294 peNTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Myrsine. 



the apex. Flowers peduncled, fascicled. Style short. Stigma dimi- 

 diate, unilateral, laciniate and fringed. 



Pu'b. and Newar, Bilsee and Beresee ; also KaUkatha. 



1 have found it in most parts of Nipal which I have visited, both 

 on the smaller hills and the highest mountains of Chwndra-gm and 

 Sheopore, where V blossoms and is in fruit during the cold season, 

 from December to March. It is a. so a native of the western part 

 of that kingdom. 



A branchy tree, from thirty to forty feet high, with a trunk of about 

 six inches in diameter, covered with pretty even, pale bark. Branches 

 round, ash-coloured, with many prominent, callous dots ; branch- 

 lets angular, smooth. — Buds terminal, conical, slender, reddish from 

 copious resinous dots ; scales lanceolate. — Leaves very close to each 

 other, scattered, spreading, from lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, atte- 

 nuate at each end, acuminate, from three to five inches lon», coriace- 

 ous and firm, finely cuspidate-serrulate from the middle to the apex 

 sometimes from the base almost, rarely on one side only ; on luxu- 

 riant shoots sometimes entire and coloured ; they are smooth and 

 shining, copiously besprinkled with reddish, resinous, pellucid dots, 

 especially along the recurved margins, where they form a line ; the un- 

 der side with a prominent rib and fine oblique nerves uniting in 

 sub-marginal, reticulate arches. — Petiols short, scarcely more than 

 two lines long, dotted, fiattish above. — Stipules none. — Flowers 

 small, scentless, tetrandrous or pentandrous, hermaphrodite and 

 male on the same or on different trees, from six to twelve together 

 in very numerous, axillary, rounded fascicles, which are surrounded 

 at the base by small, ovate, deciduous, brownish scales. — Peduncles 

 half an inch long, slender and filiform, sub-clavate, obscurely angu- 

 lar, dotted ; those in the centre of the fascicle sometimes abortive or 

 deficient. — Calyx persistent, copiously marked with elevated, resin- 

 ous dots; with five lanceolate, acute, spreading, ciliate teeth. — Corolla 

 rotate, of a light pink colour, dotted, twice as large as the 

 calyx; lacinia lanceolate, recurved, alternating with the teeth'. 



