Cerbera. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 691 
cell, shape various, concave on the inside, convex on the ex- 
terior, Jnteguments single; light brown, and rather rough, 
Perisperm conform to the seed, white, amygdaline. Embryo 
‘inverse, white. Cotyledons roundish, Radicle cylindric, 
length of the cotyledons, superior. 
A. C. axillaris, R. 
Shrubby, armed with simple, opposite, recurved spines. 
. Leaves short-petioled, oblong. Corymbs peduncled, axillary, 
many-flowered. 
A native of the Moluccas. 
CERBERA. Schreb. gen. N. 415. 
Calyx five-parted. Corol funnel-shaped, Germ two-lob- 
ed; lobes two-celled ; cells two-seeded ; attachment interior. 
Diupes superior, one or two singly, one-seeded. Embryo 
inverse, without peri : 
1. €. fraricien. R. 
‘Shrubby, dichotomous, Leaves broad- lanceolar. Corymbs 
terminal. Drupes obliquely urn-shaped, and gaping. 
From Pegu this elegant shrub has been introduced into 
the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where it is in constant blos- 
som. The flower like those of Vinca rosea, but larger, and 
faintly fragrant; it is in fact one of the most ornamental 
- shrubs in the garden: 
Stem short, soon dividing, and sub-dividing into many, 
straight, round, smooth, dichotomous branches Handi branch- 
lets, Leaves opposite, often remote, short-petioled, from ob- 
long to lanceolate, entire, smooth, acuminate, about five or 
six inches Jong, and from two to three broad, Stipules inter- 
foliaceous, acute. Corymbs terminal when they first appear ; 
but long before the whole of the blossoms expand, a branch- 
let shoots forth on each side and places t them in the fork ; di- 
_ visions sub-trichotomous and short. Flowers large, sib 
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