Pierardia, OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 255. 
to ten feet high, with little or no trunk, but many, sub-_ 
erect branches, covered with dark-coloured, scabrous bark, 
Ju their native soil they blossom in February, and ripen 
their fruit in June. 3 
Leaves alternate, petioled, oblong, entire, smooth on 
both sides ; ; generally about eight inches long. Petioles 
gWianelléd, about two inches long. Racemes from the 
naked branches (such as are about the thickness of the 
little finger seem to produce the greatest number) droop- 
‘ing, covered nearly to the base with numerous, small, yel- 
low flowers. Bractes lanceolate, inserted on the common 
peduncle, three-flowered, each flower hanging on its pro- 
‘per pedicel, there uniting into a common oue rather 
Shorter than its bracte. Calyx, or corol, for there is but 
one, four-leaved ; leaflets oval, duwny, fleshy, incurv- 
ed over the stamens, and pistil. Filaments generally 
eight, short, incurved, inserted round the. base of the 
germ. Anthers two-lobed. Germ superior, round, three 
ormore generally four-celled, with two ovula i in each, at- 
tached to the top of the cell. Berry round, size of a large 
f00seberry, smooth, yellow, from three to four-celled. 
Seed solitary, subovate ; invested in a copious ‘Soft, 
White, subacid, edible aril. Integument reddish, firm, 
pretty thick. Perisperm conform to the’ seed, cartilas 
ginous. Embryo nearly as broad and long as the peris- 
Perm, inverse. Co/yledons oval, three-uerved, . Hadicls 
val, superior. 
Note. This new genus, for so it seems to me, 7 Tine 
named after Francis Pierard, Esq. one of the Honourable 
East India Company’s Civil Servants. His abilities as a 
Botanist, in discovering various new plants, with which 
he has enriched the Honourable Company’s Botanic gar- 
den, claims for him this mark of distinction, 
