Phillyrea. DIANDRIA MONOGYNTA, 101 
A native of China and from thence introduced into the Bo- 
tanic garden near Calcutta, before 1793. Now, 1802, they 
have grown to be beautiful small trees, of from fifteen to 
twenty feet in height, clothed almost to the ground, with nu- 
merous, opposite, spreading, and drooping branches, covered 
with smooth, ash-coloured bark. 
~ Leaves opposite, petioled, drooping, ovate-oblong, sides 
incurved, entire, leathery, smooth on both sides, above a shin- 
ing deep green, underneath glaucous, with two or more ob- 
scure glands near their base : from four to five inches long, 
and from two to three bread. Petioles short, recurved, chan- 
nelled, Stipulesnone. Panicles terminal from the exterior 
axills, ramifications thereof opposite, and smooth, Flowers 
very numerous, rather small, pure white, somewhat fragrant. 
Bractes minute, caducous,. Calyx obscurely four-toothed. 
Corol one-petalled; tube short; segments linear, revolute, 
smooth. Filaments opposite, inserted into the bottom of 
the tube of the corol, and about as long as the seg- 
ments of its border. Anthers incumbent, Germ above, but 
lodged deep in the bottom of the calyx, two-celled, with two 
ovula in each. Style short, Stigma clavate, entire. Drupe 
size of a —_ French bean, obliquely obovate, smooth, ge- 
nerally o1 Nut solitary, with the rudiment of a‘se- 
cond, but I never saw more than one come to maturity; 
pointed at the base, furrowed on the outside, covered with a 
thick, somewhat indurated envelope, though scarcely hard 
enough to be called a nut.- Embryo inverse, lodged ina — 
pearl-coloured amygdaline perisperm. 
Obs. Ligustrum japonicum. ‘Thunb, Flor. Japan. p. 17. 
J. 1. is a tolerably good representatien of this tree ; but the 
one-seeded nut, short style, and clavate stigma of pat — 
will not allow me to think-they ‘ean: be:the same: ta 
sds s-oblong, entire, acuminate. — Ponioles tere 
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