Paederi*. PENtandrja monogynia. 019 



Stem and branches erect ; young shoots round, and smooth.— Leaves 

 Opposite, short-petioled, lanceolar, entire, acuminate, pretty smootli 

 on both sides, about si* inches long, and from two to three broad. 

 ^-Stipules as in the other mbiacea, with a subulate, hairy point.— 

 Corymbs termiua , recurved, brachiate, villous.— Bractes opposite, 

 ensiform. — Calyx five-cleft, hairy; segments conic, permanent. Coral 

 funnel-shaped. TubeiUe length of the border, widening to the mouth, 

 a little hairy on the outside. Border of five, contorted, obliquely ob- 

 Jong segments.— Filaments scarcely any. Anthers five, linear, erect, 

 attached below the middle to the mouth of the tube of the corol, and 

 their lower ends iu it. — Germ hairy, two-celled with one ovulttm ia 

 each, attached to the partition a little above its middle. Style the 

 length of the tube of the corol. Stigma simple, linear-clavate, longer 

 than the stamina. — Berry inferior, size and colour of a black currant, 

 when dry striated, crowned with the remaining calyx, two-celled. — • 

 Seeds solitary, the outside convex ; on the inside a deep pit filled with 

 the spongy receptacle. Integument single, thin. — Ve,risperm con- 

 form to the seed, hard, dull white. — Embryo lodged in the middle of 

 the convexity of the seed. Cotyledons., reniform, Radicle inferior. 



S. P. erect a, i?. 



Shrubby, erect. Leaves sub-sess,ile, broad-lanceolar, entire. Pa- 

 nicles in the terminal forks of the branc/ilets, erect. Stamina pro- 

 truded. 



An erect, shrubby plant ; a native of tbe Si'Ihet district. It flowers 

 ip May and June ; and the seeds ripen about the end of the rainy 

 and beginning of the cold season. 



Stems short, erect. Bark smooth, ash-coloured. Branches 

 round, smooth, and dichotomous, — Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, 

 broad-lanceolar, entire, smooth, ribbed with parallel veins under- 

 neath ; *from three to four inches long, by one and a half broad. — 

 Stipules iuterfoliaceous, as in other rubiacea.— rankles solitary iu 

 the fork of the branchlets, often longer than the leaves ; thin, being 

 composed c.f a few small, short, opposite ramifications.— Flowery 



