587 
(1) JL. GRATISSIMA. (Sweet. ) 
* 
Ident. Sweet, Brit. ft. Gard. —Dee. prod. TV. p. 358. 
Syn. Cinchona gratissima, Wall. Roxb. fl. Ind. é Ed. Walt.) 
IT. p. 154, ——Mussenda luculia, Ham. in Don. prod. fl. Nep. Pp 
139. 
Engrav. — loc. t. 145. 
Spec. Car. Small tree: branches pubescent: leaves elliptic, 
acuminated, short-petioled, glabrous above, villous on the veins be- 
neath: stipules solitary on each side, cuspidate, longer than the 
petioles : segments of the calyx deciduous: cymes terminal, many- 
flowered : flowers rose-coloured, rather fleshy, fragrant. 
Khasia mountains, flowering in August and September. 
GENUS XXXIX. LAWIA, 
Pentandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. Named after J. S. Law, Esq. of the Bemibay Civil a 
vice, an ardent promoter of Botany. | 
Gen. Car. Calyx-limb 5-6-parted: corolla tubular, sitions 
at the apex : limb 5~6-cleft : stamens 5—6, attached to the very base 
of the corolla: filaments very short: ovary. 5—6-celled, with numeg- 
rous ovules: placenta free, attached to the inner angle of the cell: 
seeds small,‘ irregularly shaped, (resembling. greins of gnneres 
black. 
(1) L. acuminata. (R. W.) 
Ident. Wight's Icon. vol. III. 
Engrav, Wight’s Icon. t. 1070. 
Sreec. CHar. Herbaceous, puberulous all over : leaves long-pe- 
tioled, oblong-oval, aciminated, glaucous beneath : ‘stipules triangu- 
lar, acute: cymes terminal, 2-3-trichotomous, lax; each diyision 
embraced by 2 connate bracts: calyx-tube short-campanulate': co- 
rolla about the length of the calyx, somewhat hairy within: stigina 
large, 5 5-6-lobed: segments acute: flowers sinall, yellow. 
‘Courtallum and Western slopes of the Shevagherry hills. F low- 
ering in August. ‘ 
ORDER LXXXII. GALIACEZ. 
_ Shrubs or herbaceous plants: leaves opposite, bearing buds 
in their axils, forming a. verticil with the 1-3 leaf-shaped sti- 
