Jxofa. TlXrxANDRiA MONOGYNIA. 387 



perior, four- toothed, coloured, permanent. — Corol witVi a very long 

 slender tube ; sei^ments of the border four, ovate, rather obtuse, 

 spreading. — Filaments four, short, inserted without the mouth of the 

 tube, spreading, anthers Hnear, spreading. — Germ two-celled, with 

 one seed in each, attached to the middle of the partition, btjjie 

 length of the tube of the coro). Stigma bitid. — Berry spherical, size 

 of a large pea, smootli, fleshy, when ripe purple, two-celled. — Seed 

 solitary, oval, convex on the outside, flat, with a deep pit on the 

 inside. Integuments two ; exterior nuciform, inner membranaceous. 

 — Perisperm conform to the seed, cartilaginous. — Embrj/o erect, 

 curved, nearly as long as the perisperm. Cutyleduns renilorm, cor- 

 date. Radicle cylindric, longer than the cotyledons^ inferior. 



Obs. This species is nearly allied to 1. coccinea, but differs in the 

 follow ing respects : 



\&t. This is a very ramous spreading bush, that much less so, 

 and nearly erect. 



^d. In this the leaves are stem-clasping, and obtuse ; in that 

 sessile and acute. 



2d. In this the segments ofthebortler of the corol are ovate, and 

 rather obtuse ; in that ovate-lanceolate, and acute ; and lastly, 



Ath. The calyx on the fruit is open in this species, in that shut in- 

 to a conical point. 



3. l.julgens. R* 



Shrubby. Leaves sub-sessile, lanceolate, acute. Corymbs termi- 

 nal, highly coloured. Segments of the calyx cordate. Tube of the 

 corol long and filiform, with smooth contracted mouth; segments 

 lanceolate, and larger than the erect stamens. Berries two-lobed. 



Flamma sylvarum. Rumph. amb. iv. IOj. t. 46? pretty good. 



This elegant, highly ornamental shrub is a native of the Moluccas, 

 and from thence was introduced into the Botanic Garden, where it 

 blossoms most part of the year. 



• I. longifoUa, Sir J. E. Smith in Rees's Cyclopsedia.— I. lanceoluia, Lam. Eiicycl* 

 Bot. ill. 313, exclus. oiuu. 'voon. prater Rumpbiiim.— N. W. 



