L96 PXNTAttURlA M0N0GYN1A." MorillJa, 



MORINDA- Schreb. Gen. N. 317- 



Tiowers aggregate. Calyx superior, five-toothed. Corol funnel- 

 shaped. Germ from two to four-celled ; cells one or two-seeded, 

 attachment interior. Stigma two-cleft. Berries aggregate. Embryo 

 erect, and furnished with a persperm. 



]. M. citrifolia,.7Villd. i. Spec. 992.— Gastt. carp. i. 144. t. 29* 



Arboreous, with a straight trunk. Leaves oblong, lucid. Pedun- 

 cles on the upper side of the branchlets, solitary, opposite to every 

 other solitary leaf, with a pair between. Anthers half hid in the 

 mouth of the tube. Fruit ovate, glossy, white. 

 ■ Cada-pilava, Rheed. ma I i. 97. t. 52. (good.) 

 . Ba-nducus latifolia, Rumph. amh. iii. 158. t. 99. 



An elegant small tree, with straight trunk, and numerous, decus- 

 sated, assurgent branches, a position they generally take from the 

 "weight of the fruit, and constant exuberant foliage. From Pegu it 

 has been introduced into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where it 

 'is in constant fruit, and flower the whole year. It does not appear 

 ■ to be a native of Bengal nor did I ever meet with it on the coast of 

 Coromandel ; but the species which I formerly considered as citri- 

 folia is common in both countries, and the description and drawings 

 thereof were sent to the honorable the court of directors. That 

 species, which however is quite distinct, I now call tinctoria, as it is 

 the sort most in use for dying. 



Bark of young trees, or their trunk, light ash-coloured and smooth; 

 young shoots somewhat four-cornered, smooth and lucid. — heaves 

 opposite to each other, or to a peduncle, short-petioled, from oblong 

 to oval, lucid, entire, rather obtuse; from five to ten inches long, and 

 from three to five broad. — Stipules large, semilunar, entire, smooth. 

 Peduncles solitary, opposite to a solitary leaf on the upper side of the 

 branchlets, erect, short, cylindric, smooth, each supporting a small 

 aggregate head of small white flowers.— Calyx an entire margin 

 * I emeir. cochincl). i. 174.— N. W. 



