Cerbera. pentandria monogynia. 627 



Stem short, soon dividing, and sub-dividing into many, straight, 

 round, smooth, dichotomous branches, and brauch/ets. — Leaves op- 

 posite, often remote, short-petioled, from oblong to lanceolate, entire, 

 smooth, acuminate, about five or six inches long, and from two 

 to three broad. — Stipules interfoliaceous, acute, — Corymbs terminal 

 when they first appear ; but long before the whole of the blossoms 

 expand, a branchlet shoots forth on each side and places them in 

 the fork ; divisions sub-trichotomous and short. — Flowers large, 

 mouth of the tube lively red, the jest a bright lively pink, some- 

 what fragrant, and highly ornamental. — Bractes opposite, triangular, 

 acute. — Calyx five-leaved, leaflets oblong, smooth, permanent, a 

 smooth gland on the apex of each. — Coroi inFimdibuliforrn. Tube 

 nearly two inches long, and equally slender, except near the apex, 

 where it swells considerably, mouth highly coloured and hairy. 

 Border of five, obovate-oblong, equal segments — filaments five, 

 short, insetted round the bottom of the swelled top of the tube. 

 Anthers sagittate, entirely hid within the mouth of the tube. — 

 Germ two, villous, on the sides where they meet, a small subulate 

 scale covering the fissure on each side, singly two-ceiled, with one 

 ovulum in each, attached to the middle of the partition. Style near- 

 ly as long as the tube. Stigma large, with a two-lobed apex, which 

 is, lodged in the dome formed by the converging of the sagittate 

 anthers. — Drupe (in this lather capsule) generally solitary, obliquely 

 urn-shaped, size of the hist joint of the little finger, villous and 

 veined, dark greenish purple, apex truncate, sloping much to the 

 inner side, with a slit down the middle, semi-two-valved, opening 

 up the inside and along the apex, one-celled. Pulp scarcely any, 

 the whole substance being thin and somewhat fibrous. — Seeds so- 

 litary, ovate-oblong, Integument single, white, pretty thick, and 

 soh.—Perisperm none. — Enbryo erect. Cotyledons conform to 

 the seed, of a pale yellowish colour. Radicle ovate, superior. 



2. C. Odollam, Gaert. carp. ii. 193. t. 124. 



Leaves alternate, lanceolate, with transverse nerves, smooth. 

 Corymbs terminal, divisions of the calyx linear, and revolute. 



