690 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Carissa, 
size of a French bean, two-celled, with two seeds in each, 
Seeds, perisperm and embryo as in C. Carandas. 
3. C, villosa, R. 
Shrubby, tender parts villous. Leaves from broad-lan- 
ceolate to oblong-acute. Flowers terminal, subtern, or se- 
ven. Germ four-seeded, (two in each cell.) 
Several plants of this shrub have been long cultivated in 
the Botanic garden at Calcutta, but from whence, or how they 
got into the garden, has never been ascertained. Flowering 
time the same as the other species, viz. during the warmest 
time of the year, March, April, and May. This species 
seems perfectly distinct, and has much less to recommend it 
than either Carandas, or diffusa, In most respects it agrees 
pretty well with Vahl’s description of C. edulis. The follow- 
ing description will, however, point out some difference. 
Siem rather weak, and leaning considerably, soon divid- 
ing into several, rather slender, dichotomous, ‘flexuose 
branches. Bark of the ligneous parts spongy, and deeply 
cracked ; that of the young shoots villous. Thorns opposite, 
at the forks of the branches, and in all other parts at every 
second, straight, strong, very sharp, and less frequently 
compound than in the other two species just mentioned. 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, and broad-lanceo- — 
late, acuminate, soft with down, particularly while young, — 
from one to two inches long, and rarely more than one broad. 
rules small, and only present where the spines are. Flow~ 
are térnial, tern, or twice tern, small, white. Calyx ; seg- 
ments lanceolate, acute, villous. Tube of the corol a little 
curved, swelled near the mouth. Border of five, linear-lan- 
ceolate, acute segments. Stamina lodged in the swelling of 
the tube. Germ conic, two-celled, with two ovula in each, 
attached to the partition, Style shorter than the tube. Stig- 
poh evilloms, bidentate ae —— nina the 
