Morinda. pentandria monogynia. 547 



the anthers. Berry, rather drupe, aggregate, ovate-oblong j 

 surface very unequal, size of a large mulberry. Seeds or nuts 

 regularly four to each proper berry or drupe of the com- 

 pound fruit, obliquely wedge-shaped ; three-celled, two of 

 them empty, the third with a single seed, as accurately de- 

 scribed and figured by Gartner in Morinda citrifblia. 



Obs. This plant is cultivated about Nagpore as the other 

 species are in various other parts of India, and for the same 

 purpose, (>ee Ashit. Res. iv. 35 — 44.) 



6. M, (incjuslifolia. R. 



Shrubby, erect. Leaves opposite to each other or to a 

 peduncle, lanceolar, bullate. Heads solitary. Flowers nu- 

 merous. Anthers concealed deep within the tube; stigma 

 exsert. Berries distinct, on a glomerate receptacle, succulent, 

 four seeded. 



An erect, thinly branched shrub, was found at Chittagong 

 by Dr. Buchanan, and from thence sent to the Botanic gar- 

 den at Calcutta in 1798, where it blossoms in March, and 

 the seeds ripen in May. 



Trunk straight, with a few erect branches. Bark light 

 ash coloured ; height of the whole plant about four or five 

 feet. Leaves opposite, or single when a peduncle occupies 

 the place of the other, sub-sessile, recurved, lanceolate, bul- 

 late, smooth, entire, about six inches long and less than two 

 wide. Stipules opposite, sub-cordate, interfoliaceous, united 

 into a ring and remaining long after their respective leaves 

 drop. Peduncles solitary, short, seemingly terminal when 

 they begin to blossom, but soon after the branchlet shoots out 

 from between each peduncle and its respective opposite leaf, 

 which marks dieir proper situation to be oppositifolius. 

 Heads solitary, globular, many, viz. from fifty to a hundred- 

 flowered. Floicers pure white, in size and shape like those 

 of the common Jasmine. Calyx merely an almost entire, 

 marginal ring round the base of the tube of the corol. Corol 

 funnel shaped. Filaments short, inserted rather below the 



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