Rhamnius. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 605 
with ash-colour and brown, that of the young shoots smooth 
and green, Leaves alternate, rarely sub-opposite, short-pe- 
tioled, reclinate, oblong-ventrivose, serrate, pretty smooth on 
both sides; from one to three inches long, and from half an 
-inchto aninch broad. Stipules petiolary, ensiform, ciliate, base 
permanent, Peduncles from the scales which embrace the 
base of the young shoots, and axillary, generally tern, slen- 
der, one-flowered. Flowers very small, yellow. Calyx campa- 
nulate, more generally four than five-cleft. Corol no other 
than the little scales of the genus, which are:here very imper- 
fect. Filaments four or five, as there are divisions in the 
border of the calyx, small. .4uthers often imperfect. Germ 
two or three-lobed, ovate, smooth, from two to three-celled, 
with one ovulum in each, attached to the lower and inner ane 
gle of its cell. Style short. Stigma two or three-cleft; 
segments recurved, BOS ELGG: 
It differs from R. catharticus; the only species known to 
me which it approaches i in having a two or three-cleft stig- 
ma, with just as many lobes, cells, and seeds as in the germ, 
consequently the number of seeds in the berry can never ex- 
ceed the contents of the germ, it cannot therefore be catharti- 
cus, which has a four-cleft stigma, and four-seeded berry. 
4. R. lucidus. R. 
- Sub-arboreous, armed with short, pyitedle and solitary, 
seal aculei, Leaves opposite, from round to oblong, 
emarginate, entire, polished and firm, Peduncles iztHadgs 
short, from two to four-flowered. Berries gintinles, general- 
. ly two-seeded. : a8 
A ‘small, very” ramous free, with faxepaiati and 'strage 
gling, some what scandent branches ; a native of Mauritius, 
It is very: nearly allied to R. circumscissus, the chief differ- 
ence is in the leaves — entire and retuse, or emarginate 
in a this species. — 
