Smilax. DIOECIA HEXANDRIA. a - 
Umbels axillary, compound ; uwmbellets globular, Pedun- 
cles and pedicels columnar, smooth, coloured. Bractes two 
at the base of each peduncle, with smaller, reflexed, partial 
bracteoli to the umbellets, Frmate. Calyx the three ex- 
terior leaflets larger, all revolute; nectary three subulate 
bodies within the calyx. Germ oblong. Styles short. Stig- 
mas truncate, Berries above, red, smooth, succulent, two or 
three-seeded. 
8. 8. prolifera. R. me 
Stem and branches cylindric, prickly. Leaves unarmpsa 
oblong, triple-nerved, with a slender marginal pair. Umbels 
proliferous, super-decompound ; umbellets globular, long- 
peduncled. 
A native of hedges and thickets in the vicinity of Caleutia 
where it blossoms in February and March. 
Root strong, slender, hard, fibres springing from a small 
tuberous, hard, ligneous crown or base. Stems and branches 
perennial, scandent, of some. few fathoms in length, round, 
armed with numerous, rather recuryed, short, thick, sharp. 
prickles, Leaves from lanceolar to oblong, triple-nerved, be- 
sides a very slender sub-marginal pair, entire, smooth on both 
sides, from three to four inches long, and from one to twobroad, 
Petioles variously bent and ahha. at the base a permanent, 
stipulaceous, cirriferous enlargement. Matz. Umbels axil- 
lary, proliferous, rather shorter than the leaves. Umbellets 
Jong-pedicelled, globular, Flowers numerous, middle sized, 
green, Calyz six-leaved, all linear and revolute, but the three 
exterior ones much broader. Corol none, Filaments six, as 
Jong as the calyx. Anthers linear-oblong, recurved. Fe- 
MALE. Unmbels axillary, three or four times proliferous; 
umbellets globular, long-peduncled. Flowers numerous, 
small, of a greenish yellow, long-pedicelled, Calyx as in the 
male, Filamenis or nectaries six, filiform, shorter than the 
petals, Germ superior, globular, three-celled, with one ovu- 
lum in each, attached to the top of the axis, Styles three, re- 
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