firucea. tetrandria tetragynia. .449 



TETRANDRIA TETRAGYNIA. 



BRUCE A. Schreb. gen. N. 1508. 

 Calyx four-parted. Petals four. Germs four, one-seeded, 

 attachment inferior. Berries four, superior, one-seeded. 

 Embryo inverse, with scarcely any perisperm. Sometimes a 

 fifth part is added. 



1. B. sumatrana. R. 



Shrubby. Leaflets serrate. Racemes axillary, generally 

 compound. 



Lussa-Radja. Rnmph. Amb. Auctuar. 27. t. 15. 



Mai. Ampadoo-Barrowing-. 



A native of Sumatra. From thence Mr. Ewer sent the 

 seeds to the Botanic garden, where in one year the plants 

 were about four feet high with a straight ligneous stem ; and 

 few branches. They then began to flower in May, and con- 

 tinued to blossom and ripen their seed all the year. 



Leaves scattered, unequally-pinnate, from twelve to eigh- 

 teen inches long. Leaflets from four to six pair, opposite, 

 short- petioled, obliquely ovate-lanceolate, grossly and ob- 

 tusely serrate, pointed, villous underneath, from three to six 

 inches long, very bitter, and somewhat fcetid. Petioles com- 

 mon, round, and villous. Stipules none. Racemes axillary, 

 solitary, from one to six, or eight inches long, somewhat com- 

 pound, dark purple, and clothed with a few white hairs. 

 Florcers numerous, very minute, dark purple, and in all the 

 Sumatra plants completely hermaphrodite. Bracles subu- 

 late, hairy, very small, and caducous. Calyx four-leaved, 

 or deeply four-parted. Segments small, ovate-lanceolate, 

 deep purple, hairy on the outside and with the corols be- 

 coming reflexed. Petals four, longer than the calyx, lan- 

 ceolate, dark purple, and hairy on the outside. Nectary a 

 dark purple, four-lobed, fleshy cup surrounding the inser- 

 tion of the germs. Filaments four, short, purple, inserted uu- 

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