Bergera. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 375 
nate, smooth, ofa shining deep green, from one and a half 
to two inches long, and about one broad, the inferior 
smallest. Petioles glandular, round. Corymbs terminal, 
globular, crowded with pretty large, beautiful, pure 
white, exquisitely fragrant flowers. Calyx one-leaved, 
five-parted, glandular, divisions erect, acute. Corol five- 
petalled, campanulate. Petals lanceolate, spreading at 
top. Nectary a fleshy ring surrounding the base of the 
germ. Filaments ten, alternately longer, and larger. An- 
thers oblong. Germ superior, oblong, glandular, two-cell- 
ed, with two ovula in each vertically attached to the upper 
half of the partition. Style thick, length of the stamens. 
Stigma large, glandular, Seeds one, or two, oblong, 
pointed above, flat on one side, woolly. Embryo inverse, 
and without perisperm. 
2. M. Sumatrana. R.. 2 
Leaves alternately pinnate ; leaflets from five to seven, 
ovate and ovate-oblong, emarginate. Flowers terminal. 
A large shrub, a native of Sumatra, and from thence 
sent to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, by Dr. C. Camp- 
bell, under the name Chalcas; it is much thinner of 
branches, has larger leaves, and fewer but much larger 
flowers, than exotica, and when growing together most 
conspicuously different in habit. Flowers, and pees. its 
Seed at various times through the year. 
BERGERA. Schreb. gen. n. 718- 
Calyx five-toothed. Corol five-petalled, expanding. 
Germ two-celled, one ovula in each attached to the axis. 
_ Berry superior, one or two-seeded. Embryo inverse, 
Without perisperm. 
1, B. Konigii. Willd. 2. 549. : 
Leaflets obliquely lanceolate, serrate. 
