Irora, . TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. | 387 
perior, four-toothed, coloured, permanent.— Coro! with a very long 
slender tube; segments of the border four, ovate, rather obtuse, 
Spreading.— Filaments four, short, inserted without the mouth of the 
tube, spreading, anthers linear, spreading.—Germ two-celled, with 
one seed in each, attached to the middle of the partition. Style 
length of the tube of the corol. Stigma bifid. — Berry spherical, size 
of a'large pea, smooth, fleshy, when ripe purple, two-celled,— Seed 
solitary, oval, convex on the outside, flat, with a deep pit on the 
inside. Integuments two ; exterior nuciform, 2 inner membranaceous. 
—Perisperm conform to the seed, cartilaginous.—Embryo erect, 
curved, nearly as long as the perisperm. Cotyledons reniform, cor- 
date, Radicle cylindric, longer than the cotyledons, inferior. l 
Obs. This species is pearly allied to I. coccinea, but differs i in the 
following respects : 
. Ast. This is a very ramous spreading bush, that much less so, 
and nearly erect. 
2d. In this the leaves are stem-clasping, and obtuse; in that 
sessile and acute. 
3d. In this the segments of the border of the corol are ovate, and 
rather obtuse ; in that ovate-lanceolate, and acute; and lastly, | 
4th. The calyx on the fruit is open in this Species, in that shut in- 
to a conical point. —— — T 
c8. L fulgens. R.* Peur 
Shrubby. Leaves sub-sessile, lanceolate, acute. Corymts te fermi 
nal highly coloured. Segments of the calyx cordate. Tube of the 
corol long and filiform, with smooth contracted mouth ; segments 
lanceolate, and larger than the erect stamens. Berries twoJobed» 
Miete diia Rumph. amb. iv. 105. t.. 46? pretty good. 
» This elegant, highly ornamental shrub is a native of the Molaciaa 
and from: thence was introduced into the Botanic do. where- it 
blossoms most part of the year. 
79 E longifolia, Sir J. E. Smith in Rees Cyclopædia.—T. Leiccoata, Lam, rio 
Bot. iii. 343, exclus. omn. synon. preter Rumphium.—N. W» - 
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