694 _ PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. = Ophioxylon. 
superior, slightly united, each one-seeded. Embryo inverse, 
and furnished with a perisperm. 
1, O, serpentinum, Willd, iv. 979, 
Tsiovanna-Amel-Podi. Rheed. Mal. vi. 81. t. 47. 
Radix Mustela. Rumph. Amb, vii. 29. t. 16. 
Sans. Chundrika, Churmuhuntree, Pushoomehunukarika, 
Nundunee, Karuvee, Bhudra, Vasoopooshpa, Vasura, Chun- 
drushoora. 
Beng. Chandra. 
Hind, Ch’hota-chand, 
Telinga. Patalganni. 
This, in a rich soil, is a large climbing or twining shrub ; 
in a poor soil, small and erect, It is a native of the Circar 
mountains. In my garden it flowers all the year round. — 
Stem woody, erect, climbing, or twining. Bark ash-co- _ 
loured. Leaves three or five-fold, short-petioled, oblong, 
pointed, waved, entire, smooth ; from four to five inches long, 
and about two broad. Stipules none. Fascicks axillary, pe- 
duncled, many-flowered. Peduncles long, smooth, round, 
sometimes nearly erect, sometimes drooping. Pedicels and 
calyces of a bright red colour, which with the white flowers, 
gives the haw a very pretty appearance, 
The Hermapnropite Fiowers, indeed I never could | 
_ discover any other, are well described in the Genera Planta- 
rum, except that the corol is always contracted. Germ sa- 
perior, two-lobed, with one ovulum in each, attached to the 
inner and lower corner of the cell, Berry t two-lobed, smooth, 
shining black, and succulent when ripe ; ‘lobes the size of a 
pea, aah: one-celJed. Seed solitary, somewhat ie nee 
Integuments two, the exterior one nuciform, most pointed at 
the base, hard, thick, and rugose, the inner one a fine mem- 
- brane, adhering to the perisperm. Perisperm conform to 
the seed, greenish white. Embryo inverse, straight, nearly 
as long S, mb ocak Nona cone round, cordate, i 
