558 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Baeobotrys. 
It appears to differ from Vahl’s B. lanceolata. Symb. i. 
p. 19. ¢. 6. in the leaves being shorter-petioled, and more 
grossly serrate ; as well as in the inflorescence. 
Trunk erect, in plants eight or ten years old_as thick as a 
man’s lee. Branches numerous, exiending down. to the 
ground, straight and nearly erect; Bark smooth, dark. brown, 
general height of the whole plant from eight to twelve feet, 
Leaves alternate, rather short-petioled, ventricose-oblong, ta- 
pering to an acute point, remotely and deeply repand, ser- 
rate, pretty smooth on both sides, and glossy on the upper 
surface, veins large and parallel, from three to six inches long, 
and from one to two and a half broad. Stipules none. Racemes — 
axillary, and terminal, often several together, some of them 
ramous, much shorter than the leaves ; the terminal one gene- 
rally panicled. Flowers numerous, Serine: short-pedicel- 
led, small, pure white, Bractes one at the base of each pedicel, 
and two pressing on the calyx. Calyz single, semi-supera, 
permanent, five-parted, divisions obtuse. Coro/ one-petalled. 
Tube short, somewhat gibbous. Border of five equal, round- 
ish, expanded segments. Filaments short, inserted into the 
tube of the corol, immediately below the middle of the seg- ~ 
ments of the border, incurved, smooth. Anthers cordate, 
converging in form of a dome over the apex of the pistillum. 
Germ semi-inferior, broad-ovate, one-celled, containing nu- 
merous ovula from the bottom of the cell. Style short. Stigma 
tending to be lobate.. Berry inferior, crowned with the per- _ 
calyx, round, smooth, dry, size of a grain of black 
popper bas tela evalvular. Receptacle round-cordate, free, 
attached to the bottom of the cell, as in Primula, Ke, Gert, 
sem. i, 233. t. 50. Seeds numerous, angular, 
2. B. ramentacea. R. 
_Shrubby. Leaves ere lanceolate, acuminate, entire, 
- smooth, . Panicles: terminal, axillary, and lateral, ramentnce- 
ous, Se ries minute, white, succulent, 
doriya is the vernacular name at Silliet, ne ft. 
