142 PENTANDRIA MOKOGYNll. Roildehtict. 



with thick cinnamon-coloured bark, which cracks transversely. The 

 wood is brownish, close-grained ; it seems to be well suited for furni- 

 ture. Branches quadrangular, with rounded corners, densely clothed 

 with ash-grey, very soft tomentum, as are also the lea.es and pa- 

 nicles ,• growing smoother by age.— Leaves lanceolate, tapering, sub- 

 acuminate, the base acute; from four to six inches long, smoother 

 above ; underneath glaucous from copious tomentum, with elevated 

 rib and parallel oblique nerves. — Petiols from one to two inches 

 long, round. — Stipules large, oblong, the lower half adpressed, the 

 upper recurved, foliaceous, reniform, emarginate, deciduous.— Pani- 

 cle ovate, very large, terminal, supra-decompound, with divaricate 

 ramifications, tomentose, glaucous. — Bractes oblong, caducous, 

 sometimes lobed or sub-hastate at the base ; the lowermost very lon°-, 

 linear. — Flowers small, white, fragrant, sub-sessile, densely fascicled, 

 forming oblong, opposite racemes which are from one to two inches 

 long. — Calycine lacinize very small, triangular.— Tube of the corolla 

 smooth, very short; limb divided into five lanceolate, spreading laci- 

 nisej throat with five minute tubercles. — Anthers exserled above the 

 throat.— Capsule veiy small, globular, villous, with numerous minute 

 seeds. 



10. R. coriacea, Wall. 



Arboreous, smooth on all parts. Leaves oblong-lanceolate acu- 

 minate, tapering at the base, much longer than the interstices, co- 

 riaceous, lucid. Stipules adpressed, with ligulate vertical apex. Pa- 

 nicle terminal, dense. Mowers opposite very numerous. 



A native of the valley of iSipal, where it is common in the forest 

 at Toka and other places. I have also had it from Noakote. Flow- 

 ering time the months of March and May. 



Parbwteeya* name, Kongeea. 



Newar, Jul si. 



* This word however universally applied bv the Nepalese to the people who inha- 

 bit the higher mountains, should probably be either Bhota or Nipal. It means simply 

 the language of mountaineers, and is equally applicable to all the Inhabitants of 

 Kipalj asd o'f all other mountains iu the world.. Ed. 



