300 FENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Myrsine. 



rent \ filaments subulate, fleshy, marked ou tlie inside with a longitu- 

 dinal furrow. Anthers erect, rather large, bilocular, with cordate 

 base. Ovarium conical, acute, without any surrounding disc; one- 

 ceiled ; otula two, opposite, sub-immersed, on an erect, globular, fleshy 

 placenta, plated a little above its middle. Style thick, short. Stig- 

 Wia orbiculate sub-infundibulifonn, rugose. 



Obs. The imbricate aestivation and hermaphrodite four-petalled 

 flowers have induced me rather to bring it under the polymorphous 

 genus Myrsine than under Embdia* — N. W. 



6. M. aurantiaca, Wall. 



Shrubby, climbing, smooth. Leaves thick and leathery, ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, entire. Racemes axillary, tetrandrous, four-petalled; fila- 

 ments very long. 



A single male shrub was produced in 1803 in the botanic garden 

 from seeds sent by the late Dr. He)ne from the Peninsula. It 

 blossomed for the first time in March 1815, and has coutiuued ever 

 since produciug male flowers annually. 



A large rambling branchy shrub, climbing over a considerable tree, 

 ■with a stem about two inches and a half thick, covered with grey, 

 pretty smooth bark; branches slender, round, long, pendulous, 

 smooth, grey; when young they are rigid, sometimes quite leafless, 

 refracted, forming a sort of inoffensive spines on the stem and larger 

 branches.- — Leaves scattered irregularly, sub-bifarious, somewhat 

 pendulous, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute at both ends, dark 

 green ; lucid above, opaque underneath, with an elevated rib; destitute 

 of nerves and veins; with sharp, sub-membranous, slightly recurved 

 margins; perfectly smooth, tough, leathery, dotted when viewed under 

 the lens, from three to five inches long.— Petiuls slender, round, 

 somewhat twisted, sharply but not deeply chaunelled,an inch long. — • 

 Flowers inodorous, orange-coloured, forming small, oblong, obtuse, 

 sessile, axillary racemes, equalling the petiols m length. Rachii angular, 

 slender; the small lanceolate, concave, persistent bractlets, very short 

 pedicels and calyces are beset with minute, gjaudular dots.— Calyx verj 



