528 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, ' Seevola, 
whole plant about five or six feet. Leaves alternate, sub-ses- 
sile, long-obovate, with margins entire, apex circular, smooth, 
shining green on both sides ; from three to six inches long. Ia 
the axill of each is found a little tuft of delicate white wool. 
Peduncles axillary, solitary, once, twice, or thrice dichoto- 
mous, the whole not above one-fourth the length of the leaves. 
Pedicels clavate, round, and smooth. Bractes opposite, small, 
conical, Flowers white, slightly fragraut.. Calyx may be 
called five-leaved ; leaflets rather remote, erect, or recurved, 
subulate, permanent. Corol one-petalled. Tube five or six 
times longer than the calyx, split its whole length on the side 
next to the branch, villous on the inside and shaggy with fi- 
laments round the mouth, Border of five, oblong, unilateral 
segments, with membranaceous, curled borders. /iiaments 
from the receptacle, erect till the flowers expand, then be- 
coming variously curled back round the base of the tube of 
the corol. Anthers oblong, crowned, before the ex pansion 
of the corol they adhere slightly to each other, round the 
mouth of the stigma. Germ inferior, obovate, torose, two-cell- 
ed, with one seed in each, attached to the very bottom of the 
partition. Style length of the tube, pretty thick, recurved. 
Stigma large, funnel-shaped, very hairy on the outside, and 
ciliate. Drupe nearly round, size of a small gooseberry, when 
ripe white, and torulose, Nut two-celled, dark brown, wrin- 
kled ; between it and the white exterior pulpy covering there 
is a senate actmet; softish cartilaginous coat. Seed one in 
ch cell. Em ) lodged in a considerable portion of whitish 
albumen. Cotyledons two, oval. Radiele inferior, shorter than 
the lobes. 
2. S. oppositifolia, R. a ad 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, i dat rip smooth Pe 
_ duneles axillary, few-flowered, " 
: eK! native of the Moluccas; a slender shrubby specie very 
