378 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. TIxora, 
4th. The calyx on the fruit is open in thin species, in that 
shut intoa qunichs point. 
3. 1 sileens R. 
- Shrubby. Leaves sub-sessile, lanceolate, acute. Cor sepals 
terminal, highly coloured. Segments of the calyx cordate. 
Tube of the corol long and filiform, with smooth contracted 
mouth; segments lanceolate, and larger than the erect sta- 
mens. Berries two-lobed. . 
_ Flamma sylvarum. een Amb. iv. 105. t. 46% prety 
good, 
» This elegant, highly nvinioel shrub is a native of the 
Moluceas, and from thence was introduced into the Botanic 
garden, where it blossoms most part of the year. - aids 
Trunk short, soon dividing into many straggling .weak 
branches, covered with seach dark-brown bark, . Leaves 
opposite, short-petioled, lanceolate, entire, acute, smooth on 
both sides; from six to eight inches. long, and from ‘one to. 
three broad. Stipules connecting, with an acute point on each: 
side. -Corymbs terminal, composed of short, decussate, high- 
ly coloured branches, and branchlets, supporting numerous, 
short-peduncled, long-tubed, pretty large, scarlet. flowers, 
with the four segments of their border acute, and broad-lan- 
ceolate, stamens erect, Berry two-lobed, size of a marrow-— 
fat pea, smooth, when ripe of a deep purple, two-celled.. 
Seeds solitary, nearly round, convex on the back, with a deep 
cavity on the inside, and from thence attached by a thick — 
short cord to the centre of the partition, _Integuments two, 
the exterior corresponding with what Geertner calls the aril-— 
lus in Coffea, ash-coloured, and firm like parchment; the in- 
ner membranaceous, and darker coloured. . Perisperm con- 
form to the seed, pale blue, and of a soft cartilaginous con-. 
sistence. Embryo erect, one-third shorter than the perisperm, - 
curved, Cotyledons two, cordate, Radicle sub-clavate, in- 
