6&& { PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Gardetlltt, 



Sect. Qd. Armed. 



9. G. montane,, R. 



Arboreous. Leaves oblong-ventricose, downy underneath, termi. 

 rial, short-peduncled. Stamens within the belly of the tube. Berry 

 drupaceous, sub-rotund ; shell from five- to six-valved. 



Telinga. Telia kakisha. 



A small, ramous tree ; armed with strong, short, acute thorns ; a 

 native of the Circar mountains. Learn deciduous in December. It 

 flowers about the beginning of the hot season, viz. March and April, 

 soon after which the leaves appear. Bark white, soft and spungy. 



Thorns above the axils, opposite, spreading, short, but sharp; 

 sometimes they are wanting. — Leaves opposite on the young shoots, 

 fascicled on the older, nearly sessile, oblong, obtuse, entire, with the 

 margins revolute, above shining and smooth, a little downy underneath, 

 thiee inches long, by two broad. — Stipules annular, within the leaves, 

 membranous. — Flowers three, four, five, or six, from little buds 

 about the extremities of the naked branclilets, pretty large, very fra- 

 grant, when first open white, but soon becoming more or less yellow. 

 — Peduncles shoi t, one-flowered. — Calyx small, somewhat five-tooth- 

 ed, permanent. — Corol. Tube short, somewhat gibbous; throat 

 smooth. Border from five- to seven-cleft; divisions wedge-shape J, 

 emarginate. — Filaments none. Anthers in number equal to s the seg- 

 ments of the border of the Mowers, linear, entirely within the tube. 

 '—Nectary a monifiform, fleshy ring surrounding the insertion of the 

 style. The stigma just appears within the tube. — Berry the size of 

 a pullet's egg, scabrous, ash-colour and yellow mixed ; an exterior, 

 pulpy cortex covers ahard bony shell which immediately encloses the 

 seeds with their pulpy nidus, it is one-celled, five- or six-valved, and 

 the incurved edges of the valves form the paiietal receptacles for the 

 seeds, 



70. G. catnpanulata, R. 



Shrubby, armed. Leaves lanceolar, smooth. Flowers in termi- 



