Morinda, ; PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. BAT 
the anthers. Berry, rather drupe, aggregate, ovate-oblong ; 
surface very unequal, size of alarge mulberry, Seeds or nuts 
regularly four to’ each proper berry’ or drupe of the com- 
pound fruit, obliquely wedge-shaped ; three-celled, two of 
them empty, the third with a single seed, as accurately de- 
scribed and figured by Gertner in Morinda citrifolia. . _ 
- Obs, This. plant is cultivated about Nagpore as the other 
species are in various, other: parts of India, and for the same 
’ purpose, (see Asiat, Res, iv, 35—44.) 
6. M. angustifolia. R. 
Shrubby, erect. Leaves opposite to each other or to a 
peduncle, lanceolar, bullate. Heads solitary. Flowers nu- 
merous. Anthers concealed deep within the tube; stigma 
exsert. Berries distinct, on a glomerate receptacle, succulent, 
four-seeded, 7 
_ An erect, thinly branched shrub, was found at Chittagong 
by Dr. Buchanan, and from thence sent to the Botanic gar- 
den ‘at Caleutta’i in 1798, where it blossonis in March, and 
the seéds ripen in May. — 
Trink straight, with a few erect branches. Bark light 
ash-coloured ; height of the whole plant about four or five 
feet, Leaves opposite, or single when a peduncle occupies 
the place of the other, sub-sessile, recurved, lanceolate, bal- 
late, smooth, entire, about six inches long and less than two 
wide. ‘Stipules opposite, sub-cordate, interfoliaceous, united 
into'a ring and remaining long after their respective leaves 
drop. Peduncles solitary, short, seemingly terminal when 
they begin to blossom, but soon after the brancblet shoots out 
from between each peduncle and its respective opposite leaf, 
which marks their proper situation | to be oppositifolius. 
Heads. solitary, globular, many, viz, from fifty toa hundred- 
flowered. Flowers. ‘pure white, in size and shape like those 
of the common ; - Jasmine, Calyx. merely an almost entire, 
marginal ring round the base of the tube of the corol. Corel 
fannel-shaped, Filamenis short, inserted rather below. the 
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