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Deli ma sarmentosa. Climbing Delima. 



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Class and Order. 



POLYANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



( Nat. Ord.— DilleniacejE. ) 

 Generic Character. 



Stam. plurima. Carpellum 1, capsulare, 1 — 2-spermum. 

 PI ores inter dum abortu dioici. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Delima * sarmentosa; foliis ellipticis serratis integerri- 

 misque scabris rigidis, floribus paniculatis hermaphro- 

 ditis (?), germinibus capsulisque glabris. 



Delima sarmentosa. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 736. Burm. Ind. p. 

 122. t. 37./. 1. Be Cand. Prodr. v. I. p. 69. Spreng. 

 Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 597. 



Tetracera sarmentosa. Vahl, Symb. v. 3. p. 70. Willd. 

 Sp. PL v. 2. p. 1240. 



Actjsa aspera. Lam. Fl. Cochin, v. I. p. 405 ? 



Trachytella aspera. De Cand. Syst. 1. p. 410, Prodr. 

 \.p.70. 



Descr. A slender, climbing, branching shrub, rough, 

 as is every part of the plant, with short, rigid, closely-ap- 

 pressed hairs. Leaves alternate, from one to three or four 

 inches long, generally almost exactly elliptical, sometimes 

 obovate, rarely ovate, rigid, entire, or more or less ob- 

 scurely toothed at the margin, particularly in the upper 

 half, dark green above, paler beneath, marked with rather 

 close and parallel transversely oblique nerves, which are 

 prominent beneath. Panicles terminating the branches, 

 having a small leaf at the primary divisions, and generally 

 a linear bractea at the origin of the lesser ones, and of 

 Ihe pedicels. Flowers numerous, in a panicle. Calyx of 

 hye leaves, green, the two outer leaves or sepals smaller 

 than the three inner ones, grlabrous, the margins ciliated. 



6 Petals 



From delimo, to smooth or polish, from the use made of the rough leaves. 



