5G3 plntamhiia MONOGYN14. Posoqueria. 



poor barren soil, it: is then well arinjed vviili strong thorns. The 

 flowers like those of all the rest, are delighifuiy flagrant. 



6. I* .fasciculate, R. 



Shrubby, spines axillary, patent. Leaves ovate-oblong, sub-sessile. 

 Fascicles axillary, ami m the forks of the branches. Berries two- 

 celled. 



A mi del ling' sized, very rarnous, well armed shrub, a native o^ 

 Sillier, where it blossoms in March and April. 



Branchlets smooth, opposite and dichotomous. — Spines axillary, 

 patent, straight, rather short. — Leaves opposite, short-petioled, ovate- 

 oblong, entire, pretty smooth, from one to three inches long. — 

 Stipules iutetfjiiaceous, acuminate. — Flowers collected into small, 

 sub-sessile fascicles, in the folks of the dichotomous branchlets, or 

 axillary, middling-sized, and like those of most of the other species, 

 fragrant; when they first expand they are white, but gradually change 

 to pale yellow by the second day.— Calyx hairy, margin divided into 

 five, subulate segments. — Corol infundibuliform, border of five, ob- 

 long segments. — filaments scarcely any. Anthers five, linear, one- 

 third of their length within the tube of the corol. — Germ inferior* 

 two-celled, each containing many ovula attached to a receptacle 

 rising from the centre of the partition. Style the length of the corol. 

 Stigma clavate, unequally two-lobed a 



7- P. hngiflora, R. 



Arboreous, armed with opposite, recurved spines. Leaves lan- 

 ceolar-obloug, smooth. Corymbs terminal and axillary, few-dowered. 



Compare wilh Gardenia maltijlora, Wilid. i. p. 1231. 



A native of Cnittagong, wheie it grows to be a pretty large tree. 

 It dowers during the hot season, and the seeds ripen in July and 

 August. 



Branches and branchlets opposite, round, and smooth. — Spines 

 axillary, very strongs sharp, and- considerably recurved. — Leaves op- 

 posite, short-petioled, from bfuaek-Ian.ee/olar. to obi wig, entire. 



