532 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. llunteria, 



Jul}' ; in Bengal, in May, but in the latter place it has not ripened 

 its seed. 



Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong and lanceolate, obtuse- 

 pointed, entire, smooth on both sides, from three to four inches Ions;, 

 and one or two broad. — Stipules none, but a swelling on the inside 

 of the base of the petiole. — Corymb terminal, decussate. — Flowers 

 numerous, small, white. — Calyx one-leaved, five-parted, permanent:, 

 segments ovate. — Coral one»petioled,, funnel-shaped- Tube two or 

 thiec tunes longer than the calyx, gibbous at the base, and swelled a 

 little at the mouth. — Border contorted, five-parted, divisions oblique- 

 ly ovatf-obiong, m the bud spirally imbricated. — Nectary a fleshy 

 ring round the base of the germ — Filaments five, very short. Art- 

 tilers ovate, lodged in the swelled part of the tube, just within its 

 mouth — Germ superior, ovate, two-lobed, two-celled, with two 

 ovula in each, attached with their base to the bottom of the parti- 

 tion. Style nearly the length of the tube of the corol. Stigma 

 ovate, short, with a two-lobed apex.— Berries two, perfectly distinct, 

 singly somewhat of a roundish ovate shape, short-pedicelled, size of 

 a cherry, pulpy, when ripe orange-coloured, one°celled. — Seeds two 

 in each berry. 



Obs. The whole of the generic character of this plant, agrees 

 so well with that of Carissa, as it stands in the various editions of 

 the Genera Plantarum, that I have seen (Jussieu's excepted) as 

 to leave no doubt with those, who still may think two berries are 

 the produce of one flower in that genus, that this ought to be con- 

 sidered a species thereof. But in all the Indian species of Carissa,* 

 that 1 have yet met with, the pericarpium is uniformly single. As 

 therefore this plant cannot be placed in the same family, I think it bet- 

 ter to continue the former generic name (Carissa,) to the well known 

 thorny plants described under that genus, for I have not yet met with 

 any of the unarmed species, consequently cannot say what their 

 pericarps may be. I consider this to be a well defined, perfectly dis- 

 tinct genus, and have named it aftef Dr. William Hunter of the 

 * To which, with the celebrated Jussieu I would join Arduina. 



