Limonia. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 377 
tolerably smooth above, and somewhat villous under- 
neath, differing in size, the exterior or largest above six 
inches long and two broad. Petiolets and petioles round, 
and a little villous, Corymbs terminal, decompound, 
large, ramifications villous. Flowers short-pedicelled, 
erect, numerous, white, emitting a strong, heavy, offen- 
-Sive smell. Bractes very minute, Perianth five-toothed. 
‘Petals five, lanceolate, expanding. Stamens alternately 
longer. Germsuperior, oval, resting on a fleshy receptacle. 
Style clavate. Stigma subrotund. Berry the size of a large 
pea, oval, when ripe yellow. Seed solitary, nearly as 
large as the berry. ie 
_LIMONIA. Schreb. gen. n. 720. 
Calyx four or five-toothed. Corol four or five-petalled. 
Germ from two to five-celled ; cells from one to two seed- 
ed, attachment interior. Berry superior, few-seeded. 
Embryo inverse, without perisperm. 
1. L. bilocularis. R. 
Shrubby, armed. Leaves elliptic, emarginate, glossy. 
Flowers axillary, and terminal, subsessile, decandrous. 
Germ and berries two-seeded. — 
A very ramous, well armed, rigid shrub, very like Li- 
monia monophylla, but always smaller; a native of Coro- 
mandel. Flowers in June; the seed ripens in September. 
~ Spines axillary, solitary, long, strong and sharp. Leaves 
alternate, short-petioled, reflexed, elliptic, somewhat 
crenulate, emarginate, firm and glossy, abounding in 
Minute cells, and odorous like the leaves of the orange, 
&c. when bruised ; about an inch and a halflong, and three 
quarters of an inch broad. Stipules axillary, solitary, by 
‘the base of the spines, subulate. Flowers axillary and 
terminal, in little, subsessile clusters, small, pure white. 
Bractes minute, subulate. —— eter 2 five -tooth- 
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