376 PENTANDIUA MONOGYNIA. CaSSine. 



slightly succulent at first, afterwards dry, tri-coccous. — Seeds brown 

 shining, oblong, with gibbous back, obscurely two. sided within, which 

 gives it the appearance of being three-sided. External integument 

 crusfaceous; internal chartaceous, lined within by a brownish muci- 

 laginous pulpy membrane. Perisperm white, amygdaline, entirely 

 surrounding the embryo, which it receives into its transversal, slight- 

 ly curved, compressed cavity. — Cotyledons large, round-cordate, three- 

 nerved. Radicle cylindric, inferior. — The rest as in C. amencana, 

 Ga;rin. carpol. ii. 110. t. 106.— N. W. 



3. C. triquelra, If all. 



Shrubby, unarmed. Leaves elliptic-ovate, finely acuminate, 

 sharply serrulate, acute at the base, with parallel pubescent ribs 

 underneath which are villous at the axils. Peduncles axillary, shortj 

 fascicled, one-flowered. Capsule acutely three-cornered. 



An inhabitant of the mountains about Shreem*g?jr, from whence it 

 was sent to me by my plant collectors. 



I have not seen the flowers, but I doubt not that the shrub is a 

 new species of Ceanothus. The branches are round. Leaves as 

 much as six inches long, villous while young. Stipules villous, lan- 

 ceolate, very deciduous. — Capsules rather smaller than those of the 

 last species, with very prominent, flattened angles. — N. W. 



CASSINE, Linn. 



Calyx five-cleft. Corolla five-petalled, or deeply five-cleft, alter- 

 nating with the calyx and stamens. Stigmas from three to five. Ber- 

 ry three- or five-celled, three- or five-seeded. 



3.C. excelsa, Wall. 



Arboreous. Leaves alternate, acuminate, most entire, with an acute 

 base. Umbels axillary and lateral, rounded, many-rlowered. Stigmas 

 five. Berry five-seeded. 



In the Linnean system it has been usual to place this genus in Pm« 



