80 PLANTS OF PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND. 



by the anthers. Drupe large (size of a goose egg) oval, 

 slightly furrowed on one side; covered with a smooth, red 

 pellicle ; pulp hardly perceptible. Nut fibrous, woody, very 

 porous, one celled ; kernel single. 



I have only seen it in gardens, or about houses. In flow T er 

 all the year. 



Webera. 



Webera adunca, H. (Canthium parvifolium Roxb.). 



Spines axillary recurved ; leaves ovate ; peduncles axillary, 

 one to four, one flowered. 



Shrub: middle sized, branchy. Branches four cornered, 

 furrowed, opposite, brachiate. Leaves opposite ovate, most 

 entire, smooth, small, petioles short, below 7 convex, above 

 furrowed. Stipules two lateral, triangular, very small, with- 

 ering. Spines axillary, solitary ; short, recurved. Peduncles 

 axillary, one to four, thread form, very short, one flowered. 

 Bract oval, concave, two lipped, at the apex of the peduncle, 

 embracing the base of the calyx. Flow T ers small, greenish 

 yellow, nodding. Calyx perianth one leafed, bell shaped, 

 obscurely five toothed, persistent. Corolla one petaled, funnel 

 shape tube bellied ; limb five cleft, segments lanceolate, 

 spreading. Nect. Lacinise numerous, linear, inserted into 

 the throat of the corolla, hanging dowm within the tube. 

 Stam : filaments five, thread form, very short, erect, arising 

 from the throat of the corolla; anthers ovate, incumbent. 

 Pist : Germ ovate, below; above truncate; Style awl form, 

 villous round the base : Stigma cylindrical, five furrowed, 

 emarginate. Berry roundish, depressed, two celled; crowned 

 with the Calyx. Seeds : solitary, oblong. Grows in hedges, 

 flowers in April. 



HUNTERIA, Roxb. 



" Gen : Char. Contorted ; Calyx five parted ; Corol one 

 petaled, infundibuliform ; Berries tw T o." 



Hunteria corymbosa, Roxb. " Leaves opposite, elliptic, 

 j)olished; Corymbs terminal Berries short, pedicel'd, tw T o- 

 seeded." 



Jour. Straits Branch 



