796 DIOECIA HEXANDRITA, Smilax. 
curved. Stigmas large and trifid. Berry globose, of the size 
and appearance of a red currant, one or two-seeded. 
9. S. maculata, Roxb. 
‘Shrubby, scandent, angular, and armed. Leaves hastate, 
cordate, entire, acute, from three to seven-nerved. Racemes 
both male and female, axillary. 
A native of Nepal, from_thence Dr, Buchanan sent seeds 
to the Botanic garden in 1802, where the plants blossom dur- 
ing the cold season, and ripen their seed by the piates of 
May. 
Stems, or rather branches numerous, shrubby, scandent, or 
resting on the ground, angular, and armed with short, slight- 
ly recurvate prickles, Tendrils in pairs from the base of the 
petioles, simple. Leaves alternate, petioled, hastate-cordate, 
margins entire, from three to seven-nerved, smooth, maculated 
with patches of pale green, with a dark margin, and a few small 
; prickles on the nerves underneath, generally from three to six 
inches long, and from one to three inches broad. Petioles 
jout an inch long, and somewhat angular and prickly. Ra- 
cemes axillary and terminal ‘aohitalby. * generally shorter than 
the leaves, Flowers numerous, in alternate fascicles of six 
or eight, pedicelled, white, fragrant. Bractes round the 
base of the pedicels, scariose, and very small. Mae FLOW- 
ERS, Calyx six-leaved. Leaflets oblong, smooth, spread- 
ing, ‘the three exterior ones somewhat larger. Filaments 
erect. Anthers oblong. FEMALE FLOWERS nearly as in 
em: le. "Stamina, six small, abortive, round, subulate bo- 
‘Inse rted ‘round the base of the germ. Germ oblong, 
lobed. Styles none. Stigmas three, oblong, re- 
curved, Berry of the size of a pea, smooth, red, three-lobed, 
three-celled, with a single seed in each attached to the apex 
of the cells. Perisperm cartilaginous, of a pale bluish’ white 
colour. Embryo simple, small, cylindric, we ge in the — 
of the eco: opposite te ie umbilicus. 
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