378 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. CctSsine. 



thers ovate, two-celled, inserted on the middle of their back, 



Ovary above, fleshy, smooth, ovate, acute and tapering into a style- 

 like, short, thick neck. Stigmos five, subulate, spieaciing, stedate. 

 J'erigynous disc none. — Berry axillary, globose, as large as a cur- 

 rant, yellow, pulpy, crowned with the sessile, closely adpressed, 

 flattened, stellate stigma, and supported by the small, sub-oibiculai - , 

 five-lobed rudiment of the calyx ; five-celled, five-seeded. Seeds 

 oblong, triangular, with convex back, slightly curved lengthways, 

 about as large as a carroway-seed, enveloped in a yellow, chaila- 

 ceous integument ; the upper, rounded, broadest end marked vuih a 

 ■very small depressed umbilicus. Perispe m fiesny, semi- pel .ucui, 

 conform to the seed, enveloped in a proper brownish peliicle. — Em* 

 iryo iniik-white, very small, situated in a short cyliudnc cavity ai the 

 top of the perisperm, inverted, as in C. Maurocenia, Gaert. Carp, 

 ii. 70. t. 92. 



Obs. Notwithstanding the rotate corolla and the increased num- 

 ber of the stigmas and seeds I have no hesitation in referring ihjs 

 fine tree to Cassine, What I have called above the neck or apex of 

 the ovary I took at first to be the style ; a supposition which is scarce- 

 ly compatible with the siigma of the berry being decidedly sessile. 

 — N. W. 



/ 2. C. discolor, Wall. 



Arboreous. Leaves opposite, ovate-acuminate, tapering much 

 downwards, whitish underneath, most entire. Fascicles axillary, di- 

 chotomous. Stigmas four. 



A middling-sized tree, native of the mountains bordering on Stlhet, 

 where it blossoms in January. 



Branches opposite, spreading, round, brown, scabrous, with nu- 

 merous, callous, small dots ; younger ones slender, slightly compres- 

 sed at the insertion of the leaves.— Buds subulate, with opposite keel- 

 ed scales.— Leaves opposite, spreading, rather longer than their in- 

 terstices, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, terminated by a long, blunted, 

 linear acumen* perfectly entire, somewhat waved, tapering and acute 



