G96 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Webera. 



two-lobed, two-celled, with two ovula in each, attached with 

 their base to the bottom of the partition. Style nearly the 

 length of the tube of the corol. Stigma ovate, short, with a 

 two-lobed apex. Berries two, perfectly distinct, singly some- 

 what of a roundish ovate shape, short-pedicelled, size of a 

 cherry, pulpy, when ripe orange-coloured, one-celled. Seeds 

 two in each berry. 



Obs. The whole of the generic character of this plant, 

 agrees so well with that of Carissa, as it stands in the various 

 editions of the Genera Plant arum that I have seen, (Jussieu's 

 excepted) as to leave no doubt with those, who still may think 

 two berries are the produce of one flower in that genus, that 

 this ought to be considered a species thereof. But in all the In- 

 dian species of Carissa ,* that I have yet met with, the peri- 

 carpium is uniformly single. As therefore this plant cannot 

 be placed in the same family, I think it better to continue 

 the former generic name (Car issa,) to the well known thorny 

 plants described under that genus, for I have not yet met 

 with any of the unarmed species, consequently cannot say 

 what their pericarps may be. I consider this to be a well 

 defined, perfectly distinct genus, and have named it after 

 Dr. William Hunter of the Bengal Medical Establishment, 

 an eminent Botanist, and author of various papers in the^i- 

 atic Researches, of the History of Pegu, &c. He was the 

 first discoverer of this very plant. 



WEBER J. Schreb. gen. N. 1733. 

 Calyx five parted. Corol funnel-shaped. Germ inferior, 

 two-celled ; cells few, or many-seeded ; attachment interior. 

 Berry bilocular ; cells few, or many-seeded. Embryo cen- 

 tripetal, and furnished with a perisperm. 



1. W. corymbosa. Willd. spec. i. 1224. Gcert. carp. 3. 71. 

 1. 102. 



* To which, Math the celebrated Jussieu I would join Arduina. 



