452 TETRANDRIA MONOGTNIA. - Pothos. 
tom of the cell, and immersed in a clear gelatinous liquid.—Style 
none. Stigma, en umblicated elevation on the apex of each germ. 
— Berries oblong, size of a French bean, red, pulpy, one-seeded.— 
Seed solitary, or two, conform to the berry. 
9. P. officinalis, R. 
Perennial, Parasitic, stems rooting. Leaves oblong, cordate, 
entire. Flowers terminal; florets naked, octandrous. Berries one- 
seeded. | 
Sans, nalane Guja-pippulee, al fefuupait, Kuri-pippulee,. 
eiuauwp Kupi-vullee, Ataa At Kolu-vullee, gaat Shreyusee, 
afr, Vushira. 
Beng. Guj-pippul. 
A native of Bengal, and common in some parts of the Midnapore 
district, where it is cultivated for its fruit, which, cut into transverse. 
pleces and dried, is an article of some importance in the Hindoo 
materia medica, called Guj-pippul, and sold by the druggists uu- 
der that name. Flowering tine the rainy season; seed ripe in Ja- 
nuary. 
Stem carenbigl, ereeping up to the top of large trees, n like 
the Joy, taking firm hold with its innumerable roots; about as 
thick as the little finger, smooth, except the cicatrices of the fallen: 
leaves, and the roots: from the side next the tree which supports it. 
— Leaves alternate, sub-bifarious, petioled, oblong-cordate, entire, - 
filiform, pointed, smooth on both sides ; from six to ten inches long; 
and from three to six broad.— Petioles arg channelled, smooth, 
shorter than the leaves.— Pedunceles terminal, solitary, round, smooth; - 
scarcely half the length of the petioles; when in flower erect, but 
often drooping, from. the increasing*weight of the fruit. Spathe sube 
cylindric, opening a little^on one side; when in flower, smootli on 
both sides; greenish without, and of a: pale yellow colour within, 
apex filiform, and a little twisted; length about six inches. — Spadix 
sub-cylindric, obtuse, equalling the spathe ; colour a pale greenish 
yellow, dotted with the dark-coloured stigmas of the numerous fruc- 
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