714 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Posoqueria. 



or, in a good soil, small trees, on the coast ; there is scarcely 

 an uncultivated spot where it is not to be found. Flowering 

 time the beginning of the wet season. 



Dr. Kouig's description of this shrub, published in the 

 Supplement urn Plant arum of the younger Linnaeus is good 

 and full. 



Germ two-celled, each containing many ovula attached to 

 a crescent-shaped receptacle in each cell, which is vertical- 

 ly attached to the middle of ihe partition. Berry round, 

 smooth, when ripe yellow, and much like a small crab apple 

 both in size and appearance. Pulp in large quantity, of a 

 firm, fleshy texture, two celled. Seeds numerous, oval and 

 oblong-, attached as in the germ, and nestling in a quantity 

 of gelatinous pulp. Perisperm conform to the seed. Em- 

 bryo more than half the length of the seed, straight. Cotyle- 

 dons roundish. Radicle cylindric, length of the cotyledons, 

 vaya. 



It is employed for fences, and fire-wood. The flowers 

 like all the rest of this genus are highly fragrant, but in this 

 species few in number. 



The fruit when ripe, looks like a small yellow apple; if 

 bruised and thrown into ponds where there are fish, they are 

 soon intoxicated, and seen floating. If this is done during 

 the hot season, it is said, the fish generally die, but if during 

 the wet or cold season they recover. 



Fishermen sometimes follow this mode to enable them to 

 take the fish with more ease. They are not deemed less 

 wholesome from the effects of the fruit. Coccnlis Indicus 

 does not grow in those parts, nor is it known or used there 

 for this purpose. 



3. P. nutans. R. 



Shrubby, armed, branchlets drooping. Leaves narrow - 

 obovate-oblong. Flowers solitary. Berries round, crown- 

 ed with the entire calyx. 



Ciriscus malabaricus. Gcert. sem. i. I. 28, is with respect 



