Excerpt from The Flora of British India, Vol. 2

Perennial shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple; stipules large, deciduous. Flowers racemed or panicled, white. Calyx persistent; tube campanulate; lobes 5. Petals 5. Stamens 10 or more. Disc lining the calyx-tube. Carpels 1-5, free or connate ventrally; ovules few or many. Follicles coriaceous or membranous. Seeds few or many, turgid; testa crustaceous, albumen copious. - Distrir. Species 4 or 5, natives of the Himalaya, Java, N.E. Asia, and N. America.

1. N. thyrsiflora, Don Prodr. 228; stipules usually serrate, racemes slender panicled, bracteoles usually toothed, calyx silky. DC. Prodr. ii. 546; Wall. Cat. 698; Hook. f. & Thoms, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 75. N. virgata, Wall. Cat. 7108. Adenilema fallax, Blume Bijd. 1121.

Central and Eastern Temperate Himalaya, alt. 5-8000 ft. Khasia Mts., alt. 5-7000 ft. - Distrib. Java.

A large shrub, with drooping slender leafy branches. Leaves 2 by in., ovate-cordate, 3-lobed; lobes shallow, acute, sharply irregularly toothed or serrate. Panicles 3-8 in. Flowers shortly pedicelled. Calyx-tube 1/3 in., base roundel; lobes shorter than the tube, lanceolate, acute, in fruit often clothed with long rigid gland-tipped bristles. Petals small, white, oblong or obcordate. Fruit inclosed in the calyx, of 1 carpel.

2. N. rublflora, Don Prodr. 229; racemes solitary or shortly panicled, stipules and bracteoles usually quite entire, calyx tomentose. DC. Prodr. ii. 547; Hook. f. & Thoms, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 75; Wall. Cat. 697.

Central and Eastern Temperate Himalaya; Nipal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 8-10,000 ft,, J. D. H.

Very similar to N. thyrsiflora in foliage, but leaves usually more deeply lobed; inflorescence always much snorter, petals larger, and calyx tomentose.

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