198 LSXT. EUBIACEJ). (J. D. Hooker.) [Hamiltonia. 



An undershrub 4-12 ft. high, -with spreading branches. Leaves rather rigid, 6-12 

 by 2-4 in., elliptic-lanceolate or orate, acute, glabrous or pubescent, base acute ; 

 petiole 4-1 in. Flowers in subglobose heads, most copiously produced in terminal 

 trichotomons pubescent panicles, fragrant, white or blue, sessile or pedicelled ; bracts 

 subulate. Calyx-teeth very variable in shape, longer than the ovary, glabrous 

 pubescent or hairy, vidth often interposed gland-tipped processes. Corolla-tvhe J in., 

 pubescent or woolly. Stamens and style more or less exserted according to sex. 

 Capsule ^-^ in., ellipsoid. — Bhotan specimens have very short broad calyx-teeth. 



85. ZiEFTODEBItXIS, WaU. 



ShTufes, foetid when bruised; branches terete. Leaves opposite, the pairs 

 often fascicled ; stipules small, acute or pungent, persistent. Flowers bracteate 

 and bracteolate, 3-nate or in terminal fascicles, white or purplish, subsessUe ; 

 bracteoles connate into a 2-cuspidate scarious tube. Calyx-tvhe obconic, lobes 

 6 (4-6), coriaceous, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped, tube slender, hairy 

 within ; throat glabrous ; lobes 5 (4-6), valTate with inflexed edges. Stamens 

 5 (4-6), inserted in the corolla-throat, filaments short ; anthers linear-oblong, 

 ^ exserted, $ included effete. Ovary 6-celled ; style filiform, arms 5 linear 

 5 exserted ; ovules 1, basal, erect in each eell. Capsule cylindric or ovoid, 

 6-valved to the base, apex deciduous between the hardened persistent calyx- 

 teeth, valves separating from 3-5 erect free fibrous pyrenes, the fibres simple 

 or reticulating, loose or appressed. Seeds erect, testa membranous ; cotyledons 

 orbicular, radicle short slender inferior. — ^Distrib. Species 5 or 6, a Chinese, 

 and the following. 



1. Xi. lanceolata, Wall, in Roxh. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey Sr Wall. ii. 191 ; 

 Cnt,. 6241 ; leaves ovate elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate puberulous or hispid above, 

 stipules small acute appressed, capsule cylindric. DC. Prodr. iv. 462 ; Dene, 

 in Jacq. Voy. Bat. t. 90 ; Brand. For. Fl. 279. Hamiltonia suaveolens, Don 

 Prodr. 137. 



Temperate Himauiya, alt. 4-10,500 ft., from Kashmir to Bhotan, Wallich, &c. 



A rigid erect shrub ; branches glabrous, scabrid or hispid. Leaves very variable, 

 J -4 by J-H in., more or less haiiy beneath, rigid or rather membranous ; petiole 

 ^-\ in. Flowers subeafHtate, terminal, and on short lateral branches, white, 4-6- 

 merous. Bracts tubular, glabrous or puberulous. Calyx-teeth triangular, acute. 

 Corolla ^ in. long, glabrous or hairy. Capsule \-^ in., cylindric, truncate, crowned 

 by the persistent ciliate calyx-teeth ; fibrous utricle enclosing the seed long and very 

 lax. 



2. Xi. virg'ata, Fdiyem. in Aitchison Cat. Punjab. PI. 70 ; leaves very 

 small linear or oblong acute scabrid above, stipules with long pungent recurved 

 points, capsule cylindric. 



Western Himaiaya, alt. 4-7000 ft. from Murree, Falconer to Kulu, Edgeworth. 

 Salt Range, E'leming. 



A slender rigid excessively branched shrub ; branches very slender, erect or 

 divaricate, white with spreading pubescence. Leaves J-J by yj-^ in., fascicled, 

 straight or somewhnt falcate, margins flat or recurved, pale beneath, nerves obscure ; 

 stipules triangular with rigid long pungent points and thickened margins, white. 

 Bracts often equalling the capsule. Calyx glabrous, teeth lanceolate ciliate, much 

 longer than in L. lanceolata. Corolla ^ in. long, pubescent, purplish. Capsule ^ in., 

 subcylindric. Seed witli a few free fibres attached to the integument. 



3. Ii. G-riffitlili, Sooh. f. ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate acute narrowed into 

 the petiole smooth or scabrid above, stipides small appressed, capsule ovoid 

 twice as long as the bracteoles and as the lanceolate glabrous calyx-teeth. 



