230 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA,' Baeobofrys^ 



flowered, exceedingly hairy, once or twice bifid, with short ramifi. 

 cations. — Floral leaves few, ovate, or sub-cordate, acuminate, milk- 

 white, pubescent, five-nerved, two inches long, supported by a slen- 

 der, lengthened stalk. — Bractes linear-subulate, hairy ; as are also the 

 remote segments of the calyx— Tube of the corolla very long, hairy, 

 widening upwards, Lacinias ovate, acuminate. — N. VV. 



BAEOBOTRYS* Schreb. gen. N. 318. 



Calyx five-parted. Coro/ tubular. Germ semi-inferior, one-celled, 

 many-seeded, attached to a free, inferior, central receptacle. Berry 

 inferior, many-seeded. 



1. B. indica, R.f 



Shrubby. Leaves alternate, ventricose-oblong, grossly serrate. 

 Racemes axillary, and terminal ; the terminal ones more generally 

 compound. 



A large shrub, a native of Chittagong ; in the botanic garden at 

 Calcutta it flowers in February, March and April, but rarely per- 

 fects its seeds there. 



It appears to differ from Vahls. B. lanceolata, Symb.'wp. 19. 

 t 6. in the leaves being shorter-petioled, and more grossly serrate,- 

 as well as in the inflorescence. 



* The identity of this genus with Forskael's Maesa being established, the latter name 

 claims the right of priority to that of Forster and ought to be prefered. It belongs not ta 

 EriceeE, under which it has hitherto been placed ; bat to Myrsinece, of which it forms a sec- 

 tion, distinguished by the inferior, many-seeded berry. — N. W. 



t This is an exceedingly common shrub in Nipal, where I have found it from Bechiako 

 to the valley. It blossoms almost all the year round, but chiefly from April to October. The 

 white berries ripen in the coarse of three months, and are eaten by the Parbateeyas or hill 

 people. It varies very much in the figure of the leaves from ovate to lanceolate, with an 

 acute or rounded base, and in its racemes, which are simple or compound, short or long; 

 so much so, that I am doubtful whether there are not more than one species concealed under 

 it. The branches have a tendency to climb. The inflorescence is subject to a sort of mon- 

 strosity by which it becomes panicled and very branchy ; in that state the flowers are abor- 

 tive and do not open. — N. W, 



