390 TETRAND«IA MONO^YNIA. Jxora. 



or that of this. It was oiigmally brought from China where it is caSU 

 ed Ta-moii-tang. 



6. 1. cuneifolla. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves broad-cuneate, lanceolate, pointed. Corymbs^ 

 terminal, long-peduucled. Floicers crowded ; negmeiits of ihe calvx 

 oblong, conic. 



A nntive of the country about Dacca, from thence the late 

 Colonel Peter Murray sent seeds to the Botanic Gaiden, where 

 the plants grow freely, blossom in March, and ripen then- seed in 

 August and September. 



Trunk short. Branches opposite, nearly erect, round, and covered 

 with smooth brown bark ; young shoots smooth, and green. — Leaves 

 opposite, short-petioled, broad, cuneate, lanceolate, recurved, entire, 

 taper, obtuse-pointed, firm and polished, somewhat bullate; length 

 from four to six inches, by one and a half or two hrozd.—-Slipules taper- 

 ing, subulate, poioted.— Corymbs terminal, long-peduncled, triclio- 

 tomous, alternate divisions ending in fascicles of sub-sessile, crowded, 

 pure white flowers, with a slight tinge of pink on the outside.— ^rac- 

 tes in opposite pairs, at the various divisions of the corymb and un- 

 der the calyx subulate.— i'Voei:.ers very numerous, pure white, fra- 

 grant. — Cali/r four-cleft to the base, divisions long, narrow and 

 acute. — Tube of the corol cylindric, very slender, three quarters of 

 an inch long ; the four segments of the border oblong and obtuse. — 

 FilaiJients from the inner edge of the tissures of the border of the 

 corol. — Anthers narrow, sagittate. — Germ oval, two-celled, with one 

 seed in each, attached to the middle of the partition. Stigma of 

 two linear lobes, elevated considerably above the mouth of the tube. 

 — Berry round, turbinate, size of a small cherry, when ripe bright 

 red, and smooth, two-celled. — Seed solitary, round, oval, convex on 

 the outside, with a large deep pit on the inner. Integuments two ; 

 exterior nuciform; 2w«fr membranaceous, and greenish. — Perisperni 

 conform to the seed. — Embryo erect, curved like the convex seed. 

 — Cotyledons reniform. Radicle cylindriC; length of ths cotyledons, 

 inferior. 



