ON THE PLANT MORIXDA. 21 



N^us makes the essential character of the compound 

 flowers to consist in having all the anthers united: 

 thus restricting it to his class of Syngenesia. This 

 not only excludes the Morinda, but ought perhaps t 

 have, strictly speaking, excluded the Kuhuia, Iva, and 

 Ambrosia: and even, allowing the approximated an- 

 thers in these genera to come within the meaning of 

 the definition, it seems unaccountable that the JSau- 

 clea ( a J, which appears so well entitled to a place in 

 one of these orders, should be excluded from both. 



The Aal is a tree of middling size ; the root 

 branchy ; the trimk columnar, erect, covered with 

 a scabrous bsrk. 

 Branches from the upper part of the trunk, scattered; 



of the structure of the trunk. 

 Leaves (seminal) oval, obtuse, entire. 



(mature) opposite, decussated, ovate, pointed 

 at both ends, smooth, with very short 

 petioles. 

 Stipules lanced very small, withering. 

 Peduncles, from the axils of the leaves, solitary, 

 bearing an aggregate flower. Calyx: common re- 

 ceptacle roundish, collecting the sessile flowers into 

 an irregular head. 



Vermuth most entire, scarce observable above. 

 Coral, onc-petaled, funnel-form; Tube cylindric ; 



Border five cleft ; the divisions lanced. 

 Stamen: Filaments five, thread-form, arising from 

 . the tube, and adhering to it through two thirds 

 of their length, a little shorter than the tube. 



(a) The Cadam of the Hindoos. 



C 3 Anth. 



