Posoqueria, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 571 



smooth, nearly round, covered with grey bark. Branchlets slender, 

 four-sided, pubescent, armed with opposite, straight, half inch long, 

 supra-axillary spines, each having an annular joint, rarely two, above 

 the middle, the lower half pubesctnt, the upper smooth, shining, and 

 brown. Leaves in approximate pairs, sub-decussate, spreading, 

 ovate, cuspidaio-acute, entire, rounded at the base, two inches long, 

 smooth and shining above, with a few short hairs along the nerves 

 uuderneath. Petiol short, villous. Stipules lanceolate, cuspidato- 

 acuminate, villous, neaily as long as the petiols, deciduous.— Flozcers 

 ternate, axiilaiy or terminal on the young branchlets, fragrant, white. 

 Each fascicle supported on a short, villous pedicel, as are also the 

 single flowers. — Calyx gub-campanulate ; densely villous, five-toothed, 

 supported by two small, ovate bractes ; teeth linear-lanceolate, acu- 

 minate. — Corolla smooth on the outside. Tube slender, two inches 

 long, villous and silky within; lacinia: lanceolate, acute, most spread- 

 ing, nearly half as long as the tube, finely veined. Throat slightly 

 pubescent. Anthers sub-sessile, half exserted. — Ovary villous, 

 ovate, two. celled, many-seeded; ovula attached to a septal placenta. 

 — Stigma lifted above the throat of the corolla, thick and fleshy, 

 clavate. — berry purple, round, pubescent, about three lines in dia- 

 meter, two-celled, manv-seeded. 



Obs. This species conies exceedingly near to Roxburgh's P.fas- 

 ciculata, but differs in the villosity of its branchlets and berries. It 

 is not unlikely that it may be only a variety of that species. — JN. W. 



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