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the tapering: base of the leaves ; the sharp point of the acunii- 
nate leaves is alsoa good mark ; for though im P. scandens 
the same mark exists, even in a greater degree, yet this isa 
small tree ; that = scandent shrub. 
9. P. esculenta, R: 
Shrubby.: Leaves short-petioled, oblong, sting serrate, 
acuminate, smooth. Corymbs terminal, dense. 
A native of Chittagong, where the natives use the leaves 
in their diet, as well asin medicine. In the Botanic garden 
it continues in flower and fruit nearly the whole year, 
short-petioled, oblong, broadest a little above the middle, 
grossly and acutely serrate, acuminate, from four to ten 
inches long, by from two to five broad. Stipules none, 
Corymbs terminal, short-peduncled, broad, and much crowd- 
‘ed, with some pale of opposite, nvultifid, smooth branches, 
Flowers wamerous, small, of a greenish yellow. Bractes mi- 
nute, cant iaetay. five-toothed. Corol with a short cam- 
panulate tube. Border four-parted ; upper lobe broad, ob- 
tasely three-toothed, and vaulted over the hairy mouth of the 
and may be called the lower lip ; the base of the middle one’ 
thereof is yellow, Anthers twin. Germ four-celled, with one 
ovulam. in ‘each; attached to the upper part of the partitions. 
Style; length of the stamina.» Stigma two-toothed. Drupe 
minute, round, smooth, purple: Nut turbinate, rugose, four- 
celled, witha perforation up the centre, Seeds solitary, obo- 
vate. Perispermnone. Embryo erect, esse . 
conform to the seed. — inferior. 
10. z.. integrifolia. Willd. iii, 314, 7 
Aeione — —_ bere smooth, Congnts 
