2C<5 PENTANBRIA MOKOGYNIA. Morinda* 



supporting a round aggregate head of many pure white, jasmine-like 

 flowers. In very luxuriant young plants 1 have found the peduncles 

 two- or even three-cleft, with a head of flowers on each division. — 

 Calyx scarcely any.— Corol funnel-shaped. Border of five, equal, 

 lanceolate, fleshy, expanding divisions. — Filaments inserted on the 

 mouth of the tube, in the division of its margin; erect. Anthers 

 linear. Germ beneath, four-celled, with one ovule. Style length of 

 the tube of the corol. Stigma even with its mouth and two-cleft. — 

 Berry (rather drupe) aggregate, oval. — Seeds or nut regularly four 

 and distinct to each proper berry, forming a square, inserted pyra- 

 mid, each one-seeded. Here the abortive cell is scarcely visible. 

 Obs. This species is immediately known by its exsert stamens, half- 

 concealed stigma, and broad-pointed leaves. In all the other species 

 figured and described by me, viz. citri fob a, tinctoria, bracteata, mul- 

 tijlora, and angust'flora the stamens are enclosed, and the style 

 exserted. 



5. M. multiflora, R. 



Sub^arboreous. Leaves opposite, f oblong-ventricose, downy. Pe-. 

 duncles terminal and leaf-opposed, compound. Anthers within j 

 stigma exert. 



Aal the vernacular name at Nagpore. 



A native of Berar. From Nagpore the seed was sent by Mr. 

 Colebrooke, Resident at the Couit of Rwghoojee Bum\a, to the 

 JUotauic Garden at Calcutta in ]801. By the close of the same 

 year the plants were in blossom, and in one year more they have 

 grown to large ramous shrubs, and now in eight years they are small 

 trees and in constant flower ; I may farther remark that notwith- 

 standing all the other four species of Morinda already described and 

 figured by me, grow to be small trees, they generally blossom the 

 first year of their growth if the soil is good and the plants taken 

 good care of. 



Leaves very short-petioled, opposite, or opposite to a peduncle, 

 oval, tapering at each end, acute, margins waved; downy on both 

 sides ; particularly underneath ; from four to six inches long,, and from 



