Posoqueria, | PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA,) —_~ 715° 
to shape and size a very good representation of the berry, 
but to render it exact, the ealyeine segments, and the recep- 
tacles of the seeds must be added. ‘The figures are too small 
for dumetorum growing in exactly the same spot, and with 
the same management. In the Botanic garden at Caleutta, 
in twelve years, this is a tall slender shrub with very slender 
drooping branches, and a trunk not thicker than a man’s 
wrist, whereas dumetorum of the same age has grown to bea 
stout, rigid, small tree, with a trank two inches and a halfin 
circumference, at four feet above the ground. 
Trunk straight, from three to four feet high. Branches 
numerous, with the extreme divisions long, slender, and 
_ drooping ; tender shoots a little hairy. Spines axillary, oppo- 
site, horizontal, straight, slender, but hard, stiff, and sharp. 
Leaves on the young shoots opposite, on the old ones fasci- 
cled, ‘short-petioled, from cuneiform-oblong to round, from 
one to two inches long, by about one broad, Stipules trian- 
gular, acute, &c, as in the order, Flowers solitary from the. 
old axills under the spines, with or without leaves, short-pe- 
duncled, middle-sized, white and fragrant. Calyx with a 
short, rather hairy, cylindric tube, dnd five-parted border, 
all permanent. Coro/, outside sericeous. Tube very little 
longer than the calyx, swelled near the base, and there shut — 
with « dense circle or valve of white hairs, pointing upwards, - 
Border of five, obovate, spreading segments, which are im- 
bricated in the bud. Filaments, scarcely any. Anthers fili- 
form, without the tube. Germ turbinate, two-celled, with 
many ovula in each, attached to two peltate receptacles aris-_ 
ing from the centre of the partition. Style rather longer than 
the tube of the corol, swelled near the middle. Stigma large, | 
roundish, elammy, apex two-lobed. Berry the size of a nut- 
meg, nearly round, somewhat rugose, pulpy, crowned with 
the entire eallyx, two-celled, Seeds numerous, small, eral, 
Ratienetl.” sa tes oe and Peoted as in the other pte 
