710 ~—C PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Posoqueria, 
A. P. longispina, R. 
Arboreous, armed, spines opposite, and alsérnstic horizon: 
tal, Leaves obovate-cuneate, smooth, Flowers solitary, ter- 
minal, and axillary. Calyx smooth, border permanent. 
_ Fruit obovate, smooth, oa 
A native of the coast of Coromandel, Flowering time the 
hot and rainy season, ; 
Trunk ‘straight. Branches numerous, the smaller long, 
slender, spreading, and drooping, a habit which immediately 
distinguishes this species from Kénig’s dumetorum ;_ its 
branches being short and rigidly erect. Spines opposite or 
alternate, decussate, horizontal, straight, strong and sharp ; 
length from one to two inches, Leaves on the young shoots 
opposite, on the old ones in fascicles below the spines, all are 
short-petioled, obovate-cuneate, entire, smooth on both sides; 
size varying, from half an inch to three inches in length. St7- 
pules (examine the very young shoots to find them) within - 
the leaves, subulate, pointed. Flowers solitary, short-pedun- 
cled, generally from the extremities of the little, leaf-bearing 
‘branchlets below the spines, rarely axillary, pretty large, 
pure white, and fragrant. Calyx perfectly smooth, Tube 
cylindric ; border of five, ovate-cordate, permanent segments. 
‘In dumetorum the tube only is permanent. Corol salver- 
shaped. Tube as long as the tube of the calyx, villous on — 
the outside, within, a ring of projecting hairs shuts it up 
about the middle. Border of five, obliquely ovate, s spread- 
ing divisions Filaments none, . Anthers five, linear, aftix- 
ed over the fissures of the border of the corel, and entirely, 
_ without its tube. Style thickened at the middle. Stigma 
erect, two-lobed, Berry obovate (in P. dumetorum round,) 
size of a large nutmeg, smooth, two-celled. Seas siusiiil 
ous, immersed in pulp. 
| Obs, Thunberg’s Gardenia spinosa isa plant Sines 
seen, if it be not Kénig’s dumetorum or this very species 1 
_ have now described, consequently cannot say wherein they 
a differ, ‘ut from demetorum, whieh I know sani it differs 
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