58 DiDYNAMiA ANGiosPERMi A. Volkameria. 



the flowers only, consequently, the same description serves for 

 both. 



Trunk from six to ten feet hig-h,and as thick as a man's 

 thigh, near houses it is so much cut for firewood, &c. so that 

 the size cannot be determined by such plants. Bark lii>ht 

 ash-colour. Leaves opposite, petioled, broad-cordate, scollop- 

 dentate, downy, one or two inches each way. Petioles round, 

 downy, half the length of the leaves. Florvers numerous, 

 from the extremities and exterior axills, forming' a large lea- 

 fy panic le ; peduncles generally three-parted. Bractes oval, 

 petioled. 



2. C. inerme, Gcert. Sem. i. t. 75. 



Shrubby, scandent. Leaves oval, entire, smooth. Pedun- 

 cles three flowered. Berries dry, turbinal, four-partible. 



Volkameria inermis. Willd. iii. 303. 



Nir notvjil. liheed. MaL v. t. 4.9. 



Jasminuni littoreum. Rnmph. Amb. v. t. 46. 



£eng. Bun jumat. 



A large, ramous, often scandent shrub, delighting' in a salt, 

 sandy soil, near the sea. Flo^vering- time, the cold season 

 chiefly. 



Leaves opposite, or nearly so, sometimes three- fold, 

 shorf-petioled, oval, smooth, entire, fleshy ; both sides dotted 

 with luunerous minute, dark green dots; from one to two 

 inches lung'. Slipules none. Peduncles axillary, solitary, 

 generally three-flowered. Calijx small, five-toothed. Ca- 

 rol; tube widening a little near the apex ; border of five, dis- 

 tinct, equidistant, roundish segments. Fruit dry, pear-shap- 

 ed, four-partible. Seeds solitary. 



VOLKAMERIA. Schreb. gen. N. 1056. 



Calyx five-cleft. Carol one-petalled, with unilateral seg- 

 ments, opposite to the long curved stamina. Germ superior, 

 seems four-celled : cells one-seeded ; attachment sub-interior. 



