570 PENTA.NDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



'osoqueria*, 



Trunk in ten years old plants, in the botanic garden at Calcutta 

 as thick as a man's leg, but short, soon dividing into numerous 

 branches, and straight, stiff branchlets, in every direction. Bark ash- 

 coloured, on the oldest parts considerably cracked. — Spines axillary, 

 and rarely more than one to each pair of leaves ; about an inch long, 

 stiff, straight' rigid and sharp. — Leaves on the render shoots oppo- 

 site, on the old flower-bearing twig fascicled, round the flower sub- 

 sessile; the general form obovate, tapering a good deal to the base; 

 obtuse, smooth, from one to two inches long, by one broad. — Stipules 

 as in the order. — Flowers short-peduncied, generally from four to six 

 produced from each of the small lateral, short, scaly spurs, (as they 

 are called by gardeners,) of a middling size, and fragrant, when they 

 first expand pure white, but soon becoming yellow. — Calyx smooth; 

 tube cylindric; segments of the border generally five, sub-'anceolate, 



acuminate, permanent Corol, out side sericeous. Tube rather 



shorter than the calyx, shut about the middle with a valve of fine 

 white hairs pointing up. Border of five, obovate segments. — Filaments 

 scarcely any. Anthers linear, spreading. — Germ turbinate, two-celled, 

 ovula numerous, attached to a far-projecting receptacle from the cen- 

 tre of each side of the partition. Style rather longer than the tube 

 of the corol, swelled towaid the middle. Stigma oblong, two-lobed. 

 Berries broad, ovate-cordate, polished, size of a prune, crowned with 

 the remaining tube of the calyx; two-celled. — Seeds numerous, &c» 

 &c. as in the other species. 



9. P. rigida, Wall. 



Shrubby, with supra-axillary, straight, jointed spines. Branches 

 and calyces villpus. Leaves ovate, short-petioled, smooth. 'Flowers 

 lernate, axillary and terminal. Tube long and slender. Berries 

 pubescent. 



1 have found this in various forests both in the valley of Nipal and 

 on the surrounding mountains. I have also had it from Noakotc 

 It blossoms in April; the fruit ripens i>ri June. 



A strong, rigid, branchy shr.uk, about six feet high. Branches 



