Carissa. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 687 
in the leaves, oblong, spreading. Cymes opposite, axillary, 
long-peduncled, twice two-forked. Peduncles round, a little 
inflected, from three to four inches long. Bractes many, li- 
near, obtuse, caducous. Flowers sessile, from fifteen to twen- 
ty on the cyme, large, white, and exquisitely fragrant, par- 
taking much of the fragrance of cloves. Calyx cup-shaped, 
entire, permanent. Corol ; tube cylindric, an inch and a halt 
long. Throat woolly. Border from six to nine-cleft.  Fila- 
ments none, Anthers.as many as there are divisions in the bor- 
der of the corol, linear, within the mouth of the tube. Germ 
inferior. ‘Sty/e a little shorter than the tube. Stigma nearly 
globose. Pericarp a dry drupe, nearly globose, pretty 
smooth, inwardly of a fibrous, woody texture, containing as 
many curved cells as there were anthers, or divisions in the 
border of the coro]. Seeds one in each od much — 
concave part of the curvature outward: en 
Obs. 1 have at various times examined many hundreds of 
the flowers of this tree, and never found any that were herma- 
phrodite. It agrees better in habit and in most other respects, 
the seed vessels excepted, with Gardenia than with any net 
genus I have met with, 
CARISSA. Schreb. gen. ON. 413. P 
Calyx five-toothed. Corol funnel-shaped. Germ superior, 
two-celled ; cells two to four-seeded; attachment interior, 
Berry two-celled, few-seeded. — inverse, and fur- 
” nished with a perisperm, aapitia 
nC. = Chrandil, ‘Witla. spec. i. 1219, Roxb, Corom. 77. 
‘Sub-arboreous. Thorns often two-forked. Leaves ellip- 
tic, obtuse, smooth. Corymbs terminal, few-flowered. Germ 
 eight-seeded. 
Avinga, Krishna-pakphula, and Sanscrit aames'See with 
atic Res, iv. 263. e aba 
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