318 pentandkia monogynia. Gardnera. 



auctuar. 12. t. 7, (quoted with a doubt as a congener by that author) 

 that plant being a species of Pittospohan. I have not as yet seen the 

 fruit, and the ovary is so small as to have hitherto entirely eluded my 

 endeavours to ascertain its anatomy ; but I dare say both will be found 

 to correspond better with Geuiosiorria than with Logania of Brown, 

 J. cit. 



As the Nipal species of Gardnera alluded to in the first vol. of 

 this work, p. 403, is both tetrandrous and pentandrous, I insert the 

 description of it here, with an amended character of the genus and 

 G. ovata : 



GARDNERA, Wall, in Roxb.fl. hid. i. 400. 



Calyx inferior, cup-shaped. Corolla rotate, with naked throat. 

 Anthers erect, sometimes covering. Stigma obscurely two-lobed. 

 Berry two-celled, two-seeded. Seeds cup-shaped. 



1. G. ovata, Wall. I. c. 



1. eaves acuminate. Corymbs axillary, many-flowered. Flowers 

 tetrandrous. Anthers cohering into a tube. 



Introduced from Silhet into the Hon. Company's botanic garden 

 at Calcutta, in 1615 ; it blossomed for the first time in April 1823. 



2. G. angustifolia, Wall. 



Leaves nai row-lanceolate, tapering into a long acumen. Flowers 

 solitary, axillary, pentandrous. Anthers distinct. 



I have found it common in forests on the mountains surrounding 

 the valley of Nipal, blossoming during the rainy season, with ripe 

 fruit in the cold weather. 



A large, extremely branchy, climbing, perfectly smooth shrub, 

 with long, slender, variously twisted and bent branches, covered with 

 ash-coloured bark; all the young parts pale-gieen, aud slightly glau- 

 cous. — Leaves opposite, most spreading, narrow-lanceolate, some- 

 times almost linear-lanceolate, tapering from a rounded base to a 

 long, narrow, cuspidate acumen, from three to five inches long, not 



