380. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Limonia. 
tegument single, membranaceous. Perisperm none. Em- 
bryo inverse. Cotyledons conform to the seed. Radicle 
superior, 
_ 4.1L, scandens. R 
Shrubby, scandent, armed. Leaves ternate ; leaflets lan- 
ceolar, entire, smooth. Berries three-seeded, 
Sans. Luvunga-luta. 
‘Lung-phool of the natives about Silhet. | 
A very extensive, powerful, scandent shrub, a native 
of the hills about Silhet and Chittagong, where it blos- 
soms in March and April, and the seeds nipen! in Sep- 
tember. 
Trunk or branches several from the same root, late, 
thick, stout, ligneous, scandent, armed. Bark pretty 
smooth and ash-coloured. Thorns axillary,solitary, strong, 
long, acute, and a little recurved. Leaves alternate,ternate- 
Leaflets lanceolate, entire, smooth, shining and firm, from 
six to seven inches long, haying both surfaces marked with 
minute, dark green, glandular dots, or cells, though the 
smell, as in most leaves of this conformation, has nothing 
particular init; when the plants are young, the leaves ate 
simple. Petioles channelled, smooth, deep green like the 
leaves. Peduncles axillary, or from the naked branchlets 
below the leaves, each supporting from four to twelve, 
pedicelled, pretty large, white, fragrant flowers, in form! of 
a raceme, Calyx one-leaved, cylindric, with the mouth cat 
into four short, truncate divisions. Petals four, linear ob- 
long, fleshy, recurved. Filaments eight; the lower half unit- 
ed into a firm, fleshy tube. Anthers linear, incumbent 
Germ conical, elevated on a fleshy receptacle, three-cell- 
ed with two vertical ovula in each, attached to the axis- 
Style cylindric, Stigma entire, roundish, Berry ob- 
long, somewhat three-lobed, size of a pigeon’s egg, prety ) 
smooth, pulp of aresinous nature, and odoriierous, three 
celled. Seed solitary, mab somewhat pointes at. the a Ee: 
