536 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNTA. VanfJUeHa. 



Teling. Naum- papula. 



Webera cymosa. Willd. spec. i. 1224. 



A small tree, a native of the interior mountains of the coast 

 of Coromandel. 



Bark smooth, on the young shoots shining- green. Leaves 

 opposite, short-petioled, oval, firm, smooth, of a shining deep 

 green, about six inches long ; on the under side in the axills 

 of the principal veins are to be found the characteristic glands 

 of the Gardenias, they are smooth and hollow; in the Garde- 

 nias they are generally surrounded with a hairy margin. Sti- 

 pules within the leaves. Cymes axillary, short-pcduncled, 

 simple, or compound, bearing* many small, white, very fra- 

 grant flowers. Calyx and corol as in the family. Filaments 

 five, short, somewhat crooked, inserted into the downy throat 

 of the tube of the corolla. Anthers incumbent, oblong. Germ 

 inferior, globular. Style nearly twice the length of the tube. 

 Stigma large, mitre-shaped. Pericarp a top-shaped berry, 

 the size of a small cherry, when ripe black and shining, 

 crowned with the calyx. Seeds two. 



5. C. moluccanum. /?. 



Pentandrous, unarmed. Leaves oblong-. Style length of 

 the short gibbous tube of the corol. Stigma turbinate. 

 A native of the Molucca Islands. 



VANGUERIA. Juss. 

 Calyx five-toothed. Corol one-petalled ; tube gibbous; 

 mouth shut with hairs. Germ five-celled ; cells one-seeded; 

 attachment interior. Berry inferior, five-seeded. Embryo 

 inverse, and furnished with a perisperm. 



] . V. spinosa. R. 



Shrubby, armed with decussate spines. 



Beng. Muyna. 



A small tree or large bush ; a native of Bengal and also of 



