388 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Pyrostria. 



and very fine sub-opposite nearly transversal nerves which 

 communicate with each other in sub-marginal arches* Pe- 

 tioles about two lines long-, channelled. Stipules ad pressed. 

 lanceolate, as broad as the interstices between the insertion 

 of the two opposite leaves, tapering into a subulate point 

 which generally exceeds th<' petioles in length. Corymb 

 small, supported by a pair of very short leaves, consisting of 

 twice or thrice trichotomous, reddish, pubescent peduncles, 

 with opposite linear, subulate bractes under each division, 

 having a stipuliform, fimbriated process between their 

 bases. Pedicels ternate or fascicled, two or three lines long, 

 with three pairs of reddish fleshy subulate scales, the upper- 

 most adpressed to the calyx. Calyx very small, oblong, 

 reddish, with erect subulate teeth; at the bottom, within, 

 there is a series of fleshy, subulate, withering and sphacelat- 

 ed cilia as in the family of Asclepiadea; and Jtpocynece. 

 Corolla white ; tube slender, half an inch long ; limb spread- 

 ing, equalling the tube, with linear oblong-falcate, slightly 

 pubescent lacinice. Anthers linear and long, the base bifid 

 and ending in two whitish processes. Filaments short, exsert- 

 ed. Style clavate. Stigma two-lobed, subulate, spreading, 

 elevated above the mouth of the corolla. Berry as large as 

 a marrow-fat pea, red, smooth, crowned with the four subu- 

 late, erect teeth of the calyx. Seeds cup-shaped, hemisphe- 

 rical. 



PYROSTRIA. J ass. gen. ed. Ust. 229. 

 Calyx four-toothed. Corol with cylindric tube, and four- 

 cleft border. Drupe inferior, with as far as eight, one-seed- 

 ed nuts. 



1. P. hexasperma. R. 



Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, acute, entire. 

 Corymbs axillary, and also within the cuspidate, hairy, sti- 

 pules, dichotomous. Drupe six-seeded. 



