Leycesteria. peNTANDRIA MONOgynia. 1 1SI 



with a short acumen, about four fingers broad, somewhat narrow- 

 er towards the base, and there uniting with the opposite one and 

 surrounding the stem with a broad flat lamina ; margins rather un- 

 even, a little waved; both sides very soft and hairy; nerves and rib 

 elevated on the under reticulate surface. The lowermost pair or two 



are small, rather remote, oblong and not connate Flowers I have 



not seen. — Berries oval, the size of a very small gooseberry, crowned 

 by a small calyx, which is divided into five ovate, very short lobes; 

 yellow, hairy, three-furrowed, one-celled, three-seeded. Pulp soft, 

 scanty. — Seeds rather large, oblong, somewhat three-sided, smooth, 

 greenish-black; the back convex, with two broadish, longitudinal 

 furrows which vanish downwards ; inner two sides flat, separated by 

 a rounded angle ; upper end a little narrower, and marked on the in- 

 side with a small excavated umbilicus. Outer integument thick, 

 bony, blackish; the inner one between membranous and fungous, 

 yellowish, thin, closely applied with its inner polished surface to the 

 perisperm, marked along the margins of the latter with a broadish 

 fascicle of vessels, which descends from the umbilicus and com- 

 pletely surrounds the seed.— Perisperm conform to the seed in its 

 general figure, but much more flat, scarcely a line in diameter, the 

 back scarcely convex, the inner side divided by an obscure line ; 

 semi-transparent, pale-yellow, friable ; its vertex marked with a la- 

 teral umbilicus, its margins rounded, obscurely furrowed from the 

 pressure of the umbilical chord ; its substance is divided into two 

 parts by an exceedingly narrow cavity, parallel to its sides, extend- 

 ing to within a line of the periphery, filled with a mucilaginous pulp; 

 this structure gives the peiisperm the appearance of two flat coty- 

 ledons, on its being divided horizontally. Embryo very short, thick, 

 pendulous from the apex of the cavity of the perisperm, milk-white ; 

 cotyledons oval, obtuse; radkula superior, couical. — N, W. 

 Additional Genera by N. TV. 

 LEYCESTERIA. Wall. 

 Calyx above, unequally five- parted. Corolla infundibuliform, 

 gibbous above the base of the tube ; border divided into five sub- 



