654 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Leea, 
long, and nearly as broad. Petioles tapering from the base, 
furrowed below, channelled above, as far as the stipule-like 
membrane reaches. Cymes terminal, large; first division 
three-parted, or three distinct cymes, superior divisions less 
regular, Flowers very numerous, small, white, Bractes small, 
falling, Calyx five-toothed, permanent. Corod one-petalled. 
Tube length of the calyx. Border five-parted ; divisions lan- 
ceolate, expanding with an incurved apex, and there bagged, 
Nectary ; in this species the apices of the divisions are entire. 
Filaments five, length of the nectary, and inserted on the 
bottom of its five fissures, Anthers inverted within the mouth 
of the nectary, with their sides united. Germ superior, six~ 
celled, with one ovulum in each, attached to the base of the 
axis. Style cylindric. Stigma simple, perforated, lodged 
about the middle of the inverted anthers. Berry much de- 
pressed, torose, size of a small cherry, obscurely six or more~ 
lobed, smooth, black, and succulent when ripe, six or more- 
celled. Seeds solitary. Intequments two; the exterior one 
somewhat nuciform, pretty thick, and brown; the inner one 
very thin, and lighter coloured, adhering to the perisperm. 
Perisperm conform to the seed, deeply intersected with brown, 
clammy fissures, Embryo small, scarcely half the length of 
the perisperm, subulate. Cotyledons subulate. Radicle in- 
ferior, pointing to the umbilicus. 7 
Obs. The root promises to yield a colour fit for dyeing 5: ; ; its 
sates is a and it is mucilaginous, ; = 
S. L. crispa, Willd. spec. i. 1177. 
‘Herbaceous, stem and branches fringed at the angles. 
Leaves pinnate ; leaflets oblong, serrate. Antlers so age 
Nalugu. Rheed. Mal, ii. 43. t. 26.00 
Beng. Bun-chelta. | : 
3 Grows wild among bushes near Calcutta. Flowering time 
1€ rain} season ; and though the flowers are not conspicuous: 
