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nate; segments falcate, cuspidate. Flowers lateral, or axillary, long- 
peduncled. j 
` Guj-pippul is; the vernacular name of this very large: powerful 
species, in the Silhet district, where it is indigenous, and blossoms 
during the hot season. t 
i Stems as thick asa stout cane, rooting on, and ascending trees 
. like the common Ivy; round, smooth, and rather contracted between 
the leaves.— Leaves approximate, alternate, petioled, pinnatifid, or 
completely pinnate; from two to six, or seven feet long, including the 
‘petioles; segments, or leaflets, linear-falcate, cus pidate, entire, smooth, 
sometimes from three to four-nerved or triple-nerved ; length from 
six to eighteen inches, and two broad. — Petioles from six inches, to. 
three feet long, round, smooth, stem-clasping, and the lower portion 
more deeply channelled.— Peduncles solitary, axillary or lateral, 
about six inches long, substantially thick, round, smooth, and replete 
with the same while bristly spicula that are found in the germ and 
seed vessels.—Spathe sub-cylindric, length of thé peduncle —Spa. ' 
diz cylindric, léngth of the spathe, completely covered with the in- 
numerable fructifications.—Calyr none. Corol none, nor any thing 
like either.—F ilaments about four to each germ, and nearly of their 
length. Anthers cordate, appearing beyond the germ.—Germs nu- 
merous, the most general form a four-sided wedge, apex truncate. 
Style, scarcely ma m an OOT oblong opening. 
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^ Caulescent, creeping, armed. Leaves from cordate-sagittate to- 
pinnatifid. — Spathe erect, spiral, niany times longer than ap dun 
cylindric spadix. - Florets tetrapetalous, tetrandrous. didinr 
Can it be Dracontium spinosum, Flor. Zeyl. 323? 
A native of Bengal, delighting in a rich, moist soil; it flowers, 
though rarely, during the cool season. 
J Root fibrous.—Stems and branches creeping, armed with short, 
- sharp prickles.— Leaves until the plants are old, and begin to flower, 
q simple-sagitate, and cordate-sagittate, afterwards pinnatifid, with 
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