tZ4 pentandria monogynia. Baeobotrys. 



slender, rounded, channelled, villous, an incli and half long. — Racemes 

 axillary, pubescent, oblong, scarcely equalling the petiol, having a 

 few alternate branches at the base so as to give them the appearance 

 of being fascicled, sessile, erect. — Flowers close to each other, 

 smooth, white, nodding, on very short pedicels, each of which has 

 a lanceolate bracte at the base, and two minute alternate ones a 

 little above it. Calyx persistent, semi-inferior, ovate, marked as 

 Well as the corolla and bractes with the peculiar elevated, glandular, 

 brcadish, unequal, brown lines, which are observable in all the spe- 

 cies of this genus, and which Mr. Brown describes as belonging to 

 most members of the family of Myrsinea ; lacinia ovate, acute, mem- 

 brane-margined, ciliate. — Tube of the corolla ventricose, twice as 

 long as the calyx ; lacinia rounded, ciliate, with radiating veins. Sta- 

 mina a little shorter than the corolla. — Ovarium round, nearly 

 smooth, one-celled, with numerous ovula attached to the free, erect, 

 pedicelled placenta. Style thickish, short. Stigma divided into three 

 subulate lobes. — Berry inferior, round, smooth, white, of the size 

 of a pepper corn, crowned with the five laciniae of the calyx, which 

 connive towards the persistent base of the style. Seeds exceedingly 

 numerous and minute, cuneiform, immersed in the faveolate sur- 

 face of the fleshy globular placenta. — N. W. 



7. B. (Maesa) macrophylla, Wall. 



Arboreous, densely villous. Leaves ovate, sub-cordate, very 

 soft on both sides, obtuse or acute, strongly dentate. Panicles ax* 

 illary and terminal. 



This fine species grows in various parts of Nipal. I have found 

 it at Hetounra and on Chundra-giri : ; it has likewise been brought to 

 me from Noakote and from MuubliMijun at the foot of Sheopore, to 

 the N.— The time of blossoming differs of course considerably accor- 

 ding to these different stations, from April to July ; the fruit ripenst 

 in September — December. 



A tree of from eight to ten feet in height, ramous and spreading. 

 Branches round, villous, chiefly while young, and then feiruginoui. 



