528 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ScCBVOla, 



whole plant about five or six feet. Leaves alternate, sub-ses- 

 sile, long-obovate, with margins entire, apex circular, smooth, 

 shinino- oreen on both sides ; from three to six inches long. In 

 the axill of each is found a little tuft of delicate white wool. 

 Peduncles axillary, solitary, once, twice, or thrice dichoto- 

 mous, the whole not above one-fourth the length of the leaves. 

 Pedicels clavate, round, and smooth. Bractes opposite, small, 

 conical. Flowers white, slightly fragrant. Calyx may be 

 called five-leaved ; leaflets rather remote, erect, or recurved, 

 subulate, permanent. Corol one-petalled. Tube five or six 

 times longer than the calyx, split its whole length on the side 

 next to the branch, villous on the inside and shaggy with fi- 

 laments round the mouth. Border of five, oblong, unilateral 

 segments, with membranaceous, curled borders. Filaments 

 from the receptacle, erect till the flowers expand, then be- 

 coming variously curled back round the base of the tube of 

 the corol. Anthers oblong, crowned, before the expansion 

 of the corol they adhere slightly to each other, round the 

 mouth of the s%ma. Germ inferior, obovate, torose, two-cell- 

 ed, with one seed in each, attached to the very bottom of the 

 partition. Style length of the tube, pretty thick, recurved. 

 Stiyma large, funnel-shaped, very hairy on the outside, and 

 ciliate. Drupe nearly round, size of a small gooseberry, when 

 ripe white, and torulose. Nut two-celled, dark brown, wrin- 

 kled ; between it and the white exterior pulpy covering there 

 is a white torulose, softish cartilaginous coat. Seed one in 

 each cell. Embryo lodged in a considerable portion of whitish 

 albumen. Cotyledons two, oval. Radicle inferior, shorter than 

 the lobes. 



2. S. oppositijblia. R. 



Leaves opposite, short-petioled, elliptic, entire, smooth. Pe- 

 duncles axillary, few-flowered. 



A native of the Moluccas; a slender shrubby species, very 

 different in habit from S. Koniyiu 



