124 AMPELIDER. Viris, 
of the stalk and disk, 5-celled: ovules 8-12 in each cell Style short, 5- 
angled, deciduous: stigma peltate, obscurely 5-angled, marked above with 
5 rays. Fruit capsular, 5-celled, 5-valved, dehiscing from the apex ; valves 
separating from the persistent axis which is 5-angled by the dissepiments. 
Seeds suspended from the top of the axis, produced downwards into a wing. 
Albumen fleshy in small quantity, firmly adhering to the thin spongy in- 
tegument of the seed. Embryo nearly erect: radicle superior, shorter than 
the cotyledons, exserted.—Leaves pinnated ; leaflets opposite or nearly so, 
many-paired, unequal sided. Panicles terminal, large, pyramidal. 
Occasionally the flowers exhibit the quaternary and senary arrangements. 
408. (1) C. Toona (Roxb.:) leaves abruptly pinnate ; leaflets from 6 to 12 
pair, ovate-lanceolate, acuminated, slightly undulated on the margin, quite 
entire or slightly and distinctly toothed, glabrous: panicles drooping: petals 
ciliated : sterile filaments none: ovary with a very short stalk, and 8 ovules 
in each cell: capsule oblong.—Rowb. Cor. 3. t. 238; fl. Ind. 1. p. 635; (ed. 
Wall. 2. p. 423; Roth. nov. sp. p. 162; DC. prod. 1. p. 624; Spr. syst. 1. 
p. 795 ; Wall.! L. n.1272; Wight ! cat. n. 393.—Rumph. Amb. 3. t. 39. 
A specimen sent from Java to Dr Hooker is named, and probably correctly, 
C. febrifuga, Blume: if so, we cannot see the slightest character to separate 
it from the present species. We suspect that there is some mistake about C. 
villosa, Roxb., mentioned in the Hort. Bengh., as Roxburgh omits it in the 
Flora Indica. The specimens from Nepal alone have the leaves toothed, but 
they do not appear to constitute a distinct species, even although the sta- 
mens be usually six ; it was therefore called C. hexandra by Dr Wallich. 
ORDER XL.—AMPELIDE/E. Rich. 
Calyx small, nearly entire. Petals 4-5, sometimes cohering above, 
and calyptriform : æstivation valvate. Stamens 4-5, opposite to the 
petals : filaments distinct, or slightly cohering at the base, or attached 
to the outside of a 5-lobed urceolus (formed of abortive stamens con- 
nected together by an expansion of the torus): anthers ovate, versatile. 
Torus an annular disk, bearing the petals on its exterior, and the sta- 
mens on its surface. Ovarium 2-celled with the ovules in pairs, or 6- 
celled with the ovules solitary: ovules erect: style 1, short: stigma 
simple. Berry globose, pulpy, 2- (or often by abortion 1-) celled. 
Seeds 1-6, erect: testa hard. Albumen horny. Embryo erect: ra- 
dicle slender, inferior: cotyledons lanceolate or subulate.— Usually 
climbing shrubs. Leaves, lower ones opposite, upper alternate, with 
racemes opposite to them, which are sometimes abortive, and change 
into tendrils. 
I. VITIS. ` Linn. ; R. Brown ; Gaertn. fr. t. 106. 
Calyx nearly entire. Petals 4-5, distinct and patent, or united at the apex 
but distinct at the base, and falling off like a calyptra. Torus elevated in the 
centre, and surrounding the lower part of the ovary, with which it is incor- 
porated, girt at the base by a short ring (expansion of the torus) upon which 
the stamens are inserted. Ovary partly enclosed within the torus, 2- (or 0¢- 
easionally 3-) celled. Ovules 2 in each cell. Berry 1-2- (or occasionally 
3-) celled, 1—4-seeded.—Peduncles usually changed, occasionally in whole 
or in part, into tendrils. 
