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ones cinereous: the very young shoots frequently clothed 
with rusty down. Leaves unequally pinnate : leaflets alternate; 
2 or3, rarely 4, elliptic, very broad in the middle, rapidly 
tapering towards both ends, and terminating in a short, ob- 
tuse, sometimes emarginate, acumen, quite entire, smooth, cori- 
aceous, usually mottled above with dirty whitish spots, from 
3 to 4 inches long and about 2 broad. —Hacemes axillary and 
terminal, shorter than the leaves, usually compound, subcapi- 
tate; the rachis ferruginous, furnished at its divisions with 
small bracteas. Calyx very small, 5-parted, persistent. Cor- 
olla : petals 5, obovato-lanceolate, many times larger than the 
calyx. Stamens 10, inferior filaments about the length of the 
petals, a little flattened at the base, and tapering equally to a 
point, not inserted into a nectarial ring nor swollen in the 
middle as in G. pentaphylla, but alternately into the base 
of the petals, and upon 5 intermediate glands, which surround 
the pedicel of the germen. Pistil: germen superior, pedi- 
celled, 5-celled, not surrounded at the base by a disk. Style 
none, or at least not to be distinguished from the germen. 
Stigma obtuse, somewhat umbilicate. Fruit, a berry about 
the size of a large pea, containing, when ripe, a single round 
seed, sometimes 2 seeds. 
This plant is a native of the sea-coast, growing in hedges 
and thickets. I have only met with it in the Tanjore country; 
but I am far from thinking that its geographical range is so 
limited, since it is only lately that I ascertained it to be a 
species distinct from the G. pentaphylla, which it much re- 
sembles, I consequently may often have passed it as such with- 
out observation, Like the G. pentaphylla, the flowers are re- 
markably fragrant, a property which they retain a long time, 
if dried and moistened again. The smell of some speci- 
mens that have been many months in my herbarium be- 
came as fresh as the day they were gathered, on being put 
into water for a few seconds. It differs from the G. penta- 
phylla in wanting the nectarial ring, into which the stamens and 
petals of that species are inserted, in the absence of the 
swelling on the filaments, in the germen being - pedicelled, 
in the want of the style, and in the stigma being entire and 
