Posoqueria. pentandria monogynia. 719 



white when they first expand, becoming yellow by the se- 

 cond day, fragrant. Calyx tubular, mouth cut into five, se- 

 milunar segments. Corol ; tube long- and slender; border of 

 five, unequally lanceolate, spreading segments. Filaments 

 none. Anthers five, linear, attached to the mouth of the tube 

 of the corol. Germ inferior, two celled, with many ovula in 

 each, attached to their elevated fleshy receptacle, rising from 

 the centre of the partition. Berries the size of common cher- 

 ries, when ripe yellow, smooth, fleshy, two-celled. Seeds nu- 

 merous, &c. &c. as in the genus. 



8. V . floribunda. R. 



Sub-arboreous, armed. Leaves opposite and fascicled, 

 obovate, cuneate. Flowers in lateral fascicles ; calyx long- 

 er than the tube of the corol, its segments lanceolate. Berries 

 ovate-cordate, polished. 



A large, rigid, ramous shrub, or, in a good soil, small tree, 

 like dnmetorum a native of the coast of Coromandel. Flow- 

 ering time April and May, and the seeds ripeu immediately 

 after the rains. 



Trunk in ten years old plants in the Botanic garden at 

 Calcutta as thick as a man's leg, but short, soon dividing 

 into numerous branches, and straight, stiff branchlets, in 

 every direction. Bark ash-coloured, on the oldest parts 

 considerably cracked. Spines axillary, and rarely more than 

 one to each pair of leaves; about an inch long, stiff, straight, 

 rigid and sharp. Leaves on the tender shoots opposite, on 

 the old flower-bearing twig fascicled, round the flower sub- 

 sessile ; the general form obovate, tapering a good deal to the 

 base ; obtuse, smooth, from one to two inches long, by one 

 broad. Stipules as in the order. Flowers short peduncled, 

 generally from four to six produced from each of the small 

 lateral, short, scaly spurs, (as they are called by gardeners,) 

 of a middling size, and fragrant, when they first expand pure 

 white, but soon becoming yellow. Calyx smooth ; tube cy- 

 lindric; segments of the border generally five, sub-lanceo- 



