522 pentandiuA MONOGYNIA- Carissa. 



and highly ornamental as well as fragrant. I am not aware that it is us- 

 ed for any economical purposes.* 



Trunk eiect, straight, covered with smoothish, dark-coloured 

 bark.— Branches numerous, opposite, decussated, spreading, horizou- 

 | tal, forming a iarge, beautiful, shady, evergreen head. — Leaves op- 

 posite; petioled, neariy decussate, obovate, sometimes cordate at the 

 base; entire, smooth, from six to nine inches long, and from four 

 to six broad. — Petiols round, coloured, about an inch and a half 

 long. — Stipules large, within the leaves, oblong, spreading. — Cymes 

 opposite, axillary, long-peduncled, twice two-forked. — Peduncles 

 round, a little miiected, from three to four inches long. — Bractes many, 

 linear, obtuse, caducous. — Flowers sessile, from fifteen to twenty on. 

 the cjnie, large, white, and exquisitely flagrant, partaking much of 

 the fragrance of clove*. — Calyx cup-shaped, entire, permanent'. — . 

 Carol. Tube cylindric, an inch and a half long. "Throat woolly. 

 Border from six. to nine-eleft. — Filaments none. Anthers as many 

 as there are divisions in the border of the corol, linear, within the 

 mouth of the tube. — Germ inferior. Style a little shorter than the 

 tube. Stigma nearly globose. — Pericarp a dry drupe, nearly glo- 

 bose, pretty smooth, inwardly of a fibrous, woody texture, contain- 

 ing as many curved cells as there were anthers, or divisions in the 

 border of the corol. — Seeds one in each cell, much curved, concave 

 part of the curvature outward. 



Obs. I have at various times examined many hundreds of the 

 flowers of tins tree, and never found any that were hermaphrodile. 

 If agrees better in habit asid in most other respects, the seed ves- 

 sels excepted, with Gardenia than with any other genus I have mec 

 with, 



CA RISSAj Schreb, gen. N. 413. 



Cah/x five-toothed. Corol funnel shaped. Germ superior, two- 



cellwd, ceils .two- to t'our-secded ; attachment interior. Berry two- 



* I have received abundance of specimens fr«m Pinang, which I suppose were taken from 

 spontaneous trees. Time of flowering ti»e kttar months cf tLe year. — N. W. 



