714 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Posoqueria, 
or, in a good soil, small trees, on the coast ; there is scarcely 
an uncultivated spot where it is not to be found. Flowering 
time the beginning of the wet season. 
“Dr. Kénig’s description of this shrab, published in the 
Supplementum Plantarum of the younger Linneus is good 
and full. 
_ Germ two-celled, each containing many ovula attached to 
a crescent-shaped receptacle in each cell, which is vertical- 
ly attached to the middle of the partition, Berry round, 
smooth, when ripe yellow, and much like a small crab apple 
both in size and appearance. Pulp in large quantity, of a 
firm, fleshy texture, two-celled. Seeds numerous, oval and 
oblong, attached as in the germ, and nestling in a quantity 
of gelatinous pulp. Perisperm conform to the seed. Hm- 
bryo more than half the length of the seed, straight. Cotyle- 
dons roundish. Radicle cylindric, length of the cotyledons, 
vaga, 
It is avighayen for fences, and fire-wood. The Sinica 
like all the rest of this genus are highly fragrant, but in this _ 
species few in number. 
‘The fruit when ripe, looks like a small yellow apple? if 
bruised and thrown into ponds where there are fish, they are 
soon intoxicated, and seen floating. If this is done during 
the hot season, it is said, the fish generally die, but if — 
the wet or cold season they recover. 
Fishermen sometimes follow this mode to enable them to 
take the fish with more ease. — They are not deemed less 
wholesome from the effects of the fruit. Coceulis Indicus— 
does not grow in those parts, nor is it known or used there _ 
= this Aree pend | 
3. P. nutans, R, os 
“Shrubby, armed, branchlets drooping. Leaves narrow- — 
_ Obovate-oblong. | Flowers solitary. Bets si tse beatae 
ed with pe masire calyx. 
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