806 _DIOECIA HEXANDRIA. Menispermum. 
of two years’ growth, which grew in this garden, was rather 
more than a foot in diameter. Szem annual, twining to a 
very great extent, round, and armed with numerous acute 
pricklets, otherwise smooth, Leaves long-petioled, ternate. 
Leaflets, the middle one cuneate, obovate, the lateral sub- 
semicordate, all are acute, entire, both sides villous while 
young, from three to five-nerved, various in size, the largest 
often a foot long, and six inches broad. Petioles slightly 
armed with small prickles, and like the leaves, villous while 
young. Maus. Inflorescence; spikes axillary, compound, 
drooping, sometimes leaf-beariug ; the general length from 
six to eighteen inches. Calyx. The exterior three leaflets 
round and smaller than the inner three, which are ovate. 
FEMALE FLOWERS on a different plant. Spikes axillary, 
solitary, pendulous, lowers remote. Calyx as in the 
male, Germ beneath, very large, three-sided, villous. Styles 
scarcely any. Siigmas three. 
17. D. pentaphylla. Willd. iv. 739. 
 Tubers oblong. Stems herbaceous, twining, prickly. 
Leaves digitate, downy. Male flowers panicled, the fe- 
male ones spiked. 
Beng. Kanta-aloo. 
Nuren-kelengu. Rheed, Mal, vii. t. 34, and 35,. 
This species I have only found in its wild state; though 
the root is large, white, and reckoned very wholesome and 
palatable, and eaten by the natives, Flowering time the 
mer season. 
sae hats 
\ MENISPERMUM. Schreb. gen. N. 1544. 
Mate. Galyz six-leaved. Corol six-petalled, Fem ALE. 
Calyx and. corol asin the male. Germs three, or six, sing- 
ly one-celled, ‘one-seeded ; atliachment interior, Berries 
three, or six, one-seeded, Bales yo inverse and furnished with 
a perisperm, 
