PINCKNEYA. 



PINCKNEYA. 



Calyx 5-parted, the fifth lobe expanded into a coloured leaf. 

 Corolla with a cylindrical tube, and a 5-cleft limb, the lobes of 

 which are recurved and spreading. Stamens inserted at the 

 base of the tube, exserted ; anthers oblong. Capsule roundish, 

 compressed, 2-celled, dehiscing through the cells. Seeds sur- 

 rounded by a wing, which is emarginate at the base. 



863. P. pubens Mich.fl. bor. amer i. 103. t. 13. Elliott 

 sketch, i. 268. DC. prodr. iv. 366. C. caroliniana Poir. diet. 

 vi. 40. Wet boggy soils in South Carolina and Florida, along 

 the sea coast. 



A large shrub, 15-20 feet high; young branches downy. Leaves 

 lanceolate, slightly acuminate, hairy, but shining above, downy beneath; 

 petioles about an inch long, downy. Panicles terminal and axillary, 

 composed of 5 flowered fasicles. The 1-arge leaf of the calyx veiny, 

 and rose-coloured ; sometimes 2 lobes are enlarged. Corolla downy, 

 the tube dull green, the border purple, with obtuse segments. Bark 

 febrifugal, and used in Carolina as a substitute for Cinchona. 



Tribe II. GARDENIE^. 



Fruit baccate, ^-celled, or by abortion I -celled. Cells many- 

 seeded. Albumen fleshy. Seeds not winged. Trees or shrubs. 

 Leaves opposite. Stipules between the petioles. DC. 



RANDIA. 



Limb of calyx 5-lobed. Corolla salver-shaped, with a short 

 tube, and a 5-parted limb. Anthers inclosed, sessile, within the 

 throat. Stigmas 2 thick. Berry nearly dry, crowned by the 

 calyx, corticated, 2-celled, many-seeded. Seeds fixed to the 

 central placenta, imbedded in pulp, and imbricated downwards. 

 Spiny shrubs, with conspicuous flowers. 



864. R. dumetorum Lam. ill t. 156. f. 4. DC. prodr. iv. 385. 

 Canthium coronatumZaw. diet i. 602. Gardenia dumetorum 

 Retz. obs. ii/14. Roxb. corom. t. 136. Gardenia spinosa Linn, 

 suppl. 164. Randia spinosa Blume bjjdr. 981. Posoqueria du- 

 metorum Roxb. fl. ind. i. 714. Common on the coast of Coro- 

 mandel. 



A thorny branching shrub or small tree. Leaves oval, rather blunt* 

 cuneate at the base, smooth. Flowers very sweet-scented, sessile, 

 solitary, mostly terminal. Calyx with oblong lobes rather shorter than 

 the villous corolla. Fruit smooth, yellow, resembling a small crab- 

 apple, firm, and fleshy. Seeds oval, numerous, lying in mucus. The 

 fruit when bruised and thrown into water intoxicates, or even kills fish, 

 which are not considered less wholesome in consequence. In the form 

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