542 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIAg Morinda. 
An elegant small tree, with straight trunk, and numerous, 
decussated, assurgent branches, a position they generally — 
take from the weight of the fruit, and constant exuberant fo- 
liage.. From Pegu it has been introduced into the Botanic 
garden at Calcutta, where it is in constant fruit, and flower 
the whole year. It does not appear to be a native of Bengal, 
nor did I ever meet with it on the coast of Coromandel; but 
the species which I formerly considered as citrifolia is com- 
mon in both countries, and the description and drawings 
thereof were sent to the Honourable the Court of Directors, 
That species, which however is quite distinct, I now call 
tinctoria, as it is the sort most in use for dying. 
~ Bark of young trees, or their trunk, light ash-coloured and 
smooth; young shoots somewhat four-cornered, smooth and 
lucid, Leaves opposite to each other, or to a peduncle, short- 
petioled, from oblong to oval, lucid, entire, rather obtuse ; 
from five to ten inches long, and from three to five broad. 
Stipules large, semi-lunar, entire, smooth, Peduneles solita- 
ry, opposite to a solitary leaf on the upper side of the branch- 
lets, erect, short, cylindric, smooth, each supporting a small 
aggregate head of small white flowers.. Calyx an entire 
margin round the apex of the germ, Coro funnel-shaped ; 
mouth of the tube hairy. Border five-parted, segments lan- 
ceolate, acute. Filaments five, woolly, inserted into the tube 
of the corol, a little above its middle. Anthers linear, erect, 
half hid in the tube. Germs firmly united, single, two-cell- 
ed, each cell containing two ovula, attached to opposite ends 
of the wings of the large, thick, fleshy partition, Style length 
of the tube of the corol. Stigma two-cleft. Berries com- 
pound, size of a pullet’s egg or even longer, obtuse, when 
ripe pale-white, polished, and succulent, as doscriivad — 
aes by Gertner, 
_ Obs, Its roots are employed by lie’ tntioels like those of 
sere ter specie o dye red, 331 
