Scytalia. octandria monogynia. 273 



lum. -4/i/Aer5- linear-oblong, incurvate. Germ superior, 

 two-lobed, with one ovula in each, attached to the base 

 of the partition. Style short. Stigma bifid ; segments 

 recurved. Berries one or two, the size and shape of an 

 olive, smooth, dark purple; like the fruit of Eugenia jam- 

 bolana, succulent, one-celled, the purple aril is eaten by 

 the natives. Seed, solitary, the shape of the berry. Integu- 

 ments two, exterior, ash-coloured, firm and thin ; interior 

 brown, softer, and thicker than the exterior. Perisperm 

 none. Embryo erect. Cotyledons nearly equal. Radicle 

 inferior, truncated. 



6. S. parviflora. R. 



Leaflets about seven, lanceolate, serrate, crenate. Pa- 

 nicles terminal. Calyx, and Corol of four leaflets, and 

 petals. 



A native of the Moluccas. 



7. S, oppositifolia. R. 



Leaves opposite, unequally pinnate, leaflets from three 

 to five, lanceolate, remotely serrate, crenate. Panicles 

 terminal. 



A native of the Malay Islands. 



8. S. verticillata. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves simple, subverticelled, lanceolar, 

 smooth, entire. Panicles terminal. Petals five, with a 

 woolly scale near the base. Germ two-lobed, elevated 

 on a receptacle. 



This pretty shrub, or small tree was brought to this 

 garden from the Moluccas, with the spice plants in 1798, 

 where it blossoms and ripens its seed at difierent periods 

 through the year. 



Trunk straight, with many straight branches, and to- 

 lerably smooth, brownish bark ; height of the plants, about 

 seven feet, and are still growing fast. jLeat?es subver- 

 ticelled, short-petioled, lanceolate, smooth on both sides, 



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