195 



anthers linear-lanceolate, cuspidate, many times longer than the 

 filament: ovaries 2 : ovules 4, namely two superposed in either ' 

 part of the ovary, inserted by the middle, erect, amphitropal : style 

 filiform; stigma conical, 1 0-furrowed at the base, 2-lobed at the^ 

 apex : drupe often single by abortion of the ovary, elliptic-globose : 

 seeds 2, namely one in each imperfect 'cell, or solitary, (one abor-f - 

 tive), free at the apex, ovate-acuminate: albumen,none : embryo 

 inverted: cotyledons ovate-oblong, fleshy: radicle . very short, 

 tough. 



(1-) C; Odallam, (GtBrtn.) 



Ident. Gasrtn. fr. II. p. 193.— Dec. prod. VIII. p. 353;— 

 Roxb. fl. Ind. II. p. 692. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 441. — Rheede Mai. I. t. 39.— Sim's 

 Bot. Mag. t. 1845. 



Spec. Char. Small tree : leaves approximate at the top of the, 

 branches, obversely lanceolate, acuminate, long-narrowed at the 

 base ; lateral nerves perpendicular tp the centre : calycine lobes^ 

 lanceolate, long-acuminate, at length revolute, nearly equalling the 

 tjibe of the corolla : flowers white, fragrant : drupe ovoid-globose. 



Sea shores of both Cpasts, flow,ering nearly all the year. 



GENUS VIII. TABERN^MONTANA. 



Pentandrla Klonogynia. Sex; Syst: 



Deriv. In honor of J, T. T^bernsemont^nns, a celebra<.ed Phy-, 

 s^pian and Botanist. 



Gen. Char. Trees or shrubs : leaves opposite, entire: cymes, 

 axillary, usually twin at the apex of the branchlets : calyx 5-part-.i 

 e4 : glands linear, 4-7-vprticelled : corolla cup-shaped : tube inflat- 

 ed, often narrower in the middle, without appendages : throat, 

 naked, lobes obtuse : stamens inserted on the inflated part of the 

 tube : filaments very short or. none. : anthers often sagittate, long 

 acuminate, rarely linear, generally included : ovaries twp, adpress- 

 ed : style single, sometimes double at the base near the ovaries ; . 

 stigma usually annular at the base, 2-lobed at the apex : fruits two 

 (solitary by abortion), linear-oblong, oblong or subglobose, more or 

 less fleshy, pulpy, divaricate : ovules numerous : seeds few ov- 

 many, nestling in cellulose pulp, obovoid : albumen fleshy : cotyle-^ 

 dons leafy, recurved at the apex : radicle superior, cylindric. 



(1) T. DICHOTOMA. (Boxb,) 



Ident. Roxb. fl. Ind. II. p. 21.— Dec. prod. VIII. p. 366. 

 Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 433. — Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 53. 

 . Sp^c. Char. Shr.ub. : leaves oblong, acute at the base, obtus4: 



