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two to three broad.— Stipules interfoliaceous. — Peduncles variously 

 disposed, viz. axillary, opposite to a leaf, and terminal, one or more 

 from tlie same place, and often compound ; round, villous, from tv\o 

 to four inches long. — Heads sub-globular, many-flowered. — Recep- 

 tacles, calyx and corol as in the genus. Filaments short. Anthers 

 linear, their apices even with the mouth of the tube of the corol.— 

 Stigma two-cleft, and extended considerably beyond the anthers. — ■ 

 Berry, rather drupe, aggregate, ovate-oblong ; surface very unequal, 

 size of a large mulberry. — Seeds or nuts regularly four to each pro- 

 per berry or drupe of the compound fruit, obliquely wedge-shaped ; 

 three-celled, two of them empty, the third with a single seed, as 

 accurately described and rigured by Gaertner in Morinda citrifolia. 

 Obs. The plant is cultivated about Nagpore as the other species 

 are in various other parts of India, and for the same purpose (see 

 Asiat- Res. iv. 35 — 44.) 



6. M. anguslifolia, R. 



Shrubby, erect. Leaves opposite to each other or to a peduncle, 

 ianceolar, bullate. Heads solitary. Flowers numerous. Anthers 

 concealed deep within the tube ; stigma exsert. Berries distinct, on 

 a glomerate receptacle, succulent, four-seeded. 



An erect, thinly branched shrub, was found at Chiltagong by Dr. 

 Buchanan, and from thence sent to the Botanic Garden at Calcutta 

 in 1798, where it blossoms in March, and the seeds ripen in May. 



Trunk straight, with a few erect branches. Bark light ash-colour- 

 ed ; height of the whole plant about four or Jive feet. — Leaves op- 

 posite, or single when a pt duncle occupies the place of the other, 

 sub-seasile, recurved, lanceolate, bullate, smooth, entire, about six 

 inches long and less than two wide. Stipules opposite, sub-cordate, 

 interfoliaceous, united into a ring and remaining long after their 

 respective leaves drop. Feduncles solitary, short, seemingly termi« 

 nal when they begin to blossom, but soon after the branchlet shoots 

 out from between each peduncle and its respective opposite leaf 



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