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326 CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
carnosis fusco-violaceis glabris instructis. — In Himalaya : 
V. s. in herb. Hook. $ , Khasya, alt. 3000-4000 ped. (Hook. 
& Th.). 
This is easily distinguished from the two following species by 
its oblong, stiff, coriaceous, shining, very pallid leaves, with the 
nerves and veins much sunk in the parenchyma, and covered 
beneath with a very pale glaucous bloom. The fructiferous 
plant only is known. The branch is line thick, with axils 
1-2 inches apart; the leaves are 3-3^ inches long, 14-lf inch 
broad, with a rather long, constricted, canaliculated, reflexed 
summit, the petiole being 7 lines long. The fructiferous pe- 
duncle is f-1 inch long, bearing three pedicels 2-3 lines long, 
each swollen at its apex into a globular receptacle marked by 
the cicatrices of three fallen drupes. The drupe, putamen, and 
seed have already been fully described. 
2. Hcematocarpus comptus, nob. ; — Baterium validum, nob. Ann. 
Nat. Hist. ser. 3. xiii. p. 124; — ramis teretibus, glaberrimis, 
tuberculatis, cortice pallido, rimoso; foliis anguste oblongis, 
imo subacutis, apice acuminatis, acumine recurvo et calloso- 
mucronato, e basi longe 3-nerviis, nervis cum aliis lateralibus 
utrinque 3 divaricatis intra marginem arcuatim nexis, venis- 
que insigniter transversis prominentibus, valde reticulatis, 
glaberrimis, supra subnitentibus, pallidis, subtus concolori- 
bus, marginibus cartilagineis reflexis; petiolo tenui, glabro, 
limbo 6-plo breviore : racemis supra-axillaribus, 2-4, fasci- 
culatis, folio longioribus ; ramis brevibus, flores 1-3 breviter 
pedicellatos gerentibus; sepalis 15, gradatim minoribus, ex- 
terioribus bracteiformibus, ternatim imbricatis, ovatis, glabris, 
cum marginibus membranaceis ciliatis; petalis 6, paulo mi- 
noribus, ovatis, crassioribus, fuscis, concavis, imo 2-glandu- 
losis, 3 interioribus ad basin lobis 2 dentiformibus erectis 
munitis; staminibus 6, filamentis dilatatis, breviusculis, con- 
nectivo amplissimo, orbiculari, marginibus late membranaceis, 
galeatis, carina interna crassa ; anthera 2-loba, lobis parvis 
sejunctis, infra medium dorso adnatis, hoc modo celatis; 
ovariis sterilibus 3, ovatis, erectis, fllamento sequilongis, stylo 
erecto apiculatis. — In Himalaya : v. s. in herb. Hook. Khasya 
(Griffiths); Sikhim (Hook. & Th.). 
This is a species easily distinguishable from the preceding by 
its much narrower, oblong leaves, somewhat acute at both ex- 
tremities, marked with prominent transverse veins and copious 
reticulation, and with shorter petioles. The leaves are 2f-3 
inches long, 1 j-lf inch broad, on a slender petiole | inch long. 
The racemes are 4-5 inches long; their branches (3-4 lines 
