extremities knotted, and from these knots the leaves grow on the 

 younger branches in pairs, but afterwards in bundles of three 

 or four together. Leaves roundish, generally obovate, shining 

 green on the upper and paler on the under surface. Flowers 

 white, very like those of the Common Jasmine, solitary, 

 sessile, and generally axillary. Calyx small, five-toothed : 

 teeth subulate, spreading, connected half-way by a mem- 

 brane. Tube of Corolla green, shorter than the limb, which 

 is usually divided into five, sometimes into six, lanceolate 

 segments, and, according to Patrick Browne, in Jamaica, 

 constantly into four only. Stamens equal in number to the 

 lacinise of the corolla : filaments none : anthers linear, sessile, 

 inserted into the margin of the tube. Germen inferior : style 

 shorter than the tube, club-shaped r stigma bifid, fleshy. 



Varies much in the size of the leaves and in the number 

 of spines, which latter, in old plants, are sometimes entirely 

 wanting, and in this state it is supposed by Swartz to be 

 the Randia mitis of the Species Plantarum. 



The berries, which are never produced with us, afford a 

 permanent blue colour, hence the common appellation in 

 Jamaica of Indigo-Berry. And if the Lycium Beloxylon of 

 Plukenet, above quoted, be the same, which we see no 

 reason to doubt, the natives on the Continent make arrows of 

 the wood and ink of the berries, whence it is called by the 

 English settlers, Dartwood and Ink-Berries. 



Communicated by Messrs. Loddiges and Sons, flowering 

 in May. It seems to have very rarely come into blossom in 

 this country, as its season of flowering is not marked in the 

 Hortus Kewensis. Propagated by cuttings. Requires to be 

 kept in an airy part of the stove. 



