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tube. Drupe globose, the size of a small pea, crowned by the per- 
sistent leafy lobes, which become i in. long. 
Mauritius, in dense woods of Curepipe, Grand Bassin, etc. Endemic. Bois 
Cassant a petites feuilles. 
* Serissa fcetida , Comm.; DC. Prod. iv. 575, widely-cultivated in 
gardens, probably a native of Tropical Asia, is established in Mauritius 
in plains at Moka. It is an erect shrub, with very abundant slender 
glabrous or downy branches, small nearly sessile oblong acute coria- 
ceous small leaves often fascicled at the end of short branchlets, 
prominently bristly persistent stipules, sessile usually solitary flowers, 
a funnel-shaped calyx with 1-6 lanceolate teeth, a funnel-shaped whitish 
corolla \ in. long with 4-6 oblong cuspidate lobes, included stamens 
inserted low down in the tube, and a 2-celled ovary with solitary basal 
ovules. Niclande. 
24. PiEDERIA, Linn. 
Calyx minute, with a campanulate tube and 5 deltoid teeth. Corolla 
funnel-shaped, dilated from the base, hairy within, glandular on the 
outside, with 5 obtuse spreading minute crisped lobes. Stamens 5 ; 
anthers nearly sessile at the hairy throat of the corolla. Ovary free at 
the top, 2-celled ; ovules solitary in the cells ; style with two deep 
filiform forks. Fruit small, globose, with a dry fragile epicarp, a pulpy 
yellow mesocarp and a pair of bony 1-seeded pyrenes. — Climbing shrubs, 
with copious small flowers in axillary cymes or panicles. Distrib. 
Hound the world in the tropics. Species 5-6. 
1. P. fcetida, L. var. sessiliftora ( Poir . ; DC. Prod. iv. 474, as a 
species) . A copiously-branched shrubby climber, with slender glabrous 
branches. Leaves distinctly petioled, fetid when bruised, varying 
from lanceolate to cordate-ovate, membranous, glabrous, acute, 2-4 in. 
long ; stipules minute, deltoid. Flowers in axillary cymes or panicles 
with cymose branches, distant, secund in our plant, sessile on the 
scorpioid forks. Calyx under in. long. Corolla f-| in. long, 
white-mealy externally, the purple throat closed with long white 
glandular hairs, the crisped lobes yellowish. Berry brown, the size of 
a small pea. 
Mauritius, in forests through the island, used for lotions for horses. Common 
through Tropical Asia, not African. Liane K.K. 
25. SPERMACOCE, Linn. 
Calyx small, with a campanulate tube and 2-4 rarely 5 unequal 
persistent teeth. Corolla small, funnel-shaped ; lobes 4, spreading, 
valvate. Stamens 4 ; anthers nearly sessile at the throat of the corolla. 
Ovary 2-celled ; ovules solitary in the cells ; style forked or simple. 
Fruit a septicidal capsule, the dissepiment entire, or dividing into two. 
