700 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Alyzxia: 
Gynopogon stellatum. Forst, Prod. n. 47. Willd, spec. i. - 
1221? 
Pulassarium. Rumph. Amb. v. p. 32. t. 20. 
A native of Amboyna, and from thence brought to the 
Botanic garden at Calcutta in 1798, where it thrives well, 
‘blossoms about the close of the rains in September, and ri- 
pens its fruit in the cool season. 
Trunk scarcely any, but many, long, twining, straggling, 
or scandent branches as they meet with support. Bark of 
the ligneous parts ash-coloured, of the young shoots smooth, 
| deep green. Every part abounds in a milky juice. Leaves 
tern, or quatern, short-petioled, oblong, or oblong-lanceo- 
late, entire, of a deep shining green on both sides; with very 
slender, divereine: parallel veins; length from thiee’td six 
inches. Stij-zles, a small scale between the petioles. Flow- 
ers many, small, pure white, collected in small, for the most 
part, terminal, cymose fascicles, Bractes short, cordate, ri- 
gid. Calyx deeply five-parted. Corol ; tube swelled at the 
base, and a little below the mouth where the stamens are_ 
lodged, divisions of the border nearly round, in the bud im- 
pitched! Filaments short. Anthers sagittate, just within 
the mouth of the tube. Germ two-lobed, and with care se- 
parable without violence, each lobe one-celled, and contaim- 
ing three or four ovula, attached to the corol. Stigma slight- 
ly two-lobed. Berries two, when both prove fertile, which 
is rarely the case, short-pedicelled, oval, size of a small cher- 
ry, smooth, with a groove on the inside from the blunt-point- 
ed apex to the base, when ripe yellowish. Pulp i in very” 
small quantity ; one-celled. Ihave frequently found pro- 
liferous berries, that is a second, on a short pedicel, growipgs 
from the apex of the first, as in the genus Anosa, Seed con- 
form to the berry. Integuments single, thin but hard and 
elastic, approaching to nuciform ; from the middle of the i in- 
side a vertical lamina projects sab tiaras into the seed, then 
‘oceeds in opposite directions, | like the rece} Y- 
onia (see Gert, sem, ii, t, m4) to these the 
