Eamiltonia. pentandria monogyma. 223 



Discovered at Shreenagur by Kamioop, a brahinun who is col* 

 lee ting seeds and specimens for the Hun- Company's botanic garden 

 at Calcutta. 



Brunches round, ash-coloured, villous, dotted ; new shoots as well 

 as the tender parts thickly covered with pale furruginous or white, 

 stellate tonieiiium.— Leaves opposite, broad-ovate, obtuse; base 

 rounded, cordate, sometimes only retuse, four inches long, villous 

 on both sides, becoming smoother by age, nerved when dry. — Pe- 

 tiols round, an inch long. — Racemes axillary, sub-sessile, villous.-— 

 Pedicels short. — Corolla an inch long, tubular, clavate, villous ; 

 mouth divided into lour, short, lanceolate lacinia. Stamina four.— 

 N. W. 



EAMILTONIA, Roxh.* 



Calyx five-cleft. Carol infundibuiiform. Germ one-celled, five- 

 seeded ; attachment of the ovula inferior. Stigma five-cleft. Capsules 

 inferior, one-celled, five-valved. Seeds five, lattice-aiilled. Embryo 

 erect, and furnished with a perisperm. 



1. H. suaveolens, R.f 



Shrubby. Leave* opposite, broad-Ianceoiar. Flowers in termi- 

 nal, umbeliform beads. 



This charming, fragrant-flowered shrub was found wild on the 

 Rajmuhal hills by Mr. William Roxburgh, jun. and by him intro- 

 duced into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where it blossoms dur- 

 ing the cold season. It is named after Mr. William Hamilton of 

 the Wood-lands near Philadelphia in North America, an eminent 

 botanist, and the first who was at the expense of erecting a con- 



* This genus is called Spermadiclyon, iu Roxbnsh's Corom. iii. 32, in consequence of 

 the name Hamihouia having been given by Wildenow, spec, plant, vii. 114, (wiuieut any 

 good reason in my opinion; to Michaox's Pyrularia. — N. "vY. 



t Sptrmedklyor. suaveolens, Brows, 1. cit. et Edwards's bot. regist. ir. 348. — N. W. 



