$98 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. os 
slender and twiggy, hanging, green, with numerous compressed wis 
dened joints, like all the other parts of the plant smooth.— Leaves 
spreading, from five to seven inches long and almost as many times ex4 
ceeding their interstices, an inch or less broad a little above their acute 
- base, from thence tapering into a sharp acumen, opaque and somewhat 
glaucous above, pale beneath, with a slender white rib and very fine 
sub-opposite nearly transversal nerves which communicate with each 
other in sub-marginal arches.— Petiols about two lines long, channel- 
ed. Stipules adpressed, lanceolate, as broadas the interstices between 
the insertion of the two opposite leaves, tapering into a subulate point 
which generally exceeds the petiols in length.—Corymb small, 
supported by a pair of very short leaves, consisting of twice or 
thrice trichotomous, reddish, pubescent peduncles, with opposite li- 
near, subulate bractes under each division, having a stipuliform, fim- 
briated process between their bases. — Pedicels ternate or fascicled, 
two or three lines long, with three pairs of reddish fleshy subulate 
scales, the uppermost adpressed to the calyx.—Calyz very small, 
oblong, reddish, with erect subulate teeth ; at the bottom, within, there 
is a series of fleshy, subulate, withering and sphacelated cilia as in 
the family of Asclepiadee and Apocynee. Corolla white; tube slen- 
der, half an inch long; limb spreading, equalling the tube, with linear 
oblong-fatcate, slightly pubescent lacinie.—Anthers linear and long, 
the base bifid and ending in two whitish processes; filaments short, 
exserted. Style clavate ; stigma two-lobed, subulate, spreading, 
elevated above the mouth of the corolla. Berry as large as a mar- 
| row-fat pea, red, smooth, crowned with the four subulate, erect teeth 
of the calyx.— Seeds cup-shaped, hemispherical. : 
Obs. "This species is so distinct from all the others as to be easily 
known. Its slender hanging branches, pallid and glaucous leaves, 
and ihe small corymbs of crowded flowers contribute to render it à 
. very ornamental plant in the shrubbery.—N. W. 
18. I. rosea. Wall. ' jn 
Shrubby. Leaves oblong, acute with contracted sub-emarginate 
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