700 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Alyxia. 



Gynopogon stellatum. Forst. Prod. n. 47. Willd. spec. i. 

 1221 ? 



Pulassarium. Rumph. Amb. v. p. 32. I. 20. 



A native of Amboyna, and from thence brought to the 

 Botanic garden at Calcutta in 1798, where it thrives well, 

 blossoms about the close of the rains in September, and ri- 

 pens its fruit in the cool season. 



Trunk scarcely any, but many, long, twining', straggling, 

 or scandent branches as they meet with support. Bark of 

 the ligneous parts ash-coloured, of the young shoots smooth, 

 deep green. Every part abounds in a milky juice. Leaves 

 tern, or quatern, short-petioled, oblong, or oblong-lanceo- 

 late, entire, of a deep shining green on both sides; with very 

 slender, diverging, parallel veins; length from three to six 

 inches. Stipules, a small scale between the petioles. Flow- 

 ers many, small, pure white, collected in small, for the most 

 part, terminal, cymose fascicles. Bractes short, cordate, ri- 

 gid. Calyx deeply five-parted. Corol; tube swelled at the 

 base, and a little below the mouth where the stamens are 

 lodged, divisions of the border nearly round, in the bud im- 

 bricated. Filaments short. Anthers sagittate, just within 

 the mouth of the tube. Germ two lobed, and with care se- 

 parable without violence, each lobe one-celled, and contain- 

 ing three or four ovula, attached to the corol. Stigma slight- 

 ly two lobed. Berries two, when both prove fertile, which 

 is rarely the case, short-pedicelled, oval, size of a small cher- 

 ry, smooth, with a groove on the inside from the blunt-point- 

 ed apex to the base, when ripe yellowish. Pulp in very 

 small quantity ; one-celled. I have frequently found pro- 

 liferous berries, that is a second, on a short pedicel, growing 

 from the apex of the first, as in the genus Anosa. Seed con- 

 form to the berry. Integuments single, thin but hard and 

 elastic, approaching to nuciform ; from the middle of the in- 

 side a vertical -lamina projects one-third into the seed, then 

 divides and proceeds in opposite directions, like the recep- 

 tacles in Chironia (see Gcert. sem. ii. t. 114.) to these the 



