Tzora, TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 377 
flower the whole year but chiefly a the oe it is 
highly ornamental. eal girlie: 
Stem none, but branches innumerable, which divide ach 
and spread close on the ground, forming a large hemisphe- 
rical bush, Bark of the large branches dark brown, and ra- 
ther scabrous; that of the young shoots, smooth, and green: 
Leaves opposite, stem-clasping, oblong, obtuse, with a small 
point, entire, firm, smooth on both sides. Stipules interfoli- 
aceous, annular, with a subulate process on each side. | Co- 
rymbs terminal, crowded, divisions many, but short, Flowers 
numerous, when they first open scarlet, changing afterwards 
to crimson, | Bractes opposite, conic, acute, Calyx superior, 
four-toothed, coloured, permanent, Corod with a very long 
slender. tube ; segments of the border four, ovate, rather ob- 
tuse, spreading. Filaments four, short, inserted without the 
mouth of the tube, spreading, anthers linear, spreading. 
Germ two-celled, with one seed in each, attached to the mid- 
dle of the partition. Style length of the tube of the corol. 
Stigma bifid, Berry spherical, size of a large pea, smooth, 
fleshy, when ripe purple, two-celled, Seed solitary, oval, 
convex on the outside flat, with a deep pit on the inside. In- 
teguments two; exterior nuciform; inner membranaceous. 
Perisperm conform to the seed, cartilaginous. Embryo erect, 
curved, nearly as Jong as the perisperm. Cotyledons reni- 
form, cordate. Radicle cylindric, longer than the eotyledons, 
inferior. 
_ Obs, This species is nearly allied to I. coccinea, but differs 
in the following respects : 
Ist. This is a toa ramous eee 98 ot ne 0 
so, and nearly erect. - =’ 
2d. In this the leven aro nem claaping, and obtuse ‘in 
that sessile and acute. ? 
3d. In this Adrsogmenniol: the bore eof uceiel are ovate, 
and rather obtuse 5 in that ovate-laniceolate, sadestaieds we 
lastly, 
