8 LxxiT. CAPKIFOLIACB^. (0. B. Clarke.) IVibumvm. 



summit of the tube. Drupe i by J in., ellipsoid, scarcely compressed, red, crowned 

 by the thick short style. — Deccan specimens have more slender panicles, smaller 

 flowers and rather narrower berries than Himalayan, but some Ceylon specimens 

 appear altogether undistinguishable from the Himalayan. 



16. v. nervosum, Don Prodr. 141, not of Hk. ^ Am. ; leaves eliptic- 

 oMong acute crenate-serrate parallel-nerved hairy on the nerves beneath, cymes 

 subcapitate silky, bracts oblong obtuse silky deciduous. I)C. Prodr. iv. 327 ; 

 H. f. ^ T. in Journ. Linn. Soo. ii. 178 ; Brandis For. Fl. 259. V. grandi- 

 floruni, Wall. Cat. mi:-, DC. I.e. 329; Oersted in Vidensk. Meddel. 1860, 296, 

 t. Q,Jig. 1-4 (Solenotinus). 



Himalaya, alt. 10-13,000 ft., from Kashmie to Sikkim, not common ; Wvdlich, &c. 



A large shrub, or gnarled small tree,; branehlets pilose. Leaves 2^3 by 1 J in., 

 scarcely acuminate, base cuneate, adult glabrous above ; petiole \-^ in. Cymes 

 appear before the leaves; Tarauches very short; outer bracts ovate, J in. diam., 

 obtuse ; inner f by J in., oblong. Calyx-iube glabrous, teeth small, irregular, often 

 ciliate. Corolla-tube J-^ in. ; lobes J in., elliptic, spreading, rose. Stamens inserted 

 2 near the top of the corolla-tube, 3 somewhat lower down. Drupe nearly ^ by J in., 

 ellipsoid, hardly compressed. 



17. V. foetens, Dene, in Jaeq. Voy. Bot. 75, t. 84; leaves elliptic or 

 oblong crenate-serrate glabrotis, cymes thyrsiform branches glabrous or sparingly 

 pilose ultimately lax. Sk. f. ^ T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 178 : Brandis For. 

 Fl. 259. 



Kashmir, alt. 6-10,000 ft., from Mukbee to Chumba; Jaoquemont, &c., not 

 rare. 



A large shrub; branehlets glabrous, or laxly pubescent. Leaves 3 by 1-1 J in., 

 shortly acute, base cuneate or obtuse, parallel-nerved, adult glabrous except tufts of 

 hairs in the axils of the nerves beneath. Inflorescence nearly as in V. nervosum, 

 Don, but soon more lax and corolla larger ; outer bracts ovate or oblong, deciduous ; 

 bracteoles linear, scarious, pubescent. Stamens inserted 2 near the top of the 

 corolla-tube, 3 lower down. Drupe ^-^ by J in., ellipsoid, little compressed, red, 

 edible. 



4. TZlXOSTEVnX, Linn..' 



Herbs ; stems from a perennial stock, simple, erect. Leaves opposite, sessile, 

 connate, obovate, entire or sinuate. Flowers whorled in short terminal spikes 

 (axillary in the non-Indian species), lurid, 2-bracteolate. Caly.x-tuhe ovoid ; 

 lobes 5, short or long and foliaceous, persistent. Corolla narrow'funnel-shaped, 

 gibbous at the base ; lobes 5, unequal, obtuse, imbricate. Stamens 5, inserted 

 on the coroUa-tube ; anthers linear, included. 0»aij-«/ 3-5-celled ; style filiform 

 included, stigma capitate 3-5-lobed ; ovules solitary in each cell, pendulous! 

 Ben-y 2-3- (rarely 4^5-) celled, 2-3-seeded. Seeds oblong, angular; testa 

 bony ; albumen fleshy ; embryo minute.— Species 3 ; 2 N. American, 1 Hima- 

 layan. 



1. T. hirsutum, Wall, in Moxh. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey ^ Wall. ii. 180- 

 hairy, spike short terminal, calyx-lobes minute, drupe 3-seeded. DC Prodr 

 iv. 380. T. himalayanum. Wall. Cat. 484; DC. Prodr. I. e.; H. f. & T. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 173. 



Nipal; Gossain Than, Wallich. Sikkim; alt. 10-12,000 ft, J. D H KmnAow 

 alt 10,600 ft, Strach. # Winterb. 



Patently hairy. Stems 18 in. Leaves broadly elliptie-obovate obtuse, hairy on 



