Posoqueria, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 719 
white when they first expand, becoming yellow by the se- 
cond day, fragrant. Calyx tubular, mouth cut into five, se- 
milunar segments, Corol; tube long and slender; border of. 
five, unequally. lanceolate, spreading segments. Filaments. 
none. Anthers five, linear, attached to the mouth of the tube 
of the corol, Germ inferior, two-celled, with many ovula in 
each, attached to their elevated fleshy receptacle, rising from 
the centre of the partition. Berries the size of common cher- 
ries, when ripe yellow, smooth, fleshy, two-celled. Seeds nu- 
aden: &e. a: as in the genus. 
8. P. floribunda, R. 
Sub-arboreous, armed, Leaves opposite and fascicled, 
obovate, cuneate, Flowers in lateral fascicles ; calyx long- 
er than the tube of the corol, its segments lanceolate. Berries 
ovate-cordate, polished. 
A large, rigid, ramous shrub, or, in a igoal soil, small tree, 
like dinate anative of the coast of Coromandel. Flow- 
ering time April and May, and the seeds ripen immediately 
after the rains, 
Trunk ia ten years old plants in the Botanic garden at 
Calcutta as thick as a man’s leg, but short, soon dividing 
into numerous branches; and straight, stiff branchlets, in 
every direction. Bark ash-coloyred, on the oldest parts 
considerably cracked. Spines axillary, and rarely more than 
one to each pair of leaves; about an inch long, stiff, straight, 
rigid and sharp. Leaves on the tender shoots opposite, on 
the old flower-bearing twig fascicled, round the flower sub- _ 
sessile ; the general form obovate, tapering a good deal to the 
baw; obtampamueesh, from one to two inches long, by one 
wii Stipules as in the order. Flowers short-peduncled, 
generally from four to six produced from each of the small 
lateral, short, scaly spurs, (as they are called by gardeners,) 
of a middling size, and fragrant, when they first expand pure 
white, but soon becoming yellow. Calyx smooth ; tube cy- 
lindric; segments of the border generally five, sub-lanceo- 
