PINCKNEYA. 



PINCKNEYA. 



Calyx 5-parted, the fifth lobe expanded into a coloured leaf. 

 Corolla with a cylindrical tube, and a 5-cleft limb, the lobes of 

 which are recurved and spreading. Stamens inserted at the 

 base of the tube, exserted ; anthers oblong. Capsule roundish, 

 compressed, 2-celled, dehiscing through the cells. Seeds sur- 

 rounded by a wing, which is emarginate at the base. 



863. P. pubens Mich. fl. bor. amer i. 103. t. 13. Elliott 

 sketch, i. 268. DC. prodr. iv. 366. — C. caroliniana Poir. diet. 

 vi. 40. — Wet boggy soils in South Carolina and Florida, along 

 the sea coast. 



A large shrub, 15-20 feet high; young branches downy. Leaves 

 lanceolate, slightly acuminate, hairy, but shining above, downy beneath; 

 petioles about an inch long, downy. Panicles terminal and axillary, 

 composed of 5 flowered fasicles. The large leaf of the calyx veiny, 

 and rose-coloured ; sometimes 2 lobes are enlarged. Corolla downy, 

 the tube dull green, the border purple, with obtuse segments. — Bark 

 febrifugal, and used in Carolina as a substitute for Cinchona. 



Tribe II. Gardenie^e. 



Fruit baccate, 2-celled, or by abortion 1 -celled. Cells many- 

 seeded. Albumen Jleshy. Seeds not winged. Trees or shrubs. 

 Leaves opposite. Stipules betiveen the petioles. DC. 



RANDIA. 



Limb of calyx 5-lobed. Corolla salver-shaped, with a short 

 tube, and a 5- parted limb. Anthers inclosed, sessile, within the 

 throat. Stigmas 2 thick. Berry nearly dry, crowned by the 

 calyx, corticated, 2-celled, many-seeded. Seeds fixed to the 

 central placenta, imbedded in pulp, and imbricated downwards. 

 Spiny shrubs, with conspicuous flowers. 



864. R. dumetorum Lam. ill. t. 156. f. 4. DC. prodr.iv.385. 

 — Canthium coronatumZam. diet. i. 602. Gardenia dumetorum 

 Retz. obs. ii. 14. Roxb. corom. t. 136. Gardenia spinosa Linn, 

 suppl. 164. Randia spinosa Blume bjjdr. 981. Posoqueria du- 

 metorum Roxb. fl. hid. i. 714. — Common on the coast of Coro- 

 mandel. 



A thorny branching shrub or small tree. Leaves oval, rather blunt* 

 cuneate at the base, smooth. Flowers very sweet-scented, sessile, 

 solitary, mostly terminal. Calyx with oblong lobes rather shorter than 

 the villous corolla. Fruit smooth, yellow, resembling a small crab- 

 apple, firm, and fleshy. Seeds oval, numerous, lying in mucus. — The 

 fruit when bruised and thrown into water intoxicates, or even kills fish, 

 which are not considered less wholesome in consequence. In the form 

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