Johma, TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, : 169 
flowered. Flowers small, deep greenish orange colour. Calyx 
of five round, villous margined, minute leaflets. Petals 
round, sessile, with the margins recurved, #ilaments no 
other than the three, short, triangular segments of the fleshy 
urceolate 1 nectary, elevating the three, large, twin anther even 
with the stigma. Germ above, conical; three-celled, with two 
ovula in each, attached to the axis. Style scarcely any ; stig- 
maacute, Berry size of a crab apple, round, smooth, dull- 
red. Pulp in considerable quantity, white, of a soft, tough, 
gelatinous consistence, and eaten by the natives. Seeds two, 
or three, separated by a thick partition of pulp ; transversely 
oblong; flat on the inside, convex on the exterior, Integu- 
ments single, spongy, brown. Perisperm none. Embryo con- 
sisting of two equal cotyledons, conform to the seed, and un- 
til vegetation begins, so firmly, and closely united, that they 
seem to be of one entire piece. Radicle small, lodged at the 
umbilicus, relative, centripetal. 
2. J. coromandeliana. R, 
Leaves opposite, serrulate, polished. Calyx five-toothed, 
Petals unguiculate. 
A small, strageling tree, or rather a large climbing shrub, 
a native of forests and mountains of Coromandel. 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oval, smooth, shining, : 
sometimes most slightly serrulate; about three inches long, 
and one and a half broad. Peduncles axillary, several, bow- 
ing, one-flowered. Calyx inferior, one-leaved, five-cleft. Pe- 
~ tals five, clawed, round, or oval, spreading. Nectary alarge 
globular, fleshy receptacle, elevating the stamens and pistil. 
Filaments three, spreading, shorter than the petals, inserted 
into the top of the nectary round the germ. © neha” small, 
