414 PENTAND1UA MONOGVNIA. HoveWO, 



rieties of V. madraspatana (See Sir J. E. Smith in Rees's cyclop, in 

 ]oco).— V. bracteata, Heyn. also preserved iifehis herbarium, is very 

 much like the former, and I am disposed to think that the round, sub- 

 letuse ha.f-inch.long, villous, floral leaves are merely accidental.— In 

 Silhet the climber is called Panee Lw<a (TTHlftwO.— Funis vimina* 

 Us of Rumphius is undoubtedly like a Vtntilago; but it climbs by 

 means of books,, which ours does not. — N. W. 



HOFEKIA, Schreb.gen. N. 575. 



Calyx five-parted. Carol five-petalled. Germ superior, three- 

 celled ; cells one-seeded ; attachment inferior. Style three-cleft. Cap-* 

 sule tricoccous. Embryo erect, with scanty pensperm. 



1. H. dukis, Thunb- japon. 301. Willd. spec. i. 1141. 



Sicku, vulgo Ken et Kenpokonas, Kaempf. amoen. p. 808. t. 800; 



A tree, a native of Nipal ; from thence introduced by Dr. Bucha- 

 nan into the botanic garden at Ca.cutla, where when eight years old,., 

 they began to blossom in April. 



Trunk in our young trees straight and high, from ten to twelve 

 feet to the branches ; and twenty inches in circumferences, four feet 

 above the earth. Total height about thirty feet. — Bark smooth,,, 

 dark-brown. Branches spreading much, branchlets bif'arious, round ; 

 young shoots hairy. leaves alternate, short-petioIed > cordate, acutely, 

 serrate, acuminate, three-nerved, smooth above, a little hairy under. 

 Heath ; from four to six inches longjbv from two to four broad — Sti~ 

 pules lanceolate, hairy, caducous. — Cymes axillary, raiely terminal, 

 dichotomous, villous; divisions clavate. — Flowers numerous, small, 

 white. — Calyx one-leaved, acetabuliform, inside hairy. Border five- 

 parted; divisions ovate, reflexed. — Petals five, inserted within the 

 fissures of the calyx, broad spatulate, sides incurved round the fila- 

 ments. — Filaments five, longer than the petals, recurved. Anthers 

 ovate. — Germ superior, ovate, three-celled, with one ovulum in each, 



