804 *ENTAttDRIA MOKOGYNIA. jEutkemb. 



by tlie shooting up of the stem from the base of the peduncle.- — 

 Flowers pedicellate, generally in pairs. — Bractes ovate, acute. — Calyic 

 inferior, five-leaved, spreading ; Leaflets ovate, obtuse, cijiaie, the two 

 inner one3 rather smaller. — Corolla white, sometimes tinged with 

 purple, five-petaled ; petals twice as long as the calyx, reflexed, 

 ovate-oblong, obtuse.- — Stamina five, inserted below the ovaiium ; 

 alternating with these are sometimes found five, short, abortive fkltf* 

 ments.— Filaments very short. — Anthers longer, erect, converging 

 round the style, oblong, prolonged into acumina which are sometimes 

 a little contorted, and which open at their summits by a pore; the 

 cells are adnate below to the sides of the filameut.— Ovary oblong, 

 acute. — Style filiform, erect, equal to the stamina. — Stigma simple. 

 Berry snow-white, globular, obscurely angled, crowned with the 

 persistent style, which is obliquely derlexed ; of a spongy or farinose 

 substance, containing in the centre five seeds, which are disposed 

 round the axis, and enclosed in arilli, composed of tough longitudi- 

 nal fibres. — Seeds (pyretiae ?) oblong, somewhat reniform, hard. — 

 Albumen conform to the seed. — Embryo inverse, cylindrical, nearly 

 as long as the seed. Cotyledons seini cylindric, obtuse. Radicle 

 superior, longer than the cotyledons. 



The branches are terminated by long corniculate buds in which 

 the gemmation is involute. — W. Jack, 1. cit. 



2. E minor, TV. J. 



Leaves narrow-lanceolate, slightly serrulate. Racemes undivided. 

 Berry red, angular, acuminate. 



Found at Singapore along with the preceding. 



This is a smaller shrub than the former, branched and smooth.— 

 Leaves alternate, petiolate, linear-lanceolate, rather obtuse with a 

 mucro, attenuated towards the petiol, slightly serrulate, very smooth, 

 shining, finely striated with transverse veins. — Petioles short, thick- 

 ened at the base, channelled above. — Stipules linear, ciliate. — Ra- 

 cemes simple, erect, at first terminal, becoming afterwards lateral. 



