Schoepfia. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 189 



fleshy and fragile, vehiless, shining, dark green above, turning yel- 

 lowish by age, paler underneath, with a lew obscure, oblique, capilla- 

 ry nerves which are slightly reticulate under the margins.— Petiols 

 8bout three lines long, fun owed above, jointed at the base and fal- 

 ling of immediately ou being dried. — Stipules none. — Flowets 

 yellow, exquisitely fragrant, even after being dried, disposed iu axil- 

 lary, simple, solitary, sub-sessile racemes, which are about hall the 

 length of the leaves. — Peduncle and rachis slender, rounded^ naked, 

 except at the base, where the former is surrounded by a few bud- 

 scales, which sometimes adscend a little above it, and in that case ap- 

 pear like small, sub-pedicellate, ovale, thick, gibbous bractes. Pedi- 

 cels six or seven, filiform, half an inch long, sub-clavate. Calyx dou- 

 ble, according to authors ; each of them small, one-leafed : one Under- 

 neath, which 1 call a calyciform bracte, terminating the pedicel and 

 immediately supporting the ovary, divided into two or three unequal, 

 ovate, membrane-margined, acute segments ; the largest of which is 

 sometimes two- or three-toothed ; the other (true calyx) above, crown- 

 ing the ovary in the shape of an exceedingly narrow, entire margin. 

 -r-L'ofolla somewhat fleshy, infundi'ouliform ; tube cylindric, nearly 

 half an inch long, with a sub-pentagonal basis ; the apex widening 

 iuto a five-cleft border, whose laeinia? are lanceolate, acute, scarcely 

 unequal ; throat open, marked under the base of each lacinias with a 

 small fascicle of erect succulent hairs, which conceal the filament- 

 Aestivation valvate. — Filaments exceedingly short, erect, inserted 

 immediately under the above-mentioned fascicle of hairs opposite 

 the laciniae, and from thence decurrent in the shape of capillary 

 lines ; anthers ovate, erect, bilocular, situated in the throat of the 

 corolla. — Ovarium fleshy, oblong, considerably longer than either 

 of the calyces, measuring about three lines, three-celled, three- 

 seeded : ovufa cylindric, pendulous from the apex of the axis, short- 

 er than the cells ; its vertex is covered by a fleshy, conical, obtuse 

 di*c, which is prominent within the supeiior calyx. —Style filiform, 

 as long as the tube. Stigma clavate, fleshy, three«lobed. — Drupe 

 baccate, oblong, obtuse, smooth, pale-yellow, almost white, about 

 the size of a very small olive, supported by the inferior, persistent 



