Posoqueria, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA 717 
very conspicuously in the structure, and disposition of the 
branches, in the shape of the fruit, and in the border of the 
calyx — poomess 
5. P. fragrans. Kin. i 
_ Shrubby, armed. . Leaves long-obovate. ius numer- 
ous, collected in small, simple, terminal umbellets. Berries 
from eight to ten-seeded. | 
Gardenia fragrans. Kon, Mss. 
Telinga, Pedally. 
- With P. dumetorum it is a common, rigid, shrubby sbicbas ; 
it seems also to delight in a poor soil, and like it is armed 
with strong sharp thorns. Brought into a good soil these 
almost totally disappear. It flowers about the begins 
the rains in June and July. 
_ Leaves opposite on the young shoots, fascicled 0 on the old 
ones, short-petioled, oblong; on both sides are smooth and 
glossy hollow glands in the axills of the large nerves; border 
hairy ; from two to three inches long, by one and a half broad, 
Stipules comecting the petioles, acute. Umbellets simple, 
small, terminal, or from small tuberosities on the branchlets, 
bearing many, small, white, fragrant flowers. ..Peduncles 
short. Bractes, a small, acute one at the base of each pedi- 
cel, Calyx five-toothed, toothlets acute, Corol, throat hairy, 
Border always five-cleft, divisions acute. Stamens and pis- 
tillum as in the genus. Berry the size of a small cherry, 
red, two-celled. Seeds from eight to twelve in both cells, 
kidney-shaped, orange-coloured. 
Obs. 1 know of no use this tree is put to, except seanke 
fences, for which ‘it is. well adapted, particularly when it is 
the produce of a poor barren soil, it is then well armed with 
strong thorns, The flowers like those of all the nai are de- 
ey et: | 
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