284 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. SapitlduS. 



from three to six inches long, (the exterior largest,) and 

 from one to two inches broad. Petioles round, smooth. 

 Stipules, or inferior pair of leaflets very remarkable, 

 smooth, round cordate, inserted on opposite sides of the 

 base of the common petiole. Inflorescence for the most 

 part axillary racemes, though sometimes terminal pa- 

 nicles, composed of but few, expanding ramifications. 

 Flowers small, with a ferruginous calyx, and white corol. 

 Bract es solitary, one-flowered, subulate. Calyx of four 

 smooth, suborbicular, ferruginous leaflets. Petals four, 

 suborbicular, rather larger than the calyx, near the base 

 of each is a double tuft of wool. Filaments eight, shorter 

 than the corol, inserted into a woolly receptacle, which 

 also receives the base of the germ. Anthers ovate. 

 Germ superior, two or three-lobed, from two to three 

 celled, each containing one ovula attached to the bottom 

 of the cell. Style none. •S'^/^wm large, glandular, two- 

 lobed. Berry two or three-lobed, size of a small cherry, 

 of a bright, smooth, shining black colour, the pulp is in 

 large proportion, and of a pleasant sweetish astringent 

 taste. Seeds one in each lobe of the berry. Embryo 

 erect, without a perisperm. 



8. S. serratus. /?. 



Leaflets numerous, alternate, lanceolate, serrate ; ra- 

 chis simple. Panicles subterminal. Petals five, regular, 

 with two very hairy clavate scales near the base. 



A native of the Moluccas. 



