164 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Loeflingia. 
Trunk leaning, often as thick asa man’s thigh. Branches 
numerous, climbing. TJ’horns one here and there over the 
old woody parts only, very large and strong, shaped like the * 
horn of a Rhinoceros. Leaves alternate, bifarious, petioled, 
oval, entire, smooth, about two inches long, and one broad. 
Racemes axillary, solitary, half the length of the leaves, few- 
flowered. Flowers small, white. Calyx cup-form, entire, 
permanent, and, enlarging with the fruit. Petals three; one, 
two, or all three half two-cleft; divisions linear, spreading, 
Neetary, a bifid, filiform, yellow body, rising from the in- 
side of the base of each division of the petals. Filaments 
three, short, standing between the nectaries, iserted into the 
petals below their fissures. Anthers oblong. Germ superior, 
ovate, one-celled, containing one ovulum attached to the. bot- 
tom of the cell, Style length of the corol. Stigma, simple. . 
Drupe or berry globular, three-fourths covered. with the en- 
larged calyx, yellow, pulpy, one-celled, Birds are fond. of 
them. Seed single, globular. Integuments two; ‘exterior nu. 
ciform; inner one white and spongy. Perisperm conform to 
the seed, amygdaline. Embryo inverse, minute, lodged i in 
the apex of the perisperm. Cotyledons two, equal, minute, 
semilinear. Radicle larger. than the cotyledons, oval, supe- 
Rs 0. ehchiate R. ane ue 
Shrubby, scandent. Leanes bifarious, from. ovate-lanceo- 
late to oblong, entire, glossy. Racemes axillary > before the 
flower expands bifariously imbricated, Ce the spiculee i in 
Briza.) Drupes ovate. 
A very large climbing soni or die, 30 any sesiaat plant 
can be so called ; a native of Cues: where it flowers i in 
the hot season, . 
. " wa LOEFLINGLIA. Schreb. gen. N. 71. 
