Lonicera,. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 537 
China, I presume, as there are some plants in the Botanic gar- 
den brought thence. Flowering time the beginning of the 
‘hot season ; fruit ripe in three or four months afterwards, 
Trunk irregular, which with the branches is armed with 
strong, straight, opposite, or three-fold thorns. Leaves op- 
posite, and three-fold, short-petioled, ovate-oblong, entire, 
smooth, from three to four inches long. Stipules opposite, 
and three-fold, within the leaves as in Gardenia, Flowers 
axillary, fascicled on a common short peduncle, with proper, 
longer pedicels, small, of a pale greenish colour. Calyz five-_ 
toothed, Corol one-petalled. . Tube sub-globular ; mouth 
shut with much long, white hair ; border generally five-part- 
ed, spreading. Filaments five, very short, inserted into the 
mouth of the tube of the corol. Anthers small, cordate, Germ 
inferior, turbinate, four or five-celled, with one ovudum in 
each, attached to the axis a little above the middle, - Style 
so long as to elevate its large glandular four or five-lobed 
stigma just above the anthers. Berry or rather drupe round, 
turbinate, size of a cherry, smooth, when ripe yellow, suc= 
culent, and edible. Seeds four or five, obliquely oblong, in- 
ner edge narrower and straight. Integuments two ; exterior a 
hard, dark-coloured nut ; interior membranaceous. Perisperm 
conform to the seeds, amygdaline. Limbryo inverse, a little 
curved. Cetyledons scarcely so long as the radicle, lanceo- 
late. adiele columnar, superior. 
Obs, The fruit is eaten by the natives, . Its Savers come . 
exceedingly near to those of my Canthium parviflorum, as 
does also the whole habit of the plant. ) 
Corol one-petalled, shy Berry nero, tn-cellad, 
mannan) : 3 
edie ~ eon ae “Hardwicke is in lens rei vi. 3516 
“Sheabhy. _ Leaves petioled, elliptic, acute, entire, villous, 
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