Cassine. pentandria monocynia. 377 



tandria trigynia. Lamarck has removed it to monogynia (illustr. 

 bot. ii. 91. iV. 360. tab. 130.) and I follow the example of that great 

 botanist the more readily, because none of my species are trigynous, 

 and the chief affinity of the genus points to that order. 



In the natural or Jussieuan arrangement it belongs to Rhamnea, 

 or more properly to Celastrina of Mr. Broun. 



1 have found it in all the forests of the valley of Nipal and the sur- 

 rounding mountains; blossoming from May to August, with fruit in 

 October. 



A stately tree, with a very thick stem, covered with greyish bark, 

 and well furnished with branches ; the younger branches purplish, ra- 

 ther angular, smooth. — Leaves alternate, spreading, oval, acuminate, 

 acute at the base, perfectly entire, and smooth, rather fleshy, dark 

 green, shining above, pallid and opaque underneath, with elevated 

 lib and capillary, sub- opposite, short, remotish nerves which unite 

 to-wards the margins in reticulate arches, veins invisible; from three 

 to five inches lung. — Petiol an inch long, smooth, channelled above, 

 convex underneath, articulate at the base. Stipules opposite, very 

 small, lanceolate, sub-falcate, acute, sometimes with a tooth or two, 

 withering.— Peduncles axillary and lateral, pubescent, equalling the 

 peiiols in length, somewhat flattened, with two obscure, opposite 

 furrows, bifid at the apex, each division bearing a rounded umbel o£ 

 from twelve to sixteen small, white, smooth, inodorous flowers. 

 Pedicels uuequal, generally two or three lines long, rounded ; each 

 supported at the base by a very small ovate bracte. — Calyx ovate, 

 divided into five ovate, blunt, membrane-margined, cihate lacuna. 

 —Corolla more than twice as large as the calyx, rotate, smooth; 

 lacinia very deeply divided, ovate, rounded, crenulate, recurved 

 over the calyx and alternating with its lobes; tube none ; tfce 

 base of the corolla firmly attached to the bottom of the calyx so 

 as to be removed with difficulty. ^Estivation imbricate, globular. — 

 Filaments five, subulate, inserted beiow the fissures which separate 

 the lacinise of the corolla, and about the same length, spreading •, a«- 



