized orange, orbicular ; 

 resembles more a drupe than berry. Seeds nunie- 

 VoL. VL A a runs. 



