Paederia. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 683 
_ 2. D. (formerly Celosia. R.) tetragyna, R. 
Shrubby, scandent. Leaves ovate-cordate. Flowers axil- 
lary. Styles four-cleft, ish 
A native of the Moluccas, and from thence accidently in- 
troduced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, amongst spice 
and other plants ; flowering time in Bengal, the cold season. 
- Stem ligneous, scandent ; young shoots pendulous, striated, 
smooth, Leaves altennnte, petioled, ovate-cordate, acumi- 
nate, somewhat. undulate, smooth on both sides; about two | 
inches long, and one broad. Petioles channelled.» Flowers 
axillary, from solitary to the being collected on small short- 
peduncled heads; they are small and of a pale-greenish white 
colour, Calya (1 would in this species rather say bractes,) 
three-leaved.  Corol (rather calyx) five-leaved ; leaflets ob- _ 
tuse, and about as long as the stamens, NVectary with four 
or five, lengthened, antheriferous divisions. Germ four-lob- 
ed. Styles four, recurved, . Berry with from one to four 
lobes, smooth, when ripe red, succulent, size of a pea, con- 
taining from one to four reniform seeds, though one is: —_ far — 
the most common. — | 
PAEDERIA. Schreb. gen. N: 412. 
Calyx five-toothed. Corol tubular. . Germ: two-telled, 
one-seeded ; attuchment inferior. » Stigma two-cleft. Berry 
inferior, two-seeded, Embryo erect, and furnished with a 
-perisperm. 
é. 
1. P. fetida. Willd, spec, i, 1219. . ii a Sa 
| Shrubby, twining. Leaves — mae ain —Pasicles 
axillary and terminal. Stamina inclosed. Berries com- 
Somaraji. Asiatic Res, iv. 261. 
Beng. Gundha badhulee. 
Hind, Gundali,. 
e ee Rumph, inks v. 436, t. 160. “si 
