Modecca. MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA, 133 
of many fathoms; ramous, and climbing up and over trees of 
a large size. 
Tn the Botanic garden it grows slowly, though healthy ; 
flowers during the rains, and the fruit ripens in October, 
Bark on the old ligneous parts ash-coloured ; on the young 
shoots smooth, polished, greeu. Leaves remote, alternate, pe- 
tioled, smooth on both sides, three-lobed, with the lobes en- 
tire, tapering and acute. Glands a large yellow one under 
each sinus and two at the base. Petioles nearly as long as 
the leaves, columnar, smooth, base permanent, though not 
enlarged, as in M. twberosa, and becoming a recurved, blunt, 
short thorn. Tendrils, axillary floriferous ; when not flori- 
ferous, simple. lowers numerous, male and female, mix- 
ed on the same tendril, middling-sized, forming a little di- 
chotomous corymb toward the apex of the tendrils. Calyx 
tubular, somewhat gibbous towards the base; colour pale 
yellow ; mouth five-parted. Petals five, linear-lanceolate, ci- 
_ liate, inserted on the tube of the calyx, near the base, Nee- 
tarial scales, on the male none, on the female ten ; five are 
alternate with the petals, entire, and truncated, and five un- 
der the petals smaller and ciliate. Fi/aments in the male, five 
united into a tube. Anthers linear, erect. Germ in the male 
a small three-cleft gland, in the female short-pedicelled, ob- — 
long, one-celled ; ovula many, attached to three ventrical pa- 
rietal retispticlen. Style none. Stigma three-lobed. Capsule 
pedicelled, berried, oblong, of the size of a pullet’s egg, fleshy, 
smooth, polished, of a scarlet colour, three-valved, opening 
from the apex. Seeds many, attached by very thick, soft, 
fleshy cords, to a thickened ridge, down the middle of each 
valve, obcordate, inversed ina completely soft lucid aril, In- 
teguments two; the exterior one nuciform, dark-coloured, 
scrobiculate ; the interior one membranaceous. Perisperm 
conform to the seed, somewhat glaucous. Hmbryo nearly as 
large as the perisperm, with round, three-nerved — 
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