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and ferruginous. Branches angular. Leaves geminate, ovate, elliptic 

 acute, repand-lobed, attenuate at the base, villous underneath. Fruit- 

 bearing calyx erect, very large, coriaceous, oblong, ten-nerved, ten- 

 keeled, with rounded lobes. 



A native of Gosain-Than in the Himalaya ; my people brought 

 fiuit. bearing specimens to me in August and October. 



Branches strong, angular, slightly ferruginous and villous, dicho- 

 tcmous, while young densely covered with ferruginous, mealy, sepa- 

 rable tomentum. Leaves elliptic-ovate, geminate, one of the pair 

 from six to seven inches long, the other twice or thrice smaller ; acute, 

 unequally sinuate or sub-entire ; sides pretty equal, as is also the at- 

 lemiHte, acute base ; smoothish above, densely villous underneath, 

 especially while young; reticulate with strongly marked rib and 

 neives. Petiol round, villous, partially margined from the sub- 

 decurrent base of the leaf, the larger two inches, the smaller half aa 

 inch long. — Peduncles interaxillary, ascending or spreading, a little 

 more than an inch long, round, sometimes club-shaped, sparingly vil- 

 lous. — Capsule erect, smooth, globular, as large as a good sized cherry, 

 two-celled, many-seeded, sessile, and concealed within the enlarged 

 calyx, which is oblong. ovate, ventricose, two inches long, coriaci- 

 ous, arid, villous, strongly marked with ten large, prominent ribs, 

 rugose and reticulate; its mouth rather narrower, divided into five 

 broad, obtuse, rounded lobes — Seeds exceedingly copious, reniform, 

 as large as those of the Mandragora, which they also resemble ia 

 fitmcmre ; brownish black, minutely punctulate, attached to a large 

 ecrobiculate, rounded receptacle. 



Obs 1 have only seen fruit-bearing, herbaceous branches of trii9 

 singular species; the root is probably perennial. The recent plant 

 is somewhat viscous and possesses a peculiarly nauseous smell, not 

 very different from that of fresh tobacco leaves.— A II the tender parts 

 are densely clothed with mealy, ferruginous, loose tomentum.— N. W. 



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