206 PENTandria monogynia. Myrsine. 



oval ; acuminate ; acute at tlie base ; entire and without any tendency 

 to serratiires ; from five to seven inches long; copiously dotted 

 Bear the sharp margin ; shining above, pale and slightly glaucous 

 Underneath, with an elevated rib, and capillary, almost invisible nerves ; 

 on very short, thick, channelled, sometimes pink-coloured petiols. 

 Flowers polygamous, sessile, crowded in numerous small, rounded 

 Leads in the axils and vestiges of the fallen leaves, in which ia'ter case 

 they appear to be lateial ; greenish, with copious minute, elevated, 

 resinous, brown dots, supported by small, ovate, concave, permanent, 

 coriaceous bractes ; these heads are sesssle or elevated on very short, 

 thick, woody peduncles, scabrous with the permanent bractes. — JEsif- 

 xation valvate; — Calyx urceolate, with five ovate, acu'e teeth. Corolla 

 twice the size or the calyx, with lanceolate, recurved segments, and 

 short tube. — Filaments short, subulate. Anthers erect, oblong. Ova- 

 ry roundish, the internal structure as in the preceding species. Style 

 thick and fleshy, twice as long as the corolla, rather larger in the 

 middle, a little curved towards the apex ; the base sub-immersed in 

 the slightly depressed ovary. Stigma blunt, or obscurely two-lobed. 

 The male flowers rather larger. Drupe as in the preceding species 

 but smaller. 



Qbs. The wood of this tree is hard and durable like that of M. 

 semiserrala, and is used for similar purposes. The fruit is also eaten. 



3. M. bifaria, Wall. 



Arboreous, or shrubby, erect, with villous Iranchlets and petiols. 

 Leaves small, lanceolate, cuspidato-serrulate, and cuneate, entire at 

 the base. Flowers sub-sessile, fascxled, tetr-androus. 



Common in Nipal, from Hetounra to the valley, and on the sur- 

 rounding mountains ; time of blossoming and fruiting the same as the 

 preceding. 1 have also had it from Koomaoon and Shreenwgar. 



A small tree, about twenty feet high, irregularly divided from the 

 bottom so as to have scarcely any definite stem. Branches round, 



