Ardisia. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 579 - 
one cell only can be detected. Cortex rather hard and brit- 
tle; colour from a bright yellow to a dirty looking mixture 
of yellow and rough brown. Pulp gelatinous and yellow. 
Seeds from two to twelve, orbicular, much flattened as in 
the Nux-vomica, peltate, nearly an inch broad. Integuments 
two; the exterior®one thin, but tough, and most densely 
clothed with soft, short hairs, like the softest velvet; the in- 
terior one a very thin brown membrane. Perisperm oti 
to the seed, united round the margins, the middle free, resem- 
bling two cotyledons, horny. Embryo straight, much small- 
er than the perisperm, and lodged close to the umbilicus, 
which may be readily known by the hair being longer at that 
part, forming a tuft round it. Cotyledons cordate, three- 
nerved, Radicle oval, pointing to the umbilicus, (centripetal.) 
SERISSA.. Juss. 
Corol one-petalled, funnel-shaped ; throat esti segments 
of the border su barisloligse Berry oben two-seeded. 
1, s. s fetid Willd. sp. i. 1061. . 
Dysoda fasiculata, Louriero Cochin Ch. 181. 
~Byyeium japonicum, Thunb. Jap. 93. t. 17. 
Lycium fetidum, Linn, suppl. 150. 
Lycium indicum. Retz. Obs. ii. p. 12. 
Introduced into our gardens in India from China, which 
accounts for the natives having no name for it. In the Bota- 
nie garden at Calcutta it blossoms the whole year round, but 
never eamelec © fruit; the flowers anal geen, Seahiae 
metrics heey 
: “ARDISIA. oe N. 1735. cacti: 
Calyx fiverleaved. Corol hypocrateriform. | eck sips’ 
rior, one-celled, one-seeded ; attachment inferior. Stigma 
subulate. Barry superior, one-seeded, Embryo transversely : 
Serpentine in an ample perisperm, 
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