542 pentandhia MONOGYNiA. Morinda. 



An elegant small tree, with straight trunk, and numerous, 

 decussated, assurgent branches, a position they generally 

 take from the weight of the fruit, and constant exuberant fo- 

 liage. From Peon it has been introduced into the Botanic 

 garden at Calcutta, where it is in constant fruit, and flower 

 the whole year. It does not appear to be a native of Bengal, 

 nor did 1 ever meet with it on the coast of Coromandel ; but 

 the species which I formerly considered as tilrifolia is com- 

 mon in both countries, and the description and drawings 

 thereof were sent to the Honourable the Court of Directors. 

 That species, which however is quite distinct, I now call 

 lincloria, as it is the sort most in use for dying. 



Bark of young trees, or their trunk, light ash-coloured and 

 smooth; young shoots somewhat four-cornered, smooth and 

 lucid. Leaves opposite to each other, or to a peduncle, short- 

 petioled, from oblong to oval, lucid, entire, rather obtuse ; 

 from five to ten inches long, and from three to five broad. 

 Stipules large, semi-lunar, entire, smooth. Peduncles solita- 

 ry, opposite to a solitary leaf on the upper side of the branch- 

 lets, erect, short, cylindric, smooth, each supporting a small 

 ao-n-reoate head of small white flowers. Calyx an entire 

 margin round the apex of the germ. Corol funnel-shaped ; 

 month of the tube hairy. Border five-parted, segments lan- 

 ceolate, acute. Filaments five, woolly , inserted into the tube 

 of the corol, a little above its middle. Anthers linear, erect, 

 half hid in the tube. Germs firmly united, single, two-cell- 

 ed, each cell containing two ovula, attached to opposite ends 

 of the wings of the large, thick, fleshy partition. Style length 

 of the tube of the corol. Stigma two cleft. Berries com- 

 pound, size of a pullet's e^g or even longer, obtuse, when 

 ripe pale white, polished, and succulent, as described and 

 figured by Gfertner. 



Obs. Its roots are employed by the natives like those of 

 several other species to dye red. 



