dense, many-flowered panicles; peduncles and_ pedicels 
slender, puberulous ; bracts elliptic-ovate, small; pedicels 
upto ;yin.long. Receptacle obovoid, glabrous, about g in. 
long. Calyx as long as the receptacle, with four rotundate- 
ovate, ciliate segments. Petals 4, broad-elliptic, concave, 
pale yellow, ciliate, $ in. long. Stamens about 18, the 
longest as long as the petals. Ovary 2-celled; ovules: 
about six in each cell, in two rows. Berry globose, } in. in 
diameter, red, or at length violet-black. Seed solitary; testa 
thin, crustaceous, Hmbryo curved, glandular ; cotyledons 
minute.—Orto Srapr. i 
Fig. 1, a leaf; 2, bud; 3, flower; 4, fruit; 5, fruit, cut open; 6, embryo:— = 
all enlarged, excepting fig. 4. 
