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622 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Celastrus, 
surrounded with a yellow pulpy nidus, and always separat- 
ing into three lobes, whatever the number be. 
4. C. multiflora. R. 
Shrubby, scandent, unarmed. Leaves alternate, oblong, 
acuminate, serrate. Panicles terminal. Stamens alternate, 
with an equal number of reniform nectarial glands. 
A native of Nepal, from thence Dr, Buchanan sent the 
seeds to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, in 1802. In July 
1808, the plants therefrom blossomed for the first time and 
a their sced seven months afterwards, 
~ Trunk short, about as thick as a man’s arm. Bark brown, 
soft and spongy. Branches numerous, spreading much, and 
having their extremities often twining, but the scandent habit 
prevails most. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, drooping, ob- 
long, acuminate, serrate, smooth on both sides; about six 
inches long, and from two to three broad. Stipules’minute, 
soon withering and drooping. Panicles terminal, ovate-ob- 
long, composed, of many, simple, diverging, short, smooth ra- 
cemes, Flowers numerous, small, pale greenish white, Brac- 
tes very small, caducous, Calyx obscurely five-toothed. Pe- 
tals oblong, inserted on the calyx, alternate with the stamens, — 
soon after expansion recurved, Fi/aments shorter than the 
petals, alternate, with as many semi-lunar nectarial glands. 
Germ superior, ovate, three-celled, with two ovula in each, at- 
tached to the bottom of the cells, Sty/e about as long as the 
nens. _ Stigma of three emarginate lobes. Coppers ctiandils . 
somewhat three-lobed, three-cel ed, three-valved, and gene- 
rally with a single seed in each cell, Seeds obovate, entirely 
covered by a thin, pulpy, scarlet aril. Snteguments (exclu- 
sive of the aril), single, tender, white and smooth. Perisperm 
of a soft cartilaginous texture. Embryo erect. Cotyledons 
two, round- cordate, and so large as to divide the perisperm. 
Raidicle bs alld pointing: obliquely to ond Aus-gasat ger 
