£,CttS0mi& yENTANDKlA MOKOGYNIA." ?f 



cles axillary, supporting four sessile heads of involucred flowers. 

 'Stamina, and style much longer than the corol. Berry four-seeded. 



Teling. Yerra-kwlha. 



A native of various parts of the coast of Coromandel. Flowerin" 

 time tlie cool season ; seed ripe in March and April. 



Stems ligneous, twining to a great extent ; young shoots round, 

 clothed with soft, white pubescence; and discharging a milky juice 

 when wounded. — Leaves petioled, round-cordate, entire, smooth 

 above, woolly underneath ; from three to six inches long, and from 

 two to five broad. — Peduncles axillary, generally solitary, longer 

 than the petioles, round, woolly ; each supporting an umbellet of 

 four, cruciform, sessile heads of small, pink-coloured, sessile flowers. 

 with a single sessile one in the centre ; surrounded with several, 

 roundish woolly bractes, (involucres,) with incurved margins. — 

 Calyx, leajieis unequal, cuneiform, woolly on the outside. — Corol 

 campanulate. Border deeply cut into five, emarginate lobes. — Sta- 

 mina much longer than the corol, and of the same colour. — Germ 

 surrounded with a particularly large, yellow, nectarial ring. Style 

 as long as the stamina. Stigma of two, large, round lobes.— Berry 

 round, covered with a soft, tough, smooth, fleshy, bright- red enve- 

 lope, about the size of a marrow-fat pea, two-celled, with two seeds 

 in each, when all come to maturity. The remaining calyx is now r en- 

 larged, and clothed on the out side with sericeous down, while the 

 smooth bright red, inner surface thereof adds much to the beauty of 

 this elegant species when in fruit. — Seeds smooth, pale ash-colour- 

 ed- Embryo as in the genus.* 



* I have had this distinct species from my highly respected friend the Rev- Dr. 

 J. Rottler under the name of Conv. orixensis, Klein el Kottl. who found the plant in 

 Orissa, Ceylon, and Mysore. The following- is the specific character attached to the 

 specimens " Canle non volubili cinereo-tomentoso ; foliis cordato-ovatis, obtasis cum 

 aciimioe, nervosis, subtus cinereo-tamentosis supra viridibus,floribus pafljculatis,"-* 

 N. W. 



