Posoqueriu. pENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 6QU 



smooth, from four to six inches long, by one and a half or two broad. 

 —Stipules as in the Order.— Corymbs terminal, and axillary, short, 

 generally about eleven- to thirteen-tiowered, every part smooth. — 

 Flowers large, pale, or nearly white when they first expand, becom- 

 ing yellovv by the Second day, fragrant — Calyx tubular, mouth cut 

 into five, semilunar segments.— Coro/, tube long and slender; border 

 of five, unequally lanceolate, spreading segments. — Filaments none. 

 Anthers five, linear, attached to the mouth of the tube of the corol. 

 — Germ inferior, two-celled, with many ovulain each, attached to their 

 elevated fleshy receptacle, rising from the centre of the partitioh. — 

 Berries the size of common cherries, when ripe yellow, smooth, 

 fleshy, two-celled. — Seeds numerous, &c. &c. as in the genus. 



Obs. by N. W. 



I have found this or one very much like it at Singapore, in abun- 

 dance, in flower and fruit in the months of September and October. 

 I have likewise had specimens of it from Sflhet, where it blossoms 

 in March, under the name of Gooja-kanta. Those from the former 

 place differing only in the leaves being somewhat smaller, and the 

 segments of the calyx more acute, from Roxburgh's ptant, which 

 I doubt not is Lamarck's Randia longiflora, Encycl. bot. iii. 26, 

 Ejusd. illustr. t. 156. f. 3. There is a new species of Canthium ia 

 the Company's botanic garden, which has been introduced from 

 Silhet under the same native name, and which in general habit and 

 thorns resembles our shrub. — I propose calling it C. recurvum.— 

 N. W. 



8. P. Jloribunda, R. 



Sub-arboreous, armed. Leaves opposite and fascicled, obovate, 

 cuneate. Flowers in lateral fascicles ; calyx longer than the tube of 

 the corol^its segments lanceolate. Berries ovate-cordate, polished. 



A large, rigid, ramous shrub, or, in a good soil, small tree, like du- 

 metorum a native of the coast of Coromandel. Flowering time 

 April and May, and the seeds ripen immediately after the rains, 



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