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pointed, smooth, shining, from four to six inches long, and one or 
two inches broad.— Petioles round, smooth, from one to two inches 
long.—Cymes short-peduncled, axillary.— Bractes small, falling — 
Flowers small, green—Calyx small.—Corol four or five-petalled, 
generally four.  Nectary scarcely any.—Stamens none, or at most 
a small seemingly sterile one.—Germ superior, globose. — Style 
none. Stigma four, or five-lobed, according to the petals in the corol. 
—I have not seen the ripe fruit. | 
il. C. elongata, R. 
"Tender shoots succulent, polished. án digitite; leafs = 
tiolate, oblong, acute, remotely serrate, smooth. 
“Beng. Dhemna, which is also the name of a long serpent... 
Found amongst the mountains of the Coast of Coromandel, as 
well as in the forests of Bengal. Flowering time the hot season. 
Stem very long, running up and over the highest trees, a little 
compressed, aud until many years old smooth, polished, succulent, 
deep green. Branches few or none, until the plant arrives at a great 
height, and is several years of age.— Leaves alternate, petioled, digi- 
tate. Leaflets five, petioled, oblong, the lower pair obliquely so, 
serrate, smooth on both sides, from two to six inches long, and from 
- ene to three broad.— Petioles round, smooth, from four to five inches 
long.  Petiolets channelled.—Stipule cordate, small, sub-adjoined. 
— Tendrils leaf-opposed, simple.— Cymes trichotomous, and dichoto- 
mous ; thé last divisions short, and ending in small umbellets. + Brac- . 
les cordate, permanent.—Calyx four-toothed.— Corol, petals four, 
inserted in a belt which surrounds the body of the germ. — Nectary 
_a four-lobed, coloured elevation between the stamina and the inser- 
tion of the style.—JZi/aments four, inserted opposite to, and just 
within the petals. — Anthers incumbent. —Germ oval. Style short. 
Stigma simple.— Berry the size of a cherry, round-turbinate, smooth, 
when ripe black.— Seed single, large, somewhat rugose. — — 
