662 PENTANPRIA MONOGYNIA, Musa. 
the size, shape, and appearance of a black currant, rarely 
more than two-seeded, Perisperm conform to the seed. 
Embryo erect, in the lower half of the perisperm. Cotyle- 
dons nearly round. Radicle inferior, 
4. V. parvifolia, R. 
Leaves angle-cordate, three-lobed, crenate-serrate, smooth, 
Stipules oval. Thyrses leat-opposed, few-flowered. 
A slender, perennial vine, of exactly the habit of the com- 
mon grape vine; a native of the eastern part of — 
Flowers in February. 
Stems and old branches ligneous, considerably flattened, 
ten or twelve feet high. Bark dark brown, with the exterior 
Jamina thin, and frequently peeling off; soung shoots some- 
what angular, and pretty smooth, Leaves simple, cordate, 
sometimes three lobed, crenate-serrate, apex somewhat at- 
tenuate, smooth on both sides, about two inches long. Ten- 
drils bifid. Stipules oval, caducous. Thyrses opposite to 
the leaves, diverging, very small, and only a little longer 
than the petioles. Flowers very minute, green. Calya ob- 
scurely five-lobed, Petioles five, cohering, and falling off i in 
one body, Nectary five-rounded scales, exiles the base 
of the germ, alternate! with the filaments. Filaments five, 
length of the germ, at first erect, but by age becoming re- 
curved. Anthers ovate. Germ round, four-celled, with 
one ovulum in each, attached to the base of the axis,” ‘Style 
scarcely — Sess sranehed cece = eee 
MUSA. Schreb. gen. N. 1563. 
giallisiaten Calyx, Spaties partial, one or many flower- 
ed. Corol of two unequal petals. Flowers all hermaphrodite. | 
Male-hermaphrodite toward the apex of the spadix. Germ- 
rior, abortive. Female-bermaphrodite toward the base 
of thé spadix, Germ inferior, three celled ; cells many-seed-» 
ed; attachment central. ‘erry oblong, thc clled,many- | 
