H» C, Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, 2SS 



ad basin fere 4-partitus, laciniis cum perianthii laciniis alter- 

 nantibus. Stipes drupse tubum perianthii implet et apicem 

 versus dentes minutos sepalis alternos exhibet. Caro medio- 

 cris. Putamen angulatum, conspicue reticulato-areolatum. 

 Semen pendulum, ovulo abortive hinc adjecto ; tegumentum 

 simplex, tenuissimum, raphe lineari semi-completa* notatiim, 

 et chalaza brunnea indistincta. Albumen carnosum, copio- 

 sum. Embryonis orthotropi radicula brevis supera, rotunda. 

 Cotyledones planae. Plumula inconspicua. 



Hab.' — Sylvas prope Sadiya, regionis Assamic^ superioris. 



This genus is dedicated to Major Jenkins, as a mark of res- 

 pect for his great exertions in investigating the Botany of the 

 province, over the affairs of which he so successfully presides. 



The plant was first found during the visit of the Tea 

 Deputation to Upper Assam, subsequently, (A. D. 1836), I 

 ascertained that it was not uncommon in the forests between 

 Sadiya and the Mishmee Mountains. It also appears to be 

 a native of Sylhet or the Khasiya Hills ; the specimen, from 

 which the drawing of the male Plant in the H. C. Library 

 was made, having, I am informed, been procured from that 

 quarter. 



The genus appears to me easily distinguishable from 

 any other of the family,f by the calyculus, the structure of 



* This is the ordinary form of raphe. But as instances are not un- 

 common in which the raphe is continued onwards to the true apex of 

 the ovulum, in which case I call it "raphe completa," the above dis- 

 tinction in terms appears to me necessary. From this form again, those 

 require to be distinguished in which the raphe does not apparently 

 cease at the chalaza, but becomes ramified in the outer integument. 

 The most important particular in the raphe completa is, that its 

 termination does not obviously correspond with the apex of the 

 cotyledons. 



t The nature of the fruit of this family appears to me not sufficiently 

 attended to in Endlicher's Gen : Plantarum. For instance in Daphne 

 cannabiba and viridiflora it appears to me to be a one-seeded berry, 

 the seed coat being the indurated part ; yet it is described as a drupe. 



