Posoqueria. pentandria monogynta. 715 



to shape and size a very good representation of the berry, 

 but to render it exact, the calycine segments, and the recep- 

 tacles of the seeds must be added. The figures are too small 

 for dumetorum growing in exactly the same spot, and with 

 the same management. In the Botanic garden at Calcutta, 

 hi twelve years, this is a tall slender shrub with very slender 

 drooping branches, and a trunk not thicker than a man's 

 wrist, whereas dumetorum of the same age has grown to be a 

 stout, rigid, small tree, with a trunk two inches and a half in 

 circumference, at four feet above the ground. 



Trunk straight, from three to four feet high. Branches 

 numerous, with the extreme divisions long, slender, and 

 drooping ; tender shoots a little hairy. Spines axillary, oppo- 

 site, horizontal, straight, slender, but hard, stiff, and sharp. 

 Leaves on the young shoots opposite, on the old ones fasci- 

 cled, short-petioled, from cuneiform oblong to round, from 

 one to two inches long, by about one broad. Stipules trian- 

 gular, acute, &c. as in the order. Flowers solitary from the 

 old axills under the spines, with or without leaves, short-pe- 

 d uncled, middle-sized, white and fragrant. Calyx with a 

 short, rather hairy, cylindric tube, and five-parted border, 

 all permanent, ( ami, outside sericeous. Tube very little 

 longer than the c;dyx, swelled near the base, and there shut 

 witli ;■ dense circle or valve of white hairs, pointing upwards. 

 Border of five, obovate, spreading segments, which are im- 

 bricated in the bud. Filaments, scarcely any. Anthers fili- 

 form, without the tube. Germ turbinate, two-celled, with 

 many ovula in each, attached to two peltate receptacles aris- 

 ing from the < entre of the partition. Style rather longer than 

 the tube of the corol, swelled near the middle. Stigma large, 

 roundish, clammy, apex two-lobed. Berry the size of a nut- 

 meg, nearly round, somewhat rugose, pulpy, crowned with 

 the entire calyx, two-celled. Seeds numerous, small, oval, 

 flattened. Perisperm and embryo as in the other species. 



