682 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Deeringia. 
tary with. only. five antheriferous divisions, Style three- 
cleft. Capsules bacciform, evalvular, many-seeded. 
A native of the Moluccas. It is an erect, smooth annual, 
with long, delicately thin leaves, 
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DEERINGIA. Brown. prodr. nov. holl. i. 413. 
Calyx five-leaved. Corol none. Filaments having their 
base united into a little cup. Germ one-celled, many-seed- 
ed; attachment inferior. . Berry one-celled, Seeds a few, 
attached by their proper cords to the bottom of the cell, _ 
1. D. celosioides, Brown. loc. cit. 
Perennial, scandent, Leaves alternate, cordate. Spikes 
terminal, panicled. Styles three. . Berries three-seeded. 
Celosia baccata. Koen. in Retz. Obs. 5, 23. « 
Blitum fructescens: Rumph. Amb, v. 235, t. 83 ile #- 
Beng. Gola Mohunee. 
Hind. Lutmun, 
Found near. Calcutta, flowering i in the rains. 
| Root nearly, spindle-formed, large, perennial, Stems and 
branches one, two, or more fathoms long; perennial, climb- 
ing, striated, otherwise smooth, Leaves alternate, petioled, 
cordate, acute, entire. Spikes panicled, terminal, and from 
the exterior axills long, ascending. Flowers numerous, dis~ 
tinct. Calyelethree-leaved, bractiform. Filaments five, 
from the nectary ; anthers two-lobed. Styles three. 
In January I found a very large plant of this climbing 
over a small tree, of about sixteen or eighteen feet high, with 
few. leaves, but innumerable, beautiful, pendulous racemes 
loaded with small, smooth, bright red berries, each:contained 
when perfect, three small, black, flattened, roundish, kidney- 
shaped seeds in one distinct cavity of the berry. — 
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