Ceanothas. pentandria monogynia. 37* 



three-furrowed, three-celled, three-valved. Seeds triangular, with 

 gibbous back, ash-coloured. The rest as iu C. circumscissa {Rhant- 

 nus Linn.) Gaertn. carp. ii. 110. t. 106. 



2. C. napulansis, Wall. 



Shrubby, sub-erect or rambling, all the upper parts pubescent. 

 Leaves sub-bifarious, oblong, acuminate, serrulate, smooth and shin- 

 ing, with alternate nerves, the axils of which are hairy. — Racemes 

 pubescent, panicled. 



1 have found this on various hills in the valley of Nipal, flowering 

 in May, in fruit in June. In the Hon. Company's botanic garden 

 it blossoms and produces fruit during the same months. 



A large unarmed shrub, with round, dotted and scabrous branch- 

 es, winch have a strong tendency to ramble over neighbouring shrubs 

 and even trees; young shoots as well as all the upper parts pubes- 

 cent. — Leaves approximate, alternate, sub-bifarious, slightly pendul- 

 ous, spreading, oblong, acuminate, obtusely serrulate, with an obtuse 

 or sub-acute base, smooth, from three to six inches loug, of a firm 

 leathery texture, dark-green, shining, convex above, pallid underneath, 

 with alternate nerves and reticulate veins, the axils of the former 

 slightly hairy. — Petiol scarcely half an inch long, cylindric, furrowed, 

 pubescent. Stipules minute, thick and fleshy, subulate, witheriug. 

 Flowers small, green, pubescent, fascicled, short-peduncled, dispos- 

 ed in slender, terminal racemes on the naked branches, interpersed 

 with a number of small, lanceolate floral leaflets, the whole formula- 

 a branchy panicle, which as the fruits enlarge changes to numerous ax- 

 illary racemes. — Peduncles and pedicels pubescent. Bractes linear, 

 minute. — Calyx ovate, divided into five, spreading, lanceolate, acute 

 lacuna, valvate during aestivation. — Petals exceedingly small, yellow- 

 ish, shorter than the calyx, sessile, erect, oblong, vaulted, conceal- 

 ing the opposite stamens, very soon withering. — Anthers large, round- 

 ed, bilocu'ar. — Ovary three-lobed. Style trifid. — Capsule as large 

 as a morrow fat pea, nearly globular of a dark red colour, smooth, 

 obscurely three-, rarely, four-lobed ; with a minute vestige of the style, 



