408 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Gastonia. 
Petioles often as long as the leaves; base somewhat 
sheathing with one bidentate, acute, stipulary process 
on the inside ; from thence to the thickened incurved apex 
columnar, and armed with small prickles; which are 
more numerous about the apex, and ramentaceous, Pa- 
nicles axillary and terminal, composed of a few, long-pe- 
duncled, simple wmbellets; the whole much shorter 
than the leaves. Involucres a few, ensiform, feruginous 
scales. Bractes solitary at the division of the panicles, 
sheathing, tapering, acute, feruginous. Flowers numer 
ous, pretty large, white. Calyx superior, small, with a sub- 
truncate margin, being only obscurely marked with from 
eight to ten denticles, clothed on the outside with meally 
feruginous down. Petals from eight to ten, generally ten, 
lanceolate, spreading. Filaments from eight to ten, gene- 
rally ten, alternate with the petals, and about the same 
length, or rather longer. Anthers of two very distinct 
linear-oblong lobes, which separate more at the base 
Germ turbinate, from eight to ten-celled, with one ovula 
in each cell, attached to the top of the axis, Style short, 
conic, from eight to ten grooved, permanent. Stigma con- 
cave, with its margin marked with as many elevations, 
as there are cells in the germ, Berry or capsule, nearly 
round,crowned with the remaining calyx, the size of a nut- 
meg, somewhat mealy, thin, and of a soft ligneous tex- 
ture, from eight to ten-celled, evalvular (never, by a0Y 
mode yet observed, opening spontaneously.) Seed soli- 
tary, conform to the cell, consequently very thin, parti- 
cularly the inner edge. Perisperm conform to the 
Embryo inverse. Cotyledons two, lanceolate. Radlicle 
optong, ett: oe cad 
~ 2.G. sasiiro oides, R. 
Unarmed. Leaves simple, 
A native of the Moluccas, and nearly allied to Rom 
phius’s Sasuru or Pseudo-sandalum, vol. 2. ¢, 12. Here’ ethe 
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