1854.] Some account of the Botanical Collection. 641 



Sedgwickia, which I some time ago, from examination of fruit- 

 bearing specimens, referred to Hamamelidese, turns out to be a 



centrum longitudinaliter dehiscentes, valvis extrorsum flexis persistentibus ; sterilia 

 5, vel plura (sub- 15) irregularia. Ovarium semi-infer urn. Ovula solitaria. Semina 

 ex-alata. 



Habitus. — Frutices Japanica? et Himalayanae, habitu Coryli. Gemmarum 

 squamae imbricates. Stipulae scariosa, caduca?, gemmarum squamas extimas for- 

 mantes. Folia cordata, mucronatoserrata,pennivenia. S picae precice, terminates 

 et axillares, basi squamis gemmarum involucrantibus , interdum subpetaloideis 

 stipatce, pendula, sericeopilosa ; fructus induratce. 



Obs. — Hamamelis, genus propinquum, differt habitu, et petalis elongatis aestiva- 

 tione spiraliter involutis. 



C. himalayana, (n. sp.) spicis multifloris, calyce cyathiformi 5-dentato villoso, 

 petalis obovatis quam genitalia longioribus, staminibus fertilibus subinaequalibus 

 pistillo longioribus, sterilibus sub- 15, 10 majoribus ante petala, 5 minoribus ante 

 stamina. 



Var. ? A. — Folia subtus ad venas tantum piloso-tomentosa. 



Habit. — Bootan mountains ; banks of the river and sides of woods at Tassang- 

 see, alt. 5387 feet ; on broken ground about Tongsa, alt. 6527 feet ; and near 

 Pangee Minzee Peeza, alt. 7500 feet. 



Var. ? B. — Folia subtus tomentoso-pilosa. 



Habit. — Khasiya Hills; Moflung, alt. 5500 feet, on the broken rooky ground 

 covered with bushes, between the bungalow and the river. 



Descr. — Frutex arbusculoideus, 6-8 pedalis. Hamuli flexuosi, brunneo-rubri. 

 Gemma floriferae alternae, ex axillis foliorum lapsorum, demum pendulae, superiores 

 praecociores ; squamai plures, imbricatae, ovatae, scaricsae, extimae brunnescentes intus 

 sericeae, intimae lutescentes utrinque sericeae, in bracteas sericeo-hirsutas seushu 

 minorifactae. Folia alterna ; petioti sub-semunciales, albido-pubescentes ; lamina 

 cordato-roundata, breviter cuspidata, mucronato-serrata, coriacea, subtus pubescens, 

 basi sub 9-venia, junior plicata secus venas ; venae secondariae marginem versus 

 oblique cerrentes, iuferiores latere exteriori 3-5-ties ramosae, intermediae dichotomae 

 versus apicem, summae simplices ; intervenia venulis transversis etanastomosautibus 

 reticulatae. Spicce pendulae, longit, l-l|-unciales, multiflorae, sericeo-hirsutae, 

 Flores majusculi, lutei, suaviter odori, hermaphroditti. 



Calyx breve obconicus 4-5 fidus, laciniis ovatis submembranceis. Petala 5, 

 perigyna, lacinis calycinis alterna, lutea, obovata, breve unguiculata, irregularia, 

 majoribus patentibus conduplicato-plicatis, margine involutis : aestivatio aperta. 



Stamina fertilia 4-5, sepalis opposita, fauci calycis inserta ; filamenta robusta, 

 breviuscula, fere cylindi ica ; antherce biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes, val- 

 vis coriaceis, extrorsum flexis, dorso mutuo applicitis, persistentibus, Pollen. 

 globosum, plicis 3 medio 1 -porosis. Stamina sterilia plura, irregularia, subbi- 



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