Phillyrea. ` DIANDRIA~ MONOGYNIA. 101 
of the corol, and about as long as the segments of its border. Anthers’ 
incumbent.— Germ above, but lodged deep in the bottom of the calyx, 
two-celled, with two ovula in each. Style short. Stigma elavate, 
entire.— Drupe size of a small French bean, obliquely obovate, 
smooth, generally one-celled,— Nut solitary, with the rudiment of a 
second, but I never saw more than one come to maturity; pointed at 
the base, furrowed on the outside, covered, with a thick, somewhat 
-indurated envelope, though scarcely hard enough to be called a nut. 
Embryo i inverse, lodged in a pearl-coloured amygdaline perisperm. 
Obs. Ligustrum Japonicum. Thunb. Flor. Japan. P. 17. F. 1. is a 
tolerably good representation of this tree; but the one-seeded nut, 
short style, and clavate stigma of my piant, will not. allow me to 
think they can be the same. 
9. P. robusta. R. 
Leaves ovate-oblong, entire, acuminate. Panicles terminal, large 
and spreading. Berries sub-cylindric, one-seeded. 
. Bhooeemoora, the vernacular name in Si/het, where it grows to 
hs a very large tree, and furnishes the natives, Kc. with very hard 
.durable wood. Flowering time June and July; the seed ripen in 
January and February. - 
Young shoots void of pubescence, but dotted with small whitish 
specks.— Leaves opposite, short-petioled, ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, entize, smooth; three or four inches long, and one or one and a 
half broad.— Panicles terminal, large, very ramous; ramifications 
four, round, and villous.—Flowers oblong, acute, villous.—Calyr 
bowl-shaped, four-toothed.— Coro! campanulate. Tube very short; 
border four-parted .— Filaments short, inserted on the little tube of the 
corol opposite to each other. Anthers oblong.— Germ superior, de- 
pressed, two-celled, with two ovula in each, attached to the top of 
the partition.— Style and stigma clavate, apex flat and emarginate.— 
— Berries (for they can scarce be called drupes) sub-cylindric, smooth, 
‘succulent, dark olive-purple, size of a large berberry, rarely m more 
than one-celled.— Seed solitary, conform to the bens: Int. 
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