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deeply 4-parted, divisions long-subulate, united by pairs to thet 

 filaments, 3-4 times the length of the stamens ; ovary ovate : style 

 short, 2-cleft: drupe oblong, bony, 1 -seeded: flowers sessile, white. 



Courtallura in dense forests, flowering in August. 



GENFS in. LIGUSTBUM. 



niandria lllonosynla. Sesc: SyH--- 



Deriv. From Liga're, to tie; in allusibn to the Vfery flesftle 

 branches. 



GiU'. Char. Trees or shrubs with opposite leaves : flowers in 

 terminal panicles or thyrses : calyx 4-toothed, deciduous : corolla 

 fiinnel-shaped, tube longer than the calyx, limb 4-''parteld : Stamens, 

 inserted within the tube : oyary 2-celled, with 2 oviiles pendnloils- 

 from the apex in ejich : style very short : stigma 2-cleft, obtuse : 

 ^erry globose, 2-celled : seeds inverse : embf^q straight : albumen, 

 Bubcartilaginous. 



(1) L. Perottetij. (Dec^'j 



Iderit. Dec. prod. Vtll. p. 294. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1244. 



Spec. Char. Erect shrub : branches puberulous at the apex : 

 leaves elliptic, obtuse or subacute, glabrous, cojiaceousi somewhat 

 fleshy : thyrses terminal, composite, contracted : flowers white, fra- 

 grant. • 



Neilgherries on hilly pastures and banks of rivulets. 

 (2) L. Neilgh^rrense. (JS. W.) 



IdenU Wight's Icon. vol. IV.— Dalji. Bomb. flor. p. l59i 



Ekgrav. Wight 1. c. t. l243.— gpicil. II. t. 148. 



Spec. Char. Small tree : leaves ovate, elliptic, acute or (fuspt- 

 qately acuminate, coriaceous : . thyrses termiital, kx : flowers nU- 

 Ineroiis, white, fragrant : fruit black, linear-dblong. 



Neilgherries. Western Ghauts. Floweriog in May and June. 



GENUS IV. LBSrOCIERA. 

 Diandria Monogyuia. Sex: Syst-, 



Deriv. Named after G. Linocer, a French Physici&n. 



Gen. Char. Galj'x minute, 4- cleft : petals 4i. linearj or obloiig^ 

 plongated, united by pairs at the basej through the medium of thfe 

 ^tamens ; stamens two, uniting the base of the petals, inclusive : 

 «yary 2-celled, 4-oVulate, style very shoWj fetigina emarginately 



