108 di anuria MONocY.MA. Scfirebera. 



3. C. dichotoma. R. 



Shrubby, dichotomous. Leans cuneiform-lanccolar, re- 

 curved, entire. Racemes axillary ; pedicels three-flowered. 



Native place Coromamlel. The Asiatic synonima arc un- 

 certain. Flowering time in the Botanic garden the month of 

 March. 



Trunk short; bark dark ash-coloured, with many, elevat- 

 ed, lighter coloured -\u < ks. Branches dichotomous through- 

 oat, very numerous; height of the shrubs in the Botanic 

 garden, about seven feet in seven Tears. Leaves opposite, 

 short-petioled, broad-cuneiform, lanceolar, entire, rather ob- 

 tuse; surfaces smooth, texture hard; three inches Long by 

 one broad. Racemes axillary, solitary, scarcely half the 

 length of the leaves. Pedicels sub-opposite, diverging, 

 three-flowered. Flowers small, white, inodorous. Ca/t/a: four- 

 parted; segments ovate, obtuse, villous. Carol, the segments 

 can scarcely be said to be united at the base, except by the 

 filaments, which are inserted on the basts of two, and in that 

 manner form two pair of segments; they are nearly exact, 

 taper a little, and have their margins much incurved. /./</- 

 limits two, short. Anthers large, with bifid apex. Germ 

 four-sided, ovate, two-celled, with two ovulu in each attach- 

 ed to the middle of the partition. Style short. Stigma ob- 

 scurely tWO-lobed. Drupe superior, oval, or short obovate, 

 size of a black currant, siueult nt. when ripe purple, one-cell- 

 ed. A'ul obovate, rather thin, and tender, marked with four 

 ribs from the apex to the base, with four small, imperfect 

 ones between, one-celled. Seed solitary, conform to the nut. 

 Integument single, thin, and tender. Perispetm none. Em- 

 bryo inverse. Cotyledons conform to the seed. Radicle pa- 

 telliform, superior. 



SCHREBERA. R. 

 Calyx bilabiate. Corol salver-shaped. Capsule superior, 

 turbinate, two-celled, two-valved. Seeds several, inembrane- 

 winsred. 



