Alyx'l** TENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. $3J* 



dicelled, one-seeded. Embryo erect, with echmate, lobed peris- 

 perm. 



1. A. steltata, R. 



Shrubby, often twining. Leaves tern, and quatern, oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, polished. Corymbs terminal, simple, recurved. 



Gynopogon stellatum, Forst. Prod. n. 47. Willd. spec. i. 1221? 



Pulassarium, Rumph. Amb. v. p. 32. t. 20. 



A native of Amboyna, and from thence brought to the botanic 

 garden at Calcutta in 1798, where it thrives well, blossoms about 

 the close of the rains in September, and ripens its fruit in the cool 

 season. 



Trunk scarcely any, but many, long, twining, straggling, or scan- 

 dent branches as they meet with support. Bark of the ligneous 

 parts ash-coloured, of the young shoots smooth, deep green. Every 

 part abounds in a milky juice. — Leaves tern, or quatern, short-pe- 

 tioled, oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, entire, of a deep shining green on 

 both sides ; with very slender, diverging, parallel veins ; length from 

 three to six inches. — Stipules, a small scale between the petioles. 

 ■ — Flowers many, small, pure white, collected in small, for the most 

 part, terminal, cymose fascicles.— Fractes short, cordate, rigid. — 

 Calyx deeply five-parted — Corol. Tube swelled at the base, and a 

 little below the mouth where the stamens are lodged, divisions of 

 the border nearly round, in the bud imbricated. — Filaments short. 

 Anthers sagittate, just within the mouth of the tube. — Germ two- 

 lobed, and with care separable without violence, each lobe one-cell- 

 ed, and containing three or four ovula, attached to the coiol. Stig- 

 ma slightly two-lobed. — Berries two, when both prove fertile, 

 which is rarely the case, short- pediceiltd, oval, size of a small cher- 

 ry, smooth, with a groove on the inside from the blunt-pointed apex to 

 the base, when ripe yellowish. Pulp in very small quantity ; one-ce.l- 

 «d. I have frequently found proliferous berries, that is a second, on a 

 short-pedicel, growing ivom the apex of the first, as in the genus 



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