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into an acumen, opening at the top by a pore. Ovary oblong, 

 acute. Style a little longer than the stamens. Stigma simple. 

 Berry red, 5-angled, acuminate, composed of a whitish fari- 

 naceous pulp, and containing 5 seeds, each enveloped in a 

 tough fibrous arillus, and in structure the same as the pre- 

 ceding. 



CELASTRUS? BIVALVIS. W.J. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Foliis lanceolatis acuminatis integerrimis, pedunculis later- 

 alibus paucifloris, corollis nullis, capsulis 2-valvibus mono- 

 spermis. 



A shrub, with smooth branches. Leaves opposite, petiolate, 

 lanceolate, acuminate, acute at the base, very entire, very 

 smooth. Stipules none. Peduncles lateral, divaricately di- 

 chotomous, few-flowered, (5-10-flowered.) Bracts small. 

 Calyx 5-parted, bibracteate at the base, laciniae roundish, 

 imbricated. Corolla none. Stamens 5, erect, united beneath 

 into a 5-toothed ring or urceolus: filaments flat: anthers ob- 

 long. Style erect, as long as the stamens. Stigma truncate. 

 Capsule ovate, green, smooth, crowned with the style, 2- 

 valved, 1-celled, 1-seeded : valves opening from the base, and 

 falling off from the seed, which is more persistent, and 

 remains on the peduncle. Seed ovate, contained in a beauti- 

 ful crimson arillus, which is delicately veined. Albumen 

 cartilaginous, conformed to the seed. Embryo erect, central, 

 as long as the albumen. Cotyledons flat, foliaceous, ovate, 

 obtuse. Radicle inferior, obverse to the umbilicus, much 

 shorter than the cotyledons. 



LEUCOPOGON (STYPHELIA) MALAYANUM. W. J. 



Pentandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Epacrideje. Br. 



Spicis axillaribus multifloris erectis brevibus, drupis globosis 

 5-locularibus, foliis lanceolatis mucronatis subenerviis 

 subtus glaucescentibus. 

 Mintada. Malay. — Found abundantly at Singapore. — A 



small branching shrub, with hard glry leaves, exhibiting the 



