190 



flowered, sliorter than the' leaf : berry globose, size of a pea, smootn; 

 dark purple. 



Hills eastward of fielgaum, flowering in the hot season. 



(6) C. CONGESTA. (7S. fV.) 



Ident. Wight's Icon. vol. IV. t. 1289. 



Spec. Char. Fruticose, erect: branches dichotomous, thorny • 

 leaves broad-ovate or suborbiCUlar, obtuse, glabrous, very smooth.: 

 peduncles terminali aboiit 3-flowered, congested oil the points of the 

 branches, slightly pubescent : calycine lobes bvnte, acute, ciliated, 

 much shorter than the corolla : corolla hairy within : filaments and 

 capitate stigma hairy; ' 



Coorg. ' 



GENUS IV. OPHIOXYLON. 

 Pentandria IXEoiiOgynia. Sea: Systi 



Derii. From Ophis, a serpent, and Xylon, woo'd ; in alliisioii 

 to its supposed healing properties. 



Gen. Char. Calyx 5-parted, without glands : lobes linear, ob» 

 long, or lanceolate, erect : corolla salver-shaped, much longer' thaii 

 the calyx : tube cylindrical, narrower at ihe thrdatj hairy within : 

 lobes five, ovate, obtuse, twisted to the right : starnens 5, inserted 

 within-the throat, incluse : anthers oblong, acntfe, longer than the 

 filaments: nedtary cilp-shaped, entire, undulated dn the margin : 

 ovaries 2, compressed, coniiate at the base : ovules 2 in each, at; 

 tached above the babe : style 1 : stiglna ov-oirf, capitate, bitubercu- 

 late at the apex, and flnibriate round the base and crown : berries 

 connate at the base, lO void, 1-seeded, with a more or ieSS'rugbus 

 testa: embryo nearly as long as the seed: albumen fleshy: coty- 

 ledons oval, lanceolate, or sufeorbiciilar : radicle- pointing to the 

 apex. — Lactescent, erect, or twining shrubs : leaves opposite or ver- 

 ticelled, oblong, acute at both ends, paler beneathj glabrous or spar- 

 ingly pubescent : Cymes axillary, dichotdraous, shorter than thei 

 leaves, many-flowered: pedicels shorts flowers white, or with the 

 calyx, reddish at the base : berried black or red. 



(1) O. SERPENTINUM. f Willct.J 



Ident. Willd. Syst. 4. p. 979.— Dec. pro*< Vlil. p. 342.— 

 Roxb. flor. Ind. I. p. 694. — Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 143. 



Engrav. Bot. Mag. 70. t. 784.— Rheede Mai. VI. t. 47.— 

 Rumph. Amb. t. 16.— Wight's Icon. t. 849. 



Spec. Char. Very small shrub : leaves- opposite or vertioelled 

 in threes, oblong-aeute, undulated : cymes suliterminal frofti the 



