Frora. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 381 
rymb and under the calyx subulate. Flowers very numerous, 
pure white, fragrant. Calyx four-cleft to the base, divisions ~ 
long, natrow and acute, Tube of the corol cylindric, very 
slender, three quarters of an inch long; the four segments of 
the border oblong and obtuse. Filaments trom the inner 
edges of the fissures of the border of the corol. Anthers nar- 
row, sagittate. Germ oval, two-celled, with one seed in each, 
attached to the middle of the partition. Stigma of two linear 
- Jobes, elevated considerably above the mouth of the tube. 
Berry round, turbinate, size of a small cherry, when ripe 
bright red, and smooth, two-celled, Seed solitary, round, oval, 
convex on the outside, with a large deep pit on the inner. 
Integuments two; exterior nuciform; imner membranaceous, 
and greenish. Perisperm conform to theseed. Embryo erect, 
curved like the convex seed. Cotyledons reniform, esnectel 
cylindric, length of the cotyledons, inferior. | 
Obs. Vahl’s figure of I. parviflora, Symbol. Bot. iii. t. 52; 
is much like this plant; his description however agrees bet- 
ter with what I have always considered to be his parviflora, 
and which is so labelled in Sir Joseph Banks’s herbarium, 
They differ in the following respects. That (1. parviflora) is 
a tree, this a shrub; in that the leaves are linear oblong with 
a cordate base, of a much firmer texture, and more polished ; 
in this they taper for two-thirds of their length to the base, 
(hence the specific name cuneifolia.) In that the segments 
of the calyx are short and obtuse, in this long and acute. In 
_ that the berries are round and black; in this short, turbinate 
and red. The corymbs also differ exis ley In both hans 
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Eset Leaves: shia wtipeioted lanceoar, Panictes in 
chiate, with remote, diverging branches. - 
oA stout shrub, a native of» Da Rikiatel Boog. In the 
Botanic garden it flowers in March, and the seeds ripen in 
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