794 DIOBCIA HEXANDRIA, Smilax. 
herbaceous, sometimes biennial or even perennial, round, 
armed with short sharp prickles, but void of every thing like 
pubescence, scandent, and ramous toward the root, as thick 
as a walking cane; the general length several fathoms; some 
seasons they: perish down to the root at the approach of winter, 
and appear about the beginning of the hot season in February 
and March, at other times they are biennial or more, Leaves 
alternate, short-petioled, round, entire, five-nerved, glossy, 
six or eight inches each way. Petioles short, keeled, with the 
margins of the channel winged. Tendrils petiolary, undivid- 
ed. Femae, Peduneles axillary, solitary, divided into two 
or three branches, each supporting a single, globular umbel- 
let of large, greenish yellow, pedicelled flowers, inserted on a 
round scrobiculate receptacle. Calyx six-leaved ; the inner 
series narrower. Filaments six, slender, and abortive. Germ 
globular, three-celled, with one ovulum in each, attached to 
the upper end of the axis, Sty/es recurved. Berries the size — 
of a pea, red, smooth, generally one, or two-seeded, Seed, 
pores and embryo as in the genus. 
ue s. Teak ola. R. 
Stems cylindric, armed. Leaves unarmed, oval, enntlh, 
from five to seven-nerved. Petioles tendril-bearing. — 
compound, 
_ Beng. Koomurki. 
.. Teling. Kunda gurvatiga. 
A native of hedges, forests, and wid places, 
Root tuberous, Stems cylindric, climbing, woody ; the lar- 
ger woody parts armed with sharp, strong, incurved prickles. 
Tendrils paired, from the wings of the petioles, one on each 
side, simple. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, unarmed, oval, 
from five to seven-nerved, smooth on both sides, entire ; from 
five to.seven inches long, Petioles short, winged, channelled, — 
bearing a simple tendril on each side of their base, Jointed 
| just above the tendrils, and there, though the leaf drops, leav- 
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