616_ PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Scopolia, 
inches long; perfectly smooth, very glossy and lucid, of a — 
dark green colour above; pallid and shining underneath, 
with a whitish slender rib and a few oblique nerves, the 
lowermost pair of which are opposite; the base rising a little 
above the rib, in consequence of which the leaf appears 
triple-nerved ; veins capillary, transversal, reticulate. Pe- 
tiole slender, a little compressed, channelled, slightly pubes- _ 
cent, about an inch long, Stipules minute, withering, ad- 
pressed, Janceolate, with a broad fleshy base and glandular 
apex. lowers small, yellowish green, fragrant, collected 
in rounded, axillary, ramous fascicles which are shorter than. 
the petals. Peduncles pubescent; bractes very small; pe- 
dicels capillary, two or three times longer than the flower, 
yellowish. Calyx cup-shaped, with five broad, cuspidate, | 
somewhat margined, deciduous dacinie, equalling in length 
the cuneate, fornicate, narrow petals, Vertex of the ovary | 
covered with a broad rugose yellow disc. Style short, 
deeply three-lobed, deciduous, Stigmas convex, scabrous, | 
Capsules round-obovate, about the size of a small gooseber- : 
Ty, pale-brown, its. vertex retuse, its base supported by the 
persistent circularly-truncate bottom of the calyx, three- 
furrowed, three-celled, three-valved. Seeds triangular, with 
gibbous back, ash-coloured, The rest as in C. circumscissa- 
(Rhamnus Linn.) Gert. carp, ii. 110. t. 106. 
r, : ‘ 
ee SCOPOLIA. Smith. : 
Calyx Accintinee Corel pee Gusti sebertorj: 
five-celled; cells two-seeded ; attachment interior, Berry 
five-celled, with generally one seed in each cell, 
— 
1. S, aculeata, Smith, ic, ined, ii, 34, Willd. sp.ic WIS. 
Seandent, armed, Leaves ternate ; leaflets crenulate. 
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