565 PENTANDniA monogynia. Pesoqueria, 



imbricated in the bad. — Filaments, scarcely any. Anthers filiform^ 

 without the tube. — Germ turbinate, two-ceded, with many ovula in 

 each, attached to two peltate receptacles arising from the centre of 

 the partition. Style rather longer than the tube of the corol, swelled 

 near the middle. Stigma large, roundish, clammy, apex two-lobed„ 

 Berry the size of a nutmeg, nearly round, somewhat rugose, pulpy,, 

 crowned with the entire calyx, two-celled. Seeds numerous, small? 

 oval, flattened. — Perisperm and embryo as in the other species. 



4. P- fongispina, R. 



Arboreous, armed, spines opposite, and alternate, horizontal. 

 Leaves obovate-cuneate, smooth. Flowers solitary, terminal, and 

 axillary. Calyx smooth, border permanent. Fruit obovate, smooth. 



A native of the coast of Coromandel. Flowering time the ho6 

 and rainy season. 



Trunk straight. Branches numerous^ the smaller long, slender, 

 spreading, and drooping, a habit which immediately distinguishes 

 this species from Koenig's dumetorum ; its branches being short and 

 rigidly erect. — Spines oppositeor alternate, decussate, horizontal,, 

 straight, strong and sharp; length from one to two inches. — Leaves 

 on the young shoots opposite, on the old ones in fascicles below the 

 spines, all are short-petioled, obovate-cuneate,, entire, smooth on both 

 sides ; size varying, from half an inch to three inches in length. — 

 Stipules (examine the very young shoots to find them) within the 

 leaves, subulate, pointed. — Flowers solitary, short-peduncled, gener- 

 ally from the extremities of the little, leaf-bearing branehlets below 

 the spines, rarely axillary, pretty large, pure white, and fragrant. — 

 Calyx perfectly smooth. Tube cyliridric s; border of five, ovate-cor- 

 date, permanent segments. In dumetorum the tube only is permanent. 

 —Corol salver-shaped. Tube as long as the tube of the calyx, villous 

 on the outside, within, a ring of projecting hairs shuts it up about 

 the middle. Border of five, obliquely ovate, spreading divisions. — 

 Filaments none. Anthers five, linear, affixed over the fissures of the 

 Wide*' of the corol, and entirely without its tube. — Style thickened 



