186 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Urophyllum. 



ly one-third of an inch long, together with the elevated rib very vil- 

 lous Stipules very deciduous. Calyx villous on both sides. — 



Corolla divided almost to the bottom into five petal like segments. 

 ■ — Filaments inserted round the base of the fleshy disc of the ova- 

 rium, clavate and somewhat thicker at the apex ; anthers bilocu- 

 lar, apiculate. — Ovarium minute, five-celled, many-seeded. Style 

 cylindric, bifid ? stigmas simple ? — Berry almost globular, of the size 

 of a good pea ; vertex crowned with the persistent calycine laciniae, 

 and bearing in the centre the elevated vestige of the nectarial disc. — 

 l~)hsepimentsvery\\vm. Seeds extremely numerous and small, of a 

 deep purple colour, shining, globular, elegantly marked with minute 

 pentagonal pores as in Pomatium, Gaert. carp, suppl. 252. t. 225. 

 Integument crustaceous. 



2. U. glabntm, Wall. 



Smooth. Branches tetragonal, Calyx sub-entire. 



Native place, Pulo-Penang. 



Malay. Loda-Ulan. 



This species closely resembles the preceding, but is altogether 

 more slender and smooth— Branches four-sided, somewhat dicho- 

 tomous. — Leaves opposite, on short petiols, oblong-elliptic, or 

 lanceolate* about six inches in length, terminating in a linear acumen 

 not so long as in U. villosum ; smooth on both sides. Stipules long 

 linear, villous. Capitula axillary on short peduncles.— Flower pe- 

 dicelled — Bractes small, linear, without any appearance of an in- 

 volucrum. - Calyx forming an almost entire margin above the ova- 

 rium which is crowned with a glandular disc. Berries globose 

 smooth. — Jack's Mss. 



Obs. The leaves of this species are sub-acute, at the base ; their 

 Wins are more finely reticulate than in the preceding. Peduncles 

 slightly hairy, longer than in that species. 



