Tas. 4522. 
LUVUNGA  SCANDENS. 
Scandent Luvunga. 
Nat. Ord. AURANTIACE®.—MoNADELPHIA OCTANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Luvunga, Hamilton.—Calyx monophyllus, brevi-cylindraceus, 
truncatus, obscure 4-lobus. Petala 4, oblonga, carnosa, demum patenti-recurva. 
Filamenta 8, in tubum cylindraceum elongatum 3 unitum. Anthere lineares, 
incumbentes. Germen ovato-conicum, in receptaculum carnosum situm, 3-locu- 
lare ; ovulis 2 in quoque loculo erectis axi insertis. Stylus cylindraceus. Stigma 
integrum, subglobosum. Bacca oblonga, subtriloba, 3-locularis, pulposa ; pulpa 
resinosa odorifera. Semen solitarium, ovale, subacutum, integumento simplici 
viridescenti-venoso indutum. Perispermum 0. Embryo semini conformis, in- 
versus. Cotyledones oblonge, virides, carnosee. Plumula biloba : radicula ovata, 
supera. Loxd. 
LuvunGa scandens; armata elata subscandens, foliis trifoliolatis foliolis lanceo- 
lato-acuminatis, floribus axillaribus fasciculatis, 
Luvunea scandens. Ham. in Wight, Ili. Ind. Bot. v.1. p.188. Walp. Repert. 
Bot. v. 1. p. 382. 
Lrvonta scandens. Roxb. Fl. Ind. v. 2. p. 380. 
A delicately fragrant plant of the Orange family, native of 
Silhet and Chittagong, first described by Dr. Roxburgh as a 
Limonia, though that accurate botanist speaks with doubt of its 
belonging truly to that genus. Dr. Hamilton seems somewhere 
to have called it Zwvunga (from its Sanscrit name, “ Luvunga- 
luta’’); and Dr. Wight has adopted that appellation, giving, as 
we have done, Roxburgh’s excellent account of its fructification 
for the generic character. In cultivation, though attaming @ 
height of nearly twenty feet, it hardly deserves to be called 
scandent. Spring is its time of flowering. We owe the posses- 
sion of it in our stoves to Dr. Wallich. 
Duscr. A tall, lax-growing, but scarcely scandent shrub, with “a 
straggling branches, which are glabrous (as is every part of the 
plant), terete, bearing a rather long subulate decurved spine im 
the axil of the leaf. Leaves alternate, remote, 3-foliolate. 
Petiole two to three inches long. Leaflets five to six inches 
long, lanceolate, acuminate, entire, penninerved, pellucido-pune- 
JULY Ist, 1850. 
