734 MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA, Modecca. 
2. M. tuberosa. R. 
Leaves three, rarely five-lobed ; /obes sub-lanceolar, apex 
of the petioles with two glands and one (or an eye) under 
each sinus. Capsules globular. 
Modecca. Rheed. Mal. viii. t. 20. 
A most extensive, perennial, climbing plant, with large, fu- 
siform root, a considerable portion of which is above ground, 
tapering from the surface of the earth, into the stem, which in 
a few years becomes ligneous; younger shoots cylindric and 
smooth, From Cochin it was introduced by Mr. M. Brown 
into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where it blossoms dur- 
ing the rainy season. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, when the plants are very young 
simply cordate, often from three to five-lobed (palmate,) but 
three is by far the most common ; lobes entire, sub-lanceolate, 
smooth, rather acuminate ; siti size from six to eight 
inches each way. Glands, a large yellow one under each sinus 
and two on the base where it joins the petiole. Petioles consi- 
derably shorter than the leaves; base enlarged into a horn- 
shaped process on each side, this portion is permanent. St- 
pules none. Tendrils springing from the inside of the large 
permanent base’ of the petioles, when not floriferous, simple. 
Flowers pretty large, short-pedicelled, and generally from 
a small dichotomous corymb on the middle of the tendril. 
Coles. one-leaved, coloured, greenish yellow, of a short, sub- 
nulate. form, with a short five-parted border, Petals 
five, linear; the upper half ciliate, inserted on the tube of the 
7 calyx, near its bottom, the whole hid within it. Nectarial 
seales five, alternate with the petals, vaulted, and serving” ee a 
confine the five anthers. Filaments five, their base united ss 
ito a ring round the base of the pedicel of the germ, and 
about as long as its pedicels, recurved. Anthers small, 
roundish. I suspect there are male flowers which I have 
not yet seen, with more perfect anthers. Germ superior, 
short-pedicelled, oval, one-celled ; ovula numerous, attach- 
ed to three vertical, parietal receptacles. Styles three, re- 
