71G PENTANDR1A MONOGYNIA. PoSOqUClia.. 



4. P. longispina. /?. 



Arboreous, armed, spines opposite, and alternate, horizon- 

 tal. Leaves obovafe-cuneate, smooth. Flowers solitary, ter- 

 minal, and axillary. Calyx smooth, border permanent. 

 Fruit obovate. smooth. 



A native of the coast of Coromandel. Flowering time the 

 hot and rainy season. 



Trunk straight. Branches numerous, the smaller long-, 

 slender, spreading, and drooping', a habit which immediately 

 distinguishes this species from Konig's dumetorum ; its 

 branches being short and rigidly erect. Spines opposite or 

 alternate, decussate, horizontal, straight, strong and sharp ; 

 length from one to two inches. Leaves on the young shoots 

 opposite, on the old ones in fascicles below the spines, all are 

 short- petioled, obovate-cuneate, entire, smooth on both sides ; 

 size varying, from half an inch to three inches in length. Sti- 

 pules (examine the very young shoots to find them) within 

 the leaves, subulate, pointed. Flowers solitary, short-pedun- 

 cled, generally from, the extremities of the little, leaf-bearing 

 branchlets below the spines, rarely axillary, pretty large, 

 pure white, and fragrant. Calyx perfectly smooth. Tube 

 cylindric ; border of five, ovate-cordate, permanent segments. 

 In dumetorum the tube only is permanent. Corol salver- 

 shaped. Tube as long as the tube of the calyx, villous on 

 the outside, within, a ring of projecting hairs shuts it up 

 about the middle. Border of five, obliquely ovate, spread- 

 ing divisions. Filaments none. Anthers five, linear, affix- 

 ed over the fissures of the border of the corol, and entirely 

 without its tube. Style thickened at the middle. Stigma 

 erect, two-lobed. Berry obovate (in P. dumetorum round,) 

 size of a large nutmeg, smooth, two-celled. Seeds numer- 

 ous, immersed in pulp. 



Obs. Thuuberg's Gardenia spinosa is a plant I have not 

 seen, if it be not Konig's dumetorum or this very species I 

 have now described, consequently cannot say wherein they 

 differ, but from dumetorum, which I kuow well, it differs 



