572 FENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA". ArdlSltL, 



terminal, solitary, very large ; composed of several large, compound 

 and decompound branches; all of which with their sub-divisious are 

 smooth, and of a pretty deep, blight red colour. — Bractes lanceolate. 

 '-Calyx, corol, &c. as in the family. — Berries somewhat oblate, 

 smooth, succulent, red, size of a pea — Seed solitary, of a deep yellow 

 in the base. — Perisperm conform to the seed, very hard, some small 

 rust-coloured specks on the surface, which in some places penetrate 

 a little. — Embryo transverse, serpentine, Sec. asiu Gaertuei's Anguil' 

 iaria, 1. S7£. t. 77. 



Ohs. by N. W. 



I have found this species, or one very much like it on Sheopore in 

 Nipal, flowering in A^nl and May. My people have also brought it 

 to me from Noakote. 



It grows to the size of a small tree, ten feet high. Branches ash. 

 coloured; young shoots and tender leaves covered on both sides 

 with dense, scaly, purple, loose tomentum ; afterwards they become 

 perfectly smooth. — Leaves very numerous and close to each other 

 towards the apex of the biaucbes, oblong-lanceolate, from five to 

 six inches long, acuminate at both ends, very obscurely crenulate, 

 coriaceous; sinning above, glaucous underneath, with elevated rib ; 

 while fresh veinless.— Fetiol very short.— Panicle terminal, of a re- 

 gular oval form, about six inches high, lifted up on a peduncle above 

 the uppermost leaves ; branches somewhat elongated, often inter- 

 mixed with several lanceolar, smM Jioral leaves —Flowers corym- 

 bose or umbellate, smallish, red, on short, coloured pedicels.- 

 Calyx almost white ; lacinia spreading, ovate, acute, dotted.— Co- 

 rolla rotate, four times longer than the calyx, with acute, ovate seg. 

 ments.-^/,m bursting from the middle to the apex- Style Ion- 



ger than the corolla, red. 



Should it prove a distinct species, which I shall be able to decide 

 upon when 1 receive specimens of the Silhet plant, i would propose 

 calling it Ajloribunda. 



A pyramidalis } Ruth. Nov. spec. 123 ; (excluding the synon. of 



