Smilax. DIOECIA HEXANDRIA. 793 
Leaves from cordate to cordate-oblong, smooth, acuminate, 
iie-panteds petioles sub-cylindric, without stipuli, 
= Muhesha. 
_A native of the Garrow hills, 
cl S. laurifolia, Willd. iv, 779. 
sslizundentt somewhat angular, armed. Leaves lanceolate 
and narrow, oblong, smooth, triple-nerved to the acuminate 
apex. Umbelscompound. Berries from one to three- jobads 
from one to three-seeded. 
-Koomari or Koomari-sookh-China of the Bengal! 
| A native of the Garrow hills, where it grows to be a large, 
rambling, scandent, well armed perennial. Flowering time 
the hot season; the seed ripens about the end of the rains, 
On. the permanent base of the petioles, just under the ten- 
drils, are two large semicordate stipule. The umbellets are 
humerous, particularly in the female, forming panicles, with 
the long peduncled umbels in alternate threes on the_ angles 
of the sathies 
5. S. retusa, R. ae 
~ Scandent, columnar, much armed. tonal wabcowate; cor- 
nip retuse; witha triangular point, triple-nerved, with maf 
fine intermarginal pair, stipules stem-clasping. ~ 
A most extensive rambler, a native of Biemelabeiaes part 
glossy, which is indeed the case with all the East Indian spe- 
cies known to me. 
6.8, macrophylla. R. 
-Scandent ; stem and branches cylindric and prickly. 
Samaee sub-rotund, five-nerved, glossy. Female eines a 
few.on a common axillary peduncle. 
_) A very large and extensive, wel] armed species, a native »of 
Bengal, where’ it blossoms about the beginning of the rains 
in June, and the seed ripens in October and November. 
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