262 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Symphorema. 
lyx superior, small, from six to eight-toothed. Petals from 
six to eight, linear, recurved. Filaments eight, short, flat, 
hairy, inserted within the petals on a glandular hemis- 
pherical body which crowns the germ, Anthers linear, ve- 
ry long. Germ inferior, two-celled, with one ovula in each, 
attached to the top of the axis. Style the length of the 
stamina. Stigma large, four-toothed. Drupe oval, obtuse- 
pointed, the size of a small cherry, pulp in small quanti- 
ty butsoft and dark coloured ; round the base of the ob- 
tuse point may be traced the minute remains of the ca- 
lyx. Nut single, conform to the drupe, brittle, though 
‘hard, black, two-celled, grooved on the sides, with the a- 
pex transversely two-toothed. Seed solitary, oval, flat- 
tened. Integument single, thin. Perisperm conform to the 
seed, softand oily. Embryo inverse, nearly as extensive 
as the perisperm ; cotyledons ovate, cordate, obtuse, Ra- 
dicle superior, oval. 
SYMPHOREMA. 
Calyx ; involucre, from six to eight-leaved. posal 
from six to eight-toothed. Corol one-petalled, from six t0 
eight-cleft. Capsule none. Seed single, inclosed in the 
calyx. « eal 
S. involucrata. Corom. pl. 2. oN. 186. nese’ gaa 
Teling. Suroodoo. piri 
A large seandent shrub, a native of the Conseiaatl 
forests, &c. Leaves deciduous during the cold seaso™, 
and coming out with the flowers in Rebroary; Mart ond 
Apri. 
sdSliens woody, seein climbing. ‘Bark cesbaooetell 
Branches straight, cross-armed. Leaves opposite, short 
petioled, ovate, exiailyina wed downy ; about three it 
ches Jong, and two broad. -Peduncles fascicled, from 
the extremities of the: naked branchlets, and last years 
