22 PENTANDRiA MONoGYNiA. TaberncBihontana. 



the Rev. Dr. John ; where it jflowers during the greater 

 part of the year, but chiefly during the rains. 

 Trunk short. 



Branches numerous ; spreading much in every direction, 

 dichotomous, the old ones with smooth olive coloured 

 bark ; the young ones green, round, and very smooth, 

 ieave* opposite, petioled, oblong, and linear-oblong, entire, 

 rather obtuse, of a firm texture, and polished on both 

 .sides ; veins parallel, diverging from the rib ; length from 

 four to eight inches and from one to two broad. Petioles 

 short, and united in a cup like a stipulary ring which com- 

 pletely embraces the branchlets. All these parts very re- 

 sinous. Racemes simple or compound ; single or in pairs, 

 in the extreme divisions of the branchlets ; often as long 

 as ^he leaves, polished, bright green. Flowers rather 

 remote, long-pedicelled, large, white, scarcely fragrant. 

 bractes scarcely any. Calyx five-parted ; divisions 

 short, semilunar, resinous. Coral ; tube long, gibbous 

 near the base, much contracted above the stamina ; 

 i?orc?er of five, contorted, falcate segments. Filaments 

 short, inserted into the tube of the corol near the mid- 

 dle. Anthers sagittate. Germs tw o, closely united ; 

 single, one-celled ; ovula numerous, attached to a two- 

 lobed receptacle, on the inner side of the cell. Style 

 two-thirds shorter than the tube of the corol, two-lobed. 

 Stigma large, with a tapering bifid apex. Follicles, it 

 is rare to find more than one of the two come to ma- 

 turity, they are recurved with the back considerably 

 concave ; and very gibbous on the opposite side, where 

 an elevated rib runs along each side of the suture ; ob- 

 tusely pointed, pretty smooth; when ripe of a bright orange 

 colour, four or five inches long, and nearly two in dia- 

 meter where thickest. Seeds numerous, of an irregular, 

 cuneate-oblpng shape, with a deep longitudinal groove 

 on one side ; each enveloped in its own proper, scarlet, 

 pulpy aril and inserted along the side of the two margins 



