204 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNiA- Loranthus. 



9. M. polysperma, W. J. 



Tetrandrous. Peduncles axillary and terminal. Coroh four-cleft, 

 hairy within. Leaves ovate, acuminate. Berries two-celled, many- 

 seeded. 



Found in the Island of Singapore. 



A shrub, with short, sub-dichotomous, flexuose branches. Leaves 

 opposite, petiolate, ovate, acuminate, obtuse at the base, very smooth, 

 coriaceous, flat, about three inches long. Stipules short, interpetio- 

 lar. Peduncles axillary and terminal ; axillary ones opposite ; 

 terminal ones from one to four in a kind of umbel. Capitula few- 

 flowered. Calyx, an entire margin. Corolla infundibuliform, four- 

 parted, densely covered within with white hairs. Stamina four, 

 shorter than the corolla ; filaments short ; anthers linear, style erect. 

 Stigma bifid. Berries coadunate, two-celled, many-seeded ! Seeds 

 numerous, angular. 



Obs. The flowers of this species are perfectly similar to those of 

 the preceding, but the fruit presents a singular anomaly in being 

 polyspermous. Both differ so much from the other species of 

 Morinda that I think they might properly constitute a new and dis- 

 tinct genus. — W. Jack, I. cit- 



Note by N. TV. 

 I have met with this singular species in abundance near the sea- 

 shore, some miles from the town of Singapore. It is a large climber, 

 running over shrubs and even small trees ; its branches are some- 

 times radicant. 



LORANTHUS* Scfireb. Gen. 600. 



Calyx uncertain. Corol generally one-petalled, and often irregu- 

 lar. Germ inferior, one-ceiled, one-seeded, attachment superior. 

 Berry one-seeded. Embruo inverse, and furnished with a perisperm. 



* This Germs is usually placed in Hexandria cionogynia, but as Dr. Roxburgh in the last 

 •opy he made of the Flora Tndica, before he left this country, removed it to Pentandria, it 

 is printed wheie he then placed it. Ed. 



