Posoqueria. pentandria monogynia. 713 



ering* time the beginning of the hot season, and in some mea- 

 sure all the year. The seeds ripen in the cool season. 



Trunk short, covered with a dark, rust-coloured, scabrous 

 bark. Branches, some stiffly erect, very rigid, four-corner- 

 ed, thick set with short, round, diverging-, decussated branch- 

 lets; others spreading. Thorns one, two, three, or four, at 

 the extremities of the short, round branchlets just mention- 

 ed. Leaves opposite, on the young- shoots, fascicled at the 

 extremities of the branchlets, short-petioled, oblong, smooth, 

 shining, entire, from two to three inches long, by one and 

 a half broad. Stipules within the leaves as in the rest of the 

 genus. Flowers one, two, or three upon their proper short 

 peduncles, at the extremites of the branchlets, large, white 

 and flagrant. Calyx tubular, obtusely five-toothed > perma- 

 nent. Corol, mouth of the tube shut up with much white 

 hair. Border flat, from five to eight-cleft ; divisions orbicu- 

 lar. Nectary a fleshy, angular ring surrounding the base of 

 the style. Germ inferior, two-celled, each containing numer- 

 ous ovula, attached to a crescent-shaped receptacle in each 

 cell, vertically united to the middle of the partition. Berry 

 two-celled, size and shape of a pullet's egg, bark ash-colour- 

 ed, or olive gray ; pulp in large quantity, hard and dry. 

 Seeds numerous, oval, flattened, nidulant. Embryo furnish- 

 ed with a perisperm, its direction various. 



The flowers of this species render it deserving of a conspi- 

 cuous place in the flower garden. The uncommon appear- 

 ance of the plant is also in its favour. 



2. P. dumetorum. Willd. i. 1229. 



Sub-arboreous, armed. Leaves obovate. Flowers lateral, 

 and terminal, solitary ; tube short, border five-parted. Berry 

 drupaceous, spherical. 



Gardenia dumetorum. Willd. i. 1229. 



G. spinosa. Suppl. Plant, p. 164. 



Telinya. Manga. 



This is one of the most common, thorny, ramous shrubs, 



