■104 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eu<mymU9. 



both sides ; from three to four inches long, by about one broad. ■ 



Teduncles between the pairs of leaves, sometimes opposite, some- 

 times solitary, short, and three-flowered. — Flowers sh ort-pedicelled, 

 small, pale-yellow — Bractes subulate, caducous. — Calyx five-leaved; 

 leaflets roundish, smooth and imbricated- — Petals five, oblong, mar- 

 gins incurved, many times longer than the calyx ; down the middle oa 

 the inside runs an elevated sharp rib. — Filaments five, shorter than the 

 germ, alternate with the petals. Anthers erect, long-cordate. — Germ 

 superior, ovale, two-celled ; each cell containing two ovula, attached 

 to the thickened middle of the partition. Style none, or very short. 

 Stigma four-toothed.— Capsule oblong, size of a small field bean, 

 smooth, one-celled, two-valved opening from the base. — Seeds so- 

 litary, at least I have not found more, oval, covered with a thin, suc- 

 culent, veined, bright, scarlet aril. — Ferisperm conform to the seed, 

 firm, and tough. — Embryo erect. Cotyledons ovate-cordate. Radicle 

 cjlindric, inferior. 



Additional species by N. W. 



4. E. grandiflora, Wall. 



Leaves obovate-oblong, obtuse, acutely serrulate, with a tapering, 

 entire base. Peduncles slender, flattened, nearly equalling the leaves, 

 from three- to six-flowered. Capsule globular, pendulous, obscurely 

 four-cornered, with pendulous, sub-geminaie seeds; supported by the 

 thickened and enlarged calyx. 



1 have met with it in various forest in the valley of Nipal, blossom- 

 ing in April and May, and ripening its fruit in September. 



A small branchy tree, rising only to the height of ten or twelve feet, 

 Branches round, slender, grey, smooth, as are all the other parts ; 

 branch-lets opposite, slightly four-cornered, somewhat compressed, 

 with two opposite capillary furrows-- — Leaves opposite, leathery, from 

 oblong to ovate, obtuse, sometimes rounded at the apex, sharply 

 serrulate, acute, and entire at the base ; from three to four inches 

 long, perfectly smooth on both sides, shining above, pallid underneath, 

 With sub-opposite capillary nerves, and reticulate veins.— Petiols very 



