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branches near the base, at first terminal, afterwards lateral 

 and oppositifolious by the shooting up of the stem from the 

 base of the peduncle. Flowers pedicellate, generally in pairs. 

 Bracts ovate, acute. Calyx inferior, five leaved, spread- 

 ing, leaflets ovate, obtuse, ciliate, the two inner ones rather 

 smaller. Corolla white, sometimes tinged with purple, 

 5-petaled, petals twice as long as the calyx, reflexed, ovate- 

 oblong, obtuse. Stamina five, inserted below the ovarium : 

 alternating with these are sometimes found five short abor- 

 tive filaments. Filaments very short. Anthers longer, erect, 

 conniving round the style, oblong, prolonged into acumina 

 which are sometimes a little contorted, and which open at 

 their summits by a pore, the cells are adnate below to the 

 sides of the filament.. Ovary oblong, acute. Style filiform, 

 erect, equal to the stamina. Stigma simple. Berry snow 

 white, globular, obscurely angled, crowned with the per- 

 sistent style which is obliquely deflexed ; of a spongy or fari- 

 nose substance, containing in the centre five seeds which 

 are disposed round the axis, and enclosed in arilli composed 

 of tough longitudinal fibres. Seeds (pyrenae ?) oblong, 

 somewhat reniform, hard. Albumen conform to the seed. 

 Embryo inverse, cylindrical, nearly as long as the seed. 

 Cotyledons semicylindric, obtuse. Radicle superior, longer 

 than the cotyledons. 



The branches are terminated by long corniculate buds 

 in which the gemmation is involute. 



EUTHEMIS MINOR. (W. J,) 



Foliis angusto-lanceolatis leviter serrulatis, racemis sim- 

 plicibus, baccis rubris angulatis acuminatis. 



Found at Singapore along with the preceding. 



This is a smaller shrub than the former, branched, 

 and smooth. Leaves alternate, petiolate, linear-lanceolate, 

 rather obtuse with a mucro. attenuated to the petiole, 

 slightly serrulate, very smooth, shining, finely striated 



