Phillyrea. diandria monogynia. 101 



A native of China and from thence introduced into the Bo- 

 tanic garden near Calcutta, before 1793. Now, 1802, they 

 have grown to be beautiful small trees, of from fifteen to 

 twenty feet in height, clothed almost to the ground, with nu- 

 merous, opposite, spreading, and drooping branches, covered 

 with smooth, ash-coloured bark. 



Leaves opposite, petioled, drooping-, ovate-oblong, sides 

 incurved, entire, leathery, smooth on both sides, above a shin- 

 ing deep green, underneath glaucous, with two or more ob- 

 scure glands near their base : from four to five inches long, 

 and from two to three bread. Petioles short, recurved, chan- 

 nelled. Stipules none. Panicles terminal from the exterior 

 axills, ramifications thereof opposite, and smooth. Flowers 

 very numerous, rather small, pure white, somewhat fragrant. 

 Bractes minute, caducous. Calyx obscurely four-toothed. 

 Corol one-petalled ; tube short ; segments linear, revolute, 

 smooth. Filaments opposite, inserted into the bottom of 

 the tube of the corol, and about as long as the seg- 

 ments of its border. Anthers incumbent. Germ above, but 

 lodged deep in the bottom of the calyx, two-celled, with two 

 uvula in each. Style short. Stigma clavate, entire. Drupe 

 size of a small French bean, obliquely obovate, smooth, ge- 

 nerally one-celled. JVut solitary, with the rudiment of a se- 

 cond, but I never saw more than one come to maturity; 

 pointed at the base, furrowed on the outside, covered with a 

 thick, somewhat indurated envelope, though scarcely hard 

 enough to be called a nut. Embryo inverse, lodged in a 

 pearl-coloured amygdaline perisperm. 



Obs. Ligustrum japonicum. Thunb. Flor. Japan, p. 17. 

 f. 1. is a tolerably good n presentatien of this tree; but the 

 one-seeded nut, short style, and clavate stigma of my plant, 

 will not allow me to think they can be the same. 



2. P. robusta. R. 



Leaves ovate-oblong, entire, acuminate. Panicles termi- 

 nal, large and spreading. Berries sub-cylindric, one-seeded. 



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