Jolinia. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 169 



flowered. Flowers small, deep greenish orange colour. Calyx 

 of five round, villous margined, minute leaflets. Petals 

 round, sessile, with the margins recurved. Filaments no 

 other than the three, short, triangular segments of the fleshy 

 urceolate nectary, elevating the three, large, twin anther even 

 with the stigma. Germ above, conical ; three-celled, with two 

 ovula in each, attached to the axis. Style scarcely any ; stig- 

 ma acute. Berry size of a crab apple, round, smooth, dull- 

 red. Pulp in considerable quantity, white, of a soft, tough, 

 gelatinous consistence, and eaten by the natives. Seeds two, 

 or three, separated by a thick partition of pulp ; transversely 

 oblong ; flat on the inside, convex on the exterior. Integu- 

 ments single, spongy, brown. Perisperm none. Embryo con- 

 sisting of two equal cotyledons, conform to the seed, and un- 

 til vegetation begins, so firmly, and closely united, that they 

 seem to be of one entire piece. Radicle small, lodged at the 

 umbilicus, relative, centripetal. 



2. J. coromandeliana. R. 



Leaves opposite, serrulate, polished. Calyx five- toothed. 

 Petals unguiculate. 



A small, straggling tree, or rather a large climbing shrub, 

 a native of forests and mountains of Coromandel. 



Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oval, smooth, shining, 

 sometimes most slightly serrulate ; about three inches long-, 

 and one and a half broad. Peduncles axillary, several, bow- 

 ing, one-flowered. Calyx inferior, one-leaved, five-cleft. Pe- 

 tals five, clawed, round, or oval, spreading. Nectary a large 

 globular, fleshy receptacle, elevating the stamens and pistil. 

 Filaments three, spreading, shorter than the petals, inserted 

 into the top of the nectary round the germ. Anthers small, 

 twin. Germ half immersed in the nectary, three-celled, with 

 one or two ovula in each, attached to the axis. Style very 

 short. Stigma simple. Berry superior, globular, upon the 

 remaining nectary, or receptacle, size and colour of a small 

 red cherry ; one-celled, one-seeded. 



