Johnies - -TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. irs — 
half as much broad.—Stipules minute, caducous.— Peduncles — 
axillary, several, longer than the petioles, one-flowered.— Flowers 
small, deep greenish orange colour.— — Calyx of five round, villous 
margined, minute leaflets.— Petals round, sessile, with the margins 
recurved.— Filaments no other than the three, short, triangular seg. 
ments of the tleshy urceolate uectary, elevating tbe three, large, twin 
anthers even with the stigma.— Germ above, conical ; three-celled, 
with two ovula in each, attached to the axis.—Style scarcely any ; 
stigma acute.— Berry size of a crab-apple, round, smooth, dull.red. 
Pulp i in considerable. quantity, white, of a a^ soft, tough, gelatinous 
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consistence, and eaten by the natives.—Seeds two, or three, separa- 
ted by a thick partition of pulp ; ; transversely oblong ; flat on the in- 
side, convex on the exterior. —Integuments, single, spongy, brown.— _ 
Perisperm none. Embryo consisting of two equal cotyledons, con. 
form to the seed, and until vegetation begins, so firmly, and closely 
united, that they seem to be of one entire piece.—Radicle small, 
lodged at the umbilicus, relative, centripetal. 
2. J. coromandeliana. R. 
Leaves opposite, serrulate, sciet Cayo. five-toothed. Petals 
unguiculate. 
A small, straggling tree, or rather a ‘eae climbing shrub, a native 
of forests and mountains of Coromandel, 
-Leaves opposite, short-petioled,. oval, smooth, ieee 
times most | slightly serrulate ; about three inches long, and one and 
a half broad,— Peduncles axillary, several, bowing, one-flowered.— 
Calyx inferior, one-leaved, five-cleft. — Petals five, clawed, round, or 
oval, spreading —Nectary a large globular, fleshy receptacle, elevat- 
ing the stamens and pistiL— Filaments three, spreading, shortér than 
the petals, inserted into the top of the nectary round the germ. An- 
thers small, twin.— Germ half immersed in the nectary, thr led, - 
With one or two opula in each, attached to the axis. Sty/every. short. | 
Stigma simple. Vii Berry superior, globular, upon the remaining ne 
tary; or receptacle, size and colour of E small red cheny P  one-celled, | 
one-seeded. 
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