390 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ira, 
or that ofthis. It was originally brought from China where it is call- 
ed Ta-mou-tang. 
^6. 1. cuneifolia. R. " 
Shrubby. Leaves broad-cuneate, lanceolate, pointed. Corymbs 
terminal, long-peduncled. Flowers crowded ; segments of the calyx 
oblong, conic. 
A native of the country about Dacca, from thence the late 
Colonel Peter Murray sent seeds to the Botanic Garden, where 
the plants grow freely, blossom in March, and ripen their seed in 
August and September. : 
Trunk short. Branches opposite, nearly erect, round, and covered 
With smooth brown bark ; young shoots smooth, and green.— Leaves 
opposite, short-petioled, broad, cuneate, lanceolate, recurved, entire, 
taper, obtuse-pointed, firm and polished, somewhat bullate ; length 
from fourto six inches, by one and a half or two broad. — Stipules taper- 
ing, subulate, pointed. — Corymbs terminal, long-peduneled, tricho- 
tomous, alternate divisions ending in fascicles of sub-sessile, crowded, 
pure white flowers, with a slight tinge of pink on the outside.— Brace 
tes in opposite pairs, at the various divisions of the corymb and un- 
der the calyx subulate.— Flowers very numerous, pure white, f fia- 
grant.—Calyr four-cleft to the base, divisions long, narrow, and 
acute.— Tube of the corol cylindric, very slender, three quarters € of 
an inch long ; the four segments of the border oblong and obtuse.— . 
Filaments from the inner edge of the fissures of the border of the 
corol.—Anthers narrow, sagittate.—Germ oval, two-celled, with one 
seed in each, attached to the middle of the partition, — Stigma of. 
. two linear lobes, elevated considerably above the mouth of the tube, 
— Berry round, turbinate, size of a small cherry, when ripe bright . 
red, and smooth, two-celled.— Seed solitary, round, oval, convex € on i 
the outside, with a large deep pit on the 1 inner. I ategu st 
exterior nuciform ; inner membranaceous, and greenish — Perisperm. 
conform to the seed.— Embryo erect, curved, like the convex seed. 
—Cotyledons reniform, — cyliüdric, length o the cotyledons, 
