Carissa. pentandria monogynia. 687 



in the leaves, oblong-, spreading. Cymes opposite, axillary, 

 long-peduncled, twice two-forked. Peduncles round, a little 

 inflected, from three to four inches long. Bractes many, li- 

 near, obtuse, caducous. Flowers sessile, from fifteen to twen- 

 ty on the cyme, large, white, and exquisitely fragrant, par- 

 taking much of the fragrance of cloves. Calyx cup-shaped, 

 entire, permanent. Cot of ; lube cylindric, an inch and a half 

 long. Throat woolly. Border from six to nine-cleft. Fila- 

 ments none. Anthers as many as there are divisions in the bor- 

 der of the corol, linear, within the mouth of the tube. Germ 

 inferior. Style a little shorter than the tube. Stigma nearly 

 globose. Pericarp a dry drupe, nearly globose, pretty 

 smooth, inwardly of a fibrous, wood; texture, containing as 

 many curved cells as there were anthers, or divisions in the 

 border of the corol. Seeds one in each cell, much curved, 

 concave part of the curvature outward. 



Obs. I have at various times examined many hundreds of 

 the flowers of this tree, and never found any that were herma- 

 phrodite. It agrees better in habit and in most other respects, 

 the seed vessels excepted, with Gardenia than with any other 

 ofenus I have met with. 



CARISSA. Sckreb. gen. N. 413. 

 Calyx five-toothed. Corol funnel-shaped. Germ superior, 

 two-celled; cells two to lour seeded ; attachment Ulterior, 

 Berry two-celled, few seeded. Embryo inverse, and fur- 

 nished with a perisperm. 



1. C. Carandas. Willd. spec. i. 1219. Roxb. Carom. 77. 



Sub-arboreous. Thorns often two-forked. Leave* ellip- 

 tic, obtuse, smooth. Corymbs terminal, lew-flowered. Germ, 

 eight- seeded. 



Avinga, Kr/shnrt-pakpliMltf, and Sanscrit names. See J*i- 

 atic Res. iv. 2(k5. 



Telincja. Waaka. 



