378° DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Limonia: 
ed. Petals five, oblong. Nectary a crenulate, white 
fleshy cup, round the lower half of the germ. Filaments 
ten, alternately shorter, lanceolar, thick, and distinct, 
inserted between the nectary and petals. Anthers ovate. 
Germ superior, two, very rarely three-lobed ; two, rarely 
three-celled with one ovula in each, attached to the mid- 
dle of the partition; styleshort and thick. Stigma large, 
nearly round, and clammy. Berries spherical, of the size 
and appearance of a ripe s/oe, succulent, two-celled. Seed 
solitary. Integument single, thin, and clear. Perisperm 
none. Embryo inverse, toes Cotyledons conform to th 
seed, 
2. L. monophylla. Willd. 2. 571. Corom. pl. 1. N. 83. 
-Shrubby, armed with straight spines, Leaves simple. 
Nectary. campanulate, antheriferous. 
Trichilia spinosa, Willd. 1.2. p. 554, 
Limonia pumila, Burm. zeyl. 143. t. 65. 
Mal-Naregam. Rheed. Mal. 4, t. 12. 
Teling. Adivi-nima, (wild lime.) 
This plant is a native of our large, extensive forests 
over the Coast of Coromandel, where it often grows to be 
a small tree, though oftener found in the state of a Targe_ 
shrub. Flowering time about the rainy season. 
Trunk irregular. Bark pretty smooth, of a greenish 
ash colour, Branches numerous, very irregular, and very 
rigid. Thorns single, axillary, yery strong and sharp ; ’ 
in some plants entirely wanting, Leaves alternate, short- 
petioled, oblong, emarginate, smooth, firm, two or three 
inches long, and one or one anda half broad. Sti 
pules subulate. Racemes axillary, short. Bractes subU- 
late, small. Calyx from four to five-parted, permanent. 
Corol four or five-petalled ; petals equal, oblong, expand- 
ing. Nectary cylindric, mouth ten-toothed; teeth alternate- 
ly larger. Filaments none ; ; authers resting on the teeth of 
the nectary. Germs EULER, globular, generally four- 
