Ceanothm. pentandria monogynia. ?,73 



by the thickened, but otherwise not enlarged, calycine laciniae, petals, 

 and filaments, and having a central vestige of the style ; the base ta- 

 pering and club-shaped ; one-celled. Flesh of a pallid brown co- 

 lour, soft, rather glutinous, about one-third of an inch thick, tra- 

 versed longitudinally by a number of filiform vessels. Nut solitary, 

 globular, large, smooth, without any sutures, filling exactly the cell 

 and rather firmly adhering to its sides, marked with a few distant 

 small pits into which some of the fibres of the flesh enter, upper end 

 scarcely apiculate, base somewhat uneven and perforated ; put amen 

 grey, scarcely a line thick, one-celled, one-seeded. Perisperm amy g- 

 daline, white, conform to the nut, covered by a brown, thin mem- 

 brane; it is perforated to above its middle by a capillary tube rising 

 from he bottom opposite to the hole in the shell and vanishing up- 

 wards, containing seemingly the vestige of the above-mentioned chord 

 of the ovulum. Embryo very short, oblong, white, situated rather 

 obliquely under the vertex of the perisperm, a little within its peri- 

 phery ; cotyledons parallel, oblong ; radicle superior, conical. 



Obs. The inhabitants of Nipal are very fond of the fruit of this 

 tree, which however to a European palate holds out but little tempta- 

 tion. The wood is nearly white, of a firm texture, and appears to me 

 suited to the work of the cabinet maker, it is however, only used 

 for firewood and posts. — The direction of the ovulum and that of 

 the embryo are directly contrary, the former being decidedly erect, 

 while the latter is pendulous. — N. W. 



CEANOTHUS, Linn. 



Tetah five, vaulted, opposite to the stamens. Berry dry, three- 

 celled, three. seeded. 



1. C. asiatica, Linn. 



Erect, smooth. Leaves ovate, serrulate, glossy, tri-nerved at the 

 base ; peduncles axillary, ramous, many-flowered, shorter than the 

 leaves, 



