3Q8 TETRANDRIA MONOOYNIA. IxorO, 



slender and twiggy, hanging, green, with numerous compressed wi- 

 dened joints, like all the other parts of the plant smooth.— Lmt'cs 

 spreading, from five to seven inches long and almost as many times ex- 

 ceeding their interstices, an inch or less broad a little above their acute 

 base, from thence tapering into a sharp acumen, opavque and somewliat 

 glaucous above, pale beneath, with a slender white rib and very fine 

 sub-opposite nearly transversal nerves which communicate with each 

 other in sub-marginal arches. — Petiols about two lines long, channel- 

 ed. Stipules adpressed, lanceolate, as bioadas the interstices between 

 the insertion of the two opposite leaves, tapering into a subulate point 

 which generally exceeds the petiols in length. — Corymb small, 

 supported by a pair of very short leaves, consisting of twice or 

 thrice trichotomous, reddish, pubescent peduncles, with opposite li- 

 near, subulate bractes under each division, having a stipuliform, fim- 

 briated process between their bases. Pedicels ternate or fascicled, 

 two or three lines long, with three pairs of reddish fleshy subulate 

 scales, the uppermost adpressed to the calyx. — Calyx very small, 

 oblong, reddish, with erect subulate teeth ; at the bottom, within, there 

 is a series of fleshy, subulate, withering and sphacelated cilioi as in 

 the family of Asclepiadecc and Apocynea. Corolla white; tube slen- 

 ^ler, half an inch long; ^iw6 spreading, equalling the tube, M'ith linear 

 oblong-fatcale, slightly pubescent lacinia.— Anthers Ymear and long, 

 the base bifid and ending in two whitish processes ;j^7ame;//s short, 

 exserted. Sti/k clavate ; stigma two-lobed, subulate, spreading, 

 elevated above the mouth of the corolla. Berry as large as a mar- 

 row-fat pea, red, smooth, crowned with the four subulate, erect teeth 

 of the calyx. — Seerfs cup-shaped, hemisphaerical. 



Obs. This species is so distinct from all the others as to be easily 

 luiown. Its slender hanging branches, pallid and glaucous leaves, 

 and the small corymbs of crowded flowers contribute to render it a 

 very ornamental plant in the shrubbery. — N. W. 



18. I. rosea. J fall. 



Shrubby. Leaves oblong, acute with contracted sub-emargniate 



