JZmnymus. pentandria monogtnia^ 411- 



dundes filiform, axillary, several times dichotomous. Capsules armed • 

 with numerous prickles. 



Grows wild in tlie mountainous forests of Nipal, especially on Sheo- 

 pore. Flowering in March and April, fruit ripening in August. 



This is a very large branchy shrub, climbing over trees and 

 rocks, and radicant by means of dense capillary fibres. The stem 

 is from two to four inches in diameter, covered with soft, spungy, 

 yellow bark. Branches opposite, smooth, ash-coloured, sometimes-' 

 rooting, four-cornered at the apex. Buds oblong, attenuate, con. 

 sistino- of ovate, imbrica'e scales, which, continue after the branch* 

 lias wrown out, surrounding its base. — Leaves opposite, from lan- 

 ceolate to ovate, acuminate, serrulate, with an acute or rounded base, 

 from two to three inches long, firm and leathery, perfectly smooth, 

 spreading, sub-decussated, approximate, dark-green, shining, with* 

 capillary, sub-transversal nerves, which unite in arches near the: 

 margin on the upper surface, pallid underneath. — Petiol very short. 

 ■ — Stipules no others than some very minute, fleshy, subulate 

 sea es on each side of the base of trie petiol — Peduncles filifoim,- 

 axillary, opposite,, considerably shorter than the leaves, smooth, 

 flattened, twice or liirice dichotomous, with a flower in each bi- 

 furcation, and a pair of opposite, triangular, ciliate, withering 

 bractlets under each sub-division. — Flowzrs small, pea-green, ino- 

 dorous, short peduncled, quadnfid and tetrandrous ; that in the bifur= 

 cation on a longer pedicel. Calyx flat, with rounded, concave, 

 recurved lacinia. — Petals orbicular, crenulate, a little veined, seve« 

 ral times larger than the lacinia. — Stamina erect, somewhat shorter 

 than the petals. — Ovary half sunk into the fleshy bottom of the 

 calyx, obscurely four-sided, and four furrowed, with four cells, each 

 containing two pendulous ovula. Style short, Stigma truncate. 

 — Capsule pendulous, globular, yellow, smooth, about four lines in 

 diameter, beset with numerous, spreading, subulate, short prick:e3, its- 

 vertex naked, crowned with a short style, the base retuse, half con- 

 cealing the permanent, reflected calyx ; four-celled, containing four 



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