$&£ PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ltycesteria. 



equal lobes. Filaments exserted. Stigma capitate. Berry crown- 

 ed, five-celled, many-seeded. Seeds smooth, sinning. 



The station of this genus in the system of Linneus is Pentandria 

 monogynia, the section with superior monopetalous flowers, and a 

 five-celled berry. 



In the natural arrangement it belongs to the fifth section of Ru- 

 hiacetE (Juss. in mem. du. mus. vi. 398), connecting it with the fa- 

 mily of Caprifoliacea. 



it is a beautiful large shrub with rambling elongated fistulous bran= 

 ches, opposite, glaucous leaves, and nodding, short racemes, furnish- 

 ed with coloured, foliaceous bractes. I have great satisfaction in de- 

 dicating it to my highly esteemed friend William Leycester, Esq. chief 

 judge of the principal native court under the Bengal presidency, who 

 during a long series of years and in various distant parts of Hindoc- 

 st'han has pursued every branch of horticulture with a munificence, 

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

 1. L formosa, Wall. 



This charming shrub grows wild on the highest mountains sur- 

 rounding the valley of Nipal, blossoming from April to October. 

 Its fruit ripens at the end of the rains aud during the commencement 

 of winter. I have also had it from much more northerly situations to. 

 wards Gosain-Than. According to my friend Dr Govan it is found 

 in abundance at an elevation seldom less than 8,000 feet above the 

 plains, among the pine and oak forests of Bishtthwr, as at Huttoo, 

 and at Desoo in the Thakooraee of Kfoonthul, blossoming from June 

 till August, and called by the natives Nulkuroo. 

 Parbwteeya, Oodooa- 



Stem shrubby, erect, leaning at the apex, from ten to twelve feet 

 high, from an inch to an inch and a third in diameter, cylindric, hol- 

 low, intercepted by distant partitions, covered with smooth, pale 

 brown, shining, rather scabrous bark; wood white, close grained. 

 Branches numerous, opposite, spreading, elongated, slender, weak, 

 rambling over adjoining shrubs, or decumbent, fistulous, cylindric, 

 smooth ; when dried they appear contracted and joined at their divisions 

 and at the insertion of the leaves; their base is surrounded by several 



