108 DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Schrebera, 
3. C. dichotoma. R. xainw 
Shrubby, dichotomous. Leaves cuneiform-lanceolar, re- 
curved, entire. Racemes axillary ; pedicels three-flowered. 
Native place Coromandel. The Asiatic synonima are un- 
certain. Flowering time in the Botanic garden the month of _ 
March. 
Trunk short; bark dark ash-coloured, with many, elevat- 
ed, lighter coloured specks. Branches dichotomous through- 
out, very numerous; height of the shrabs in the Botanic 
garden, about seven feet in seven years. Leaves opposite, 
short-petioled, broad-cuneiform, lanceclar, entire, rather ob- 
tuse; surfaces smooth, texture hard; three inches long by 
one broad, Racemes axillary, solitary, scarcely half the 
length of the leaves. Pedicels sub-opposite, diverging, 
three-flowered. Flowers small, white, inodorous, Calyx four- 
parted ; segments ovate, obtuse, villous. Corol, the segments 
can scarcely be said to be united at the base, except by the 
filaments, which are inserted on the bases of two, and in that” 
manner form two pair of segments; they are nearly exact, 
taper a litile, and have their margins mach incurved, Fila-— 
menis two, short, Anthers large, with bifid apex. Germ 
four-sided, ovate, two-celled, with two ovula in each attach- 
ed to the middle of the partition, Style short. Stigma ob- 
scurely two-lobed. Drupe superior, oval, or short obovate, 
size of a black currant, succulent, when ripe purple, one-cell- 
ed. Nut obovate, rather thin, and tender, marked with four 
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ribs from the apex to the base, with four small, imperfect : 
ones between, one-celled. Seed solitary, conform to the nut... 
' Integument single, thin, and tender. Perisperm none. Em- 
bryo inverse, Cotyledons conform to the seed, Radicle pa- : 
tellitorm, su ai peas 
SCHREBERA. R. 
| Calye bilabiate. Corol salver-shaped. Capsule superior, 
bmate, two-celled, two-valved, Seeds several, =e if ES 
