i-Vard, TETilAND?.IA MONOGTNIA. SOj 



OI)s. Ve Ill's figure of l.parvij^oi'a, Sj/mhol Bot. iii. /. 52, is much 

 like ihis plaul ; his description however agrees belter witii wliat I 

 have alwavs co'isuleied to be lus parvijiora and which is so labelled 

 in Sir Ji;sei li Ba-.ks's herbariuin. Ihey diirer in the following 

 respects, Tl^at (I, parvijiora) is a tree, this a ihrub ; in that the 

 leaves are linear oblong with a cordate base, of a nuich firmer 

 texture, and more polished ; in this they taper for two-thirds of 

 their leugdi to the base (lience the specific nunie ciuicijolia.) la 

 ;hu.l the segments ot the calyx are short and obtuse, in this long and 

 acule. Jn that tiie berries are round and black ; in tins short, tur- 

 binate and red. The coi} nibs also differ somew hat. In both species 

 tlie flowers are white, but in this much larger. 



7 I. hrachiala. Jl. 



Shrubby. Leaves short-petioled, lanceolar. Panicles brachiate, 

 with remote, diverging branches. 



A stout shrub, a native of the forests of Bengal. In the Botanic 

 darden it tlowers in March, and the seeds ripen in Mav. 



Trunk erect. Branches opposite, spreading much, but they are not 

 so numerous as in \. parvijiora. Bark brown, and pretty smooth. — 

 heaves opposite, short-petioled, lanceolar, obtuse, smooth, of a hard 

 texture, from four to six inches long, by less than two broad. — Sti- 

 pules triangular, acute. — Panicles terminal, brachiate ; ramifications 

 few, remote on long, round, smooth peduncles. — Z'/ow^rs numer- 

 ous, minute, much smaller than in J. parvijiora. — Cct/yx small, deeply 

 four-tootiied, coloured. — Corol with a filiform tube ; segments of the 

 border obovale, emarginate. — Filaments none. Anthers linear, at- 

 tached by their backs to the bottom of the fissures of the border of 

 the corol. — Germ turbinate, two-celled, with one seed in each, at- 

 tached to the partition. Stijle scarcely longer than the tube. Stigma 

 large, two-lobed.— JSc'ryj/ the size of a large pea, smooth, succulent, 

 dark brown purple, two-celled. — Seeds solitary, round, convex, on 

 the outside concave, with a pit on tiie inner. Integuments two, 

 uterior white, hard, thin, and elastic 5 inner tender and thin.— 



