718 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Posoqiierict. 



sub-sessile. Fascicles axillary, and in the forks of the 

 branches. Berries two-celled. 



A middling-sized, very ramous, well armed shrub, a na- 

 tive of Silhet, where it blossoms in March and April. 



Branchlets smooth, opposite and dichotomous. Spines 

 axillary, patent, straight, rather short. Leaves opposite, 

 short-petioled, ovate-oblong, entire, pretty smooth, from one 

 to three inches long*. Stipules iuterfoliaceous, acuminate. 

 Flowers collected into small, sub sessile fascicles, in the forks 

 of the dichotomous branchlets, or axillary, middling-sized, 

 and like those of most of the other species, fragrant ; when 

 they first expand they are white, but gradually change to 

 pale yellow by the second day. Calyx hairy, margin divided 

 into five, subulate segments. Corol infundibuliform, bor- 

 der of five oblong segments. Filaments scarcely any. .An- 

 thers five, linear, one third of their length within the tube of 

 the corol. Germ inferior, two-celled, each containing many 

 ovula attached to a receptacle rising from the centre of the 

 partition. Style of the corol. Stigma clavate, unequally 

 two-lobed. 



7. P. lonc/ijlora. R. 



Arboreous, armed with opposite, recurved spines. Leaves 

 lanceolar-oblong, smooth. Corymbs terminal and axillary, 

 few-flowered. 



Compare with Gardenia mnlti flora, Willd. i. p. 1231. 



A native of Chittagong, where it grows to be a pretty 

 large tree. It flowers during the hot season, and the seeds 

 ripen in July and August. 



Branches and branchlets opposite, and smooth. Spines 

 axillary, very strong, sharp, and considerably recurved. 

 Leaves opposite, short-petioled, from broad-lanceolar to ob- 

 long, entire, smooth, from four to six inches long, by one and 

 a half or two broad. Stipules as in the order. Corymbs ter- 

 minal, and axillary, short, generally about eleven to tbirteen- 

 flowered, every part smooth. Flowers large, pale, or nearly 



