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The following is the description in the Flora Indica^ 

 1. 450. of the Indian plant : 



" Stems as thick as a slender ratan, often ramous, rooting 

 upon trees in the most shady forests, round, smooth, and 

 less succulent than any other species which I have yet 

 met with, except P. gracilis. Leaves alternate, petioled, 

 lanceolate, entire, smooth ; length from two to four inches, 

 breadth about an inch. Petioles most amply winged, so as 

 to be nearly as broad as the leaves themselves, almost as 

 long, equally entire, smooth, and marked with similar 



Peduncles axillary, solitary, clothed with many 

 small, ovate, bractiform scales, up to the spathe, where 

 they are completely recurved. Spathe boat-shaped, erect. 

 Spadijc globular, reflex. Calyx or coral some roundish 

 scales mixed amongst the germs, and of nearly the same 

 length, the exact number to each germ not ascertained. 

 Stamina about four obovate scales to each germ, with two 

 polliniferous pits on the inside, under the retuse apex. 

 Germs many, oblong, 1 -celled, with one, two, or three 

 ovula attached to the bottom of the cell, and immersed in 

 a clear gelatinous liquid. Style none. Stigma an umbili- 

 cated elevation on the apex of each germ. Berries oblong, 

 size of a French bean, red, pulpy, 1-seeded. Seed solitary, 

 or two conform to the berry." 



^ J. L. 



