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812 DIOECIA HEXANDRIA. Menispermum. 
ed them thirty feet long, and in no part thicker than a pack- 
thread. Leaves alternate, petioled, broad-cordate, five-nerv- 
ed, entire, curved, smooth, about four inches each way, Peti- 
oles round, smooth, swelled at the base. Racemes axillary, 
or terminal, or from the tuberosities of former leaves, with 
frequently a few flowers in separate axills. lowers numer- 
ous, smallyyellow. Maze, Calyx six-leaved ; leaflets oval. 
Petals six, wedge-formed, half the length of the calyx ; mar- 
gins inflected and embracing the filaments, Filaments six, 
clubbed, spreading, rather longer than the petals. Anthers 
twin, immersed in the fleshy extremities of the filaments, Fn- 
MALE, Calyx and corolas in the male, Filaments six, fleshy, 
sterile, Germs three, superior, resting on a tumid receptacle, 
_ Style single, very short. Stigmas torn. Berries one, two, 
or three, generally one or two, rarely all the three come to 
maturity, of the size of asmall cherry, smooth, red, succulent, 
with very glutinous pulp, each resting on a tumid receptacle. 
Seed single, kidney-formed, on the inside there is a deep pit, 
which receives its receptacle. 
The fresh root is employed by the natives, in substance, 
mixed up with sour rice-gruel, and sweetened with sugar, for 
the cure of heat of urine in gonorrhoea, — Birds eat the ripe 
berries. The seeds are not used in these parts for any 
purpose that I can discover. To intoxicate fish, and render 
them easily caught, the natives employ the fruit of Gardenia 
dumetorum, the bark of Walsura, and Phyllanthus vire- 
sus, 
6M. villosum, R. 
Twining, every part soft with down, Leaves sreaiben: 
date, five-nerved, entire. Panicles axillary, sub-globular. 
A large twining perennial ; a native of Chittagong, in flow- 
er and fruit at different times of the year. The six anthers 
are of two large round lobes each, with round pores at the 
top. Nectarial scales or rather shearers ane oe 
and aeeer- 
