S74 PENTANDRlA MONOGYNIA. CecnctlaiS. 



Grossularia spinis vidua, baccis in racemo congestis spadiceis 

 foliis crenatis ovato-acuminatis. — Burm. Zevl. 111. t. 48. 



Rhamnus acuminata, Colebr. Mss. fide ic. pict. inhorto bot. Calc. 

 asservata. 



1 have found this small tree in flower and fruit in October at Sin- 

 gapore. In the Hon. Company's botanic garden, where it was intro- 

 duced from the garden at Reduite in the Mauritius in 1813, it blos- 

 soms in April and May, and ripens its fruit in June. 



A small branchy tree or large shrub: the largest of those that 

 were reared from the seeds measure at the present time (1823), about 

 sixteen feet in height, with a stem scarcely more than four inches in 

 diameter. Branches long, slender, round, with green bark, slightly 

 flexuose, perfectly smooth 5 while young a little pubescent.— Leases 

 irregularly scattered, ovate, or pvate-lanceolate, tapering into a 

 blunt acumen ; serrulate, serratures smaH, gibbous, incurved, cus, 

 pidate, slightly undulate, base rounded or retuse, from two to three 

 inches long; perfectly smooth, very glossy and lucid, of a dark green 

 colour above ; pallid and shining underneath, with a whitish slender rib 

 and a few oblique nerves, the lowermost pair of which are opposite ; 

 the base rising a little above the rib, in consequence of which the leaf 

 appears tripli-nerved ; veins capillary, transversal, reticulate. — Pe- 

 iial slender, a little compressed, channelled, slightly pubescent, about 

 an inch long. — Stipules minute, withering, adpressed, lanceolate, 

 with a broad fleshy base and glandular apex.— Flowers small, 

 yellowish green, fragrant, collected in rounded, axillary, ramous fas- 

 cicles which are shorter than the petals. — Peduncles pubescent; 

 trades very small; pedicels capillary, two or three times longer than 

 the flower, yellowish.— Calyx cup- shaped, with five broad, cuspidate, 

 somewhat margined, deciduous lacinia, equalling in length the cu- 

 neate, fornicate, narrow petals. Vertex of the ovary covered with a 

 broad rugose yellow disc Style short, deeply three-lobed, decidu- 

 ous. — Stigmas convex, scabious. — Capsules rouud-obovate, about 

 the size of a small gooseberry, pale-brown, its vertex retuse, its base 

 supported by the persistent circularly-truncate bottom of the calyx, 



