Bergera. decandria monogynia. 375 



nate, smooth, of a shining deep green, from one and a half 

 to two inches long, and about one broad, the inferior 

 smallest. Petioles glandular, round. Corymbs terminal, 

 globular, crowded with pretty large, beautiful, pure 

 white, exquisitely fragrant flowers. Calyx one-leaved, 

 five-parted, glandular, divisions erect, acute. Carol five- 

 petalled, carapanulate. Petals lanceolate, spreading at 

 top. Nectary a fleshy ring surrounding the base of the 

 germ. Filaments ten, alternately longer, and larger. An- 

 thers oblong. Germ superior, oblong, glandular, two-cell- 

 ed, with two ovula in each vertically attached to the upper 

 half of the partition. Style thick, length of the stamens. 

 Stigma large, glandular. Seeds one, or two, oblong, 

 pointed above, flat on one side, woolly. Embryo inverse, 

 and without perisperm. 



2. M. Sumatrana. R. 



Leaves alternately pinnate ; leaflets from five to seven, 

 ovate and ovate-oblong, emarginate. Flowers terminal. 



A large shrub, a native of Sumatra, and from thence 

 sent to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, by Dr. C. Camp- 

 bell, under the name Chalcas ; it is much thinner of 

 branches, has larger leaves, and fewer but much larger 

 flowers, than exotica, and when growing together most 

 conspicuously difl'erent in habit. Flowers, and ripens its 

 seed at various times through the year. 



BERGERA. Schreb. geyu n. 718. 

 Calyx five-toothed. Carol five-petalled, expanding. 

 Germ two-celled, one ovula in each attached to the axis. 

 Berry superior, one or two-seeded. Embryo inverse, 

 without perisperm. 



1. B. KbnigiL Willcl 2, 549. 

 Leaflets obliquely lanceolate, serrate. 



