Tetracera, POLYANDRIA TETRAGYNIA. 645 
» POLYANDRIA TETRAGYNIA. 
TETRACERA. Schreb. gen. n. 930. 
GEN. Cuar. Calyx from four to six-leaved. Corol 
from three to six-petalled. Filaments dilated at top. 
Anthers twin. Follicles from one to four. Seeds arilled, 
one or more in each follicle. 
1. T. sarmentosa. Willd. 2.1240. 
’ Shrubby, scandent. Leaves oval, ribbed, scabrous, ser- 
rate. Panicles terminal. Flowers monogynous. Follicles 
one-seeded. 
 Piripu. Rheed. Mal. Delima sarmentosa. Burm. Ind. 37. 
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A native of Pulo Penang, Ceylon, &c. Dr. William 
Hunter who found it on Pulo Penang, thinks this may 
be Marsden’s Pulass, see his History of Sumatra. p. 76. 
2. T. trigyna. R. 
Shrubby, scandent. Leaves broad-lanceolar, acute, ser- 
rulate. Ranicles jgrminal, scanty ; flowers trigynous. Co- 
. Follicles with several seeds in each. 
~ Mamplas of the Malays on. Pulo Penang, where it is 
indigenous in the forests, running up and down trees, 
&c. toa great extent. Flowering time uncertain. The 
seed ripens in July and August. Leaves alternate, short- 
petioled, short, broad-lanceolate, slightly serrate, having 
a few scattered hairs on both sides, from two to three in- 
ches long: Stipules none. Panicles terminal, small, a little 
hairy. Flowers pretty large. Bractes ovate-lancevlate, 
hairy, one or two at each of the divisions of the panicle. 
Calyx generally four-leaved ; leaflets unequal, round, con- 
cave, ciliate, permanent. Petals genera!ly four, much 
-Jonger than the calyx, deciduous. Filaments numerous, 
clavate. Anthers twin. Germ superior. — Style recur- 
