Ardisia. pentandria monogynia. 579 



one cell only can be detected. Cortex rather hard and brit- 

 tle ; colour from a bright yellow to a dirty looking mixture 

 of yellow and rough brown. Pulp gelatinous and yellow. 

 Seeds from two to twelve, orbicular, much flattened as in 

 the Nux-vomica, peltate, nearly an inch broad. Integuments 

 two ; the exterior one thin, but tough, and most densely 

 clothed with soft, short hairs, like the softest velvet; the in- 

 terior one a very thin brown membrane. Perisperm conform 

 to the seed, united round the margins, the middle free, resem- 

 bling two cotyledons, horny. Embryo straight, much small- 

 er than the perisperm, and lodged close to the umbilicus, 

 which may be readily known by the hair being longer at that 

 part, forming a tuft round it. Cotyledons cordate, three- 

 nerved. Radicle oval, pointing to the umbilicus, (centripetal.) 



SERISSA. Juss. 

 Corol one-petalled, funnel-shaped ; throat ciliate ; segments 

 of the border sub-tri-lobate. Berry inferior, two-seeded. 



1. S.fcetida. Willd. sp. i. 1061. 



Dysodafasiculata. Louriero Cochin Ch. 181. 



Lycium japonicum. Thumb. Jap. 93. t. 17. 



Jjycium fcetidum, Linn, suppl. 150. 



Lycium indicum. Retz. Obs. ii. p. 12. 



Introduced into our gardens in India from China, which 

 accounts for the natives having no name for it. In the Bota- 

 nic garden at Calcutta it blossoms the whole year round, but 

 never produces fruit; the flowers being constantly double. 



ARDISIA. Schreb. gen. N. 1735. 

 Calyx five-leaved. Corol hypocrateriform. Germ supe- 

 rior, one-celled, one-seeded ; attachment inferior. Stigma 

 subulate. Berry superior, one-seeded. Embryo transversely 

 serpentine in an ample perisperm. 



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