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serted below the ovary : alternating with these are sometimes 

 found 5 short, abortive filaments. Filaments very short. 

 Anthers longer, erect, conniving round the style, oblong, 

 prolonged into acumina, which are sometimes a little con- 

 torted, and which open at their summits by a pore ; the cells 

 are adnate below to the sides of the filament. , Ovary oblong, 

 acute. Style filiform, erect, equal to the stamens. Stigma 

 simple. Berry snow-white, globular, obscurely angled, crowned 

 with the persistent style, which is obliquely deflexed; of a 

 spongy or farinose substance, containing in the centre 5 seeds, 

 dispersed round the axis, and enclosed in arilli composed of 

 tough longitudinal fibres. Seeds {pyrence?) oblong, some- 

 what reniform, hard. Albumen conformed to the seed. Em- 

 bryo inverse, cylindrical, nearly as long as the seed. Cotyle- 

 dons semicylindrical, obtuse. Radicle superior, longer than 

 the cotyledons. 



The branches are terminated by long corniculate buds, in 

 which the gemmation is involute. 



EUTHEMIS MINOR. W. J. 



Foliis angusto-lanceolatis leviter serrulatis, racemis simplici- 



bus, baccis rubris angulatis acuminatis. 

 Found at Singapore with the preceding ; — also on the Island 



of Penang. Wall, in Roxb. FL Ind. v. 2. p. 306. 

 A smaller shrub than the former, branched, smooth. 

 Leaves alternate, petiolate, lineai', lanceolafe, rather obtuse 

 with a mucro, attenuated to the petiole, slightly serrulate, very 

 smooth, shining, finely striated with transverse veins. Petioles 

 short, thickened at the base, channelled above. Stipides 

 linear, ciliate. Racemes simple, erect, at first terminal, be- 

 coming afterwards lateral. Flowers alternate, pedicellate, 

 often in pairs. There is a single leaf-like h'act, and several 

 smaller ones at the base of the pedicels, less deciduous than 

 in the preceding. Calyx 5-leaved, leaflets ovate, ciliated. 

 Corolla yvhite, spreading, 5-petaled; petals lanceolate, acute. 

 Stamens 5, erect, conniving, hypogynous : filaments very 

 short : anthers yellow, oblong, broader at the base, 2-celled, 

 cells adnate to the sides of the filament, prolonged above 



