Cqfea. TE1STAND1UA MONOGYNIA. L83 



]. C. tetrandra, R. 



Shrubby. Leaves broad-lanceolar, acute, lucid. Stipules bifVd. 

 Vedunctes axillary and terminal, several together, long, slender, one- 

 flowered. Flowers tetiaudrous. Corol with long, slender tube and 

 border 



Beng. Chilmaree. 



An erect, slender, ramous shrub, a native of St'fhet, Chittagong, 

 and the whole east border of Bengal, where it flowers in May, and' 

 the seeds ripen in October and November. 



Branchlets opposite, round, smooth, and slender — Leaves oppo- 

 site, short-petioled, broad-lanceolar, entire, acuminate, smooth, and 

 glossy on both side9 ; from four to five inches long, and scarcely 

 two. broad. — Stipules generally bifid ; segments subulate.— -Peduncles 

 terminal and axillary, several together, long, slender, straight, one- 

 flowered.— Calyx four- or five-toothed. — Tube of the corol long, 

 slender, somewhat clavate, smooth ; segments of the border four 

 or five, length of the tube, ensiforrn, spreading. — Filaments scarcely 

 any. Anthers four or rive, linear, inserted within the tube, their 

 apices even with its mouth. — Germ inferior, turbinate, two-celled, 

 with one ovule in each cell, attached to the middle of the partition*. 

 Style two-cleft. Stigmas simple. Berry inferior, round, size of a 

 small cherry, smooth, when ripe blackish purple, and with but a 

 small portion of pulp, one- or two-celled, generally one-celled, the 

 other cell being abortive, and then the berry has an oblique direction. 

 — Seeds solitary, when the berry is two-celled nearly round ; when 

 one-celled, flat on one-side a*'d convex on the other, in which case 

 there is a deep round cavity on the flat side. — Perisperm conform to 

 the seed, horny. — Embryo erect, very small, and lodged iu an oblique 

 direction in the middle of the convex side of the perisperm, with 

 the two reniform cotyledons pointing up and in, the oblong radicle* 

 out and down. 



2. C. arabica, JVilld. spec. i. 973. 



Leaves oblong, ovate, acuminate. Flowers axillary, crowded., 

 Stamina without the tube of the quinquifi-d corol. 



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