352 ^ENTANDRIA MONOGYNlA. RhamnUS. 



and from half an inch to an inch broad —Stipules petiolarfj 

 ensiform, ciliate, base permanent. — Peduncles from the scales 

 which embrace the base of the young shoots, and axillary, ge- 

 nerally tern, slender, one-flowered. — Flowers very small, yellow. — 

 Calyx campanulate, more generally four- than five-cleft. — Corol no 

 other than the little scales of the genus, which are here very imper- 

 fect. — Filaments four or five, as there are divisions in the border of 

 the calyx, small. Anthers often imperfect. — Germ two or three- 

 lobed, ovate, smooth, from two to three-celled, with one ovuium in 

 each, attached to the lower and inner angle of its cell. Style short. 

 Stigma two- or three-cleft; segments recurvate. 



It differs from R. catharticus ; the only species known tome which 

 it approaches, in having a two- or three-cleft stigma, with just as 

 many lobes, cells, and seeds as in the germ, consequently the number 

 of seeds in the berry can never exceed the contents of the germ, it 

 cannot therefore be catharticus, which has a four-cleft stigma, and 

 four-seeded berry. 



Obs. by N. W. 



This is among the more common trees in Nipal where I have 

 found it both on mountains and in valleys. It flowers in April and 

 May, and ripens its fruit in July. 



It grows to be a middling size, and is copiously furnished with 

 rigid branches ; which are opposite while young,' ending in a round, 

 slender spine. The bark is pretty even, covered with a shining sil- 

 very epidermis, which separates here and there. The leaves appear 

 fascicled when they first shoot out, which happens when the tree is 

 in blossom; afterwards they become remote, and are generally sub- 

 opposite ; their form is lanceolate, tapering at both ends, acuminate ; 

 the serratures terminated by a small glandular withering point, be- 

 coming soon obtuse ; nerves alternating, very oblique, reticulate to- 

 wards the margin ; their axils slightly depressed and villous under- 

 neath; veinsnumerous, transversely reticulate, inconspicuous. — Petiol 

 pubescent, channelled, slender, half an inch long.— S^/m/es oppo- 



