388 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Pyrostria, 
and very fine sub-opposite nearly transversal nerves which 
communicate with each other in sub-marginal arches, Pe- 
tioles about two lines long, channelled, Stipules adpressed. 
lanceolate, as broad as the interstices between the insertion ) 
of the two opposite leaves, tapering into a subulate point 
which generally exceeds the petioles in length. Corymb 
small, supported by a pair of very short leaves, consisting of 
twice or thrice trichotomous, reddish, pubescent peduncles, 
with opposite linear, subulate bractes under each division, 
having a stipuliform, fimbriated process between their _ 
bases. Pedicels ternate or fascicled, two or three lines long, 
with three pairs of reddish fleshy subulate scales, the upper- 
most adpressed to the calyx. Calyx very small, oblong, 
reddish, with erect subulate teeth; at the bottom, within, 
there is a series of fleshy, subulate, withering and sphacelat- 
ed cilie as in the family of Asclepiadee and Apocynee. © 
Corolla white ; tube slender, half an inch long ; limb spread- 
ing, equalling the tube, with linear oblong-faleate, slightly 
pubescent lacinie. Anthers linear and long, the base bifid 
and ending in two whitish processes, Filaments short, exsert-) 
ed, Style clavate. Stigma two-lobed, subulate, spreading, 
elevated above the mouth of the corolla, Berry as large as 
a marrow-fat pea, red, smooth, crowned with the four subu-- 
late, erect teeth of the calyx. Seeds cup-shaped, hemisphe- 
bighe veel ¢ Sie ak ag Ss 
ae. 
" PYROSTRIA. uss. gen. ed. Us 190, 
Cage firur-toothed, Corol with cylindric tebe, and fouls 
cleft.border. Drupe inferior, with as far as eight, pes 
ed nuts, 
1. P. hevasperma, R, | Me as ee 
Leaves pppoe short-petioled, oblong, pay entire. 
Corymbs axillary, and nine within, the on idate, hairy, sti 
