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erect: herbarium specimens, however, shew its climbing habit only very 
 imperfectly, and often not at all; and besides, Linnæus may have adopted 
this from Rumphius. Rheede’s figure does not represent a climbing plant, 
but the volume in which it occurs treats only ** de fruticibus scandentibus,” 
as parasites, climbers, or plants which require the support of others. Jack, 
in the Mal. mise. 1. p. 13, and Hook. Bot. misc. 2. p. 67, refers Rheede’s 
figure to his M. tetrandra ; and except that his plant is stated to be a small 
diffuse shrub, there is no difference whatever between it and M. wmbellata: 
this difference we are even not much inclined to regard as of great conse- 
quence, because our plant in particular localities scarcely at all climbs. Per- 
haps M. parvifolia, Bartl., is a mere variety of the same species. 
SUBTRIBE 2. GUETTARDEX. DC. 
Flowers distinct and not concrete. 
XV. VANGUERIA. Comm.; Lam. ill. t. 159; Gertn. fr. 3. t. 198. 
Calyx-tube short, obovate ; limb spreading, 5-toothed, deciduous. Co- 
rolla globular-campanulate, 5-cleft, with much hair in the throat: lobes ovate 
or lanceolate, acute, recurved. Stamens 5: filaments very short: anthers 
oblong, scarcely exserted. Ovary 5-celled, with one ovule in each cell. 
Style filiform, about the length of the corolla. Stigma exserted, mitriform, 
or capitate and 5-angled. Berry succulent, not crowned with the calyx but 
marked with its traces, containing five bony 1-seeded nuts. Seeds attached 
tothe inner angle of each nut near the middle, oblong. Albumen fleshy. 
Embryo large: cotyledons long, plano-convex ; radicle about the length of 
the cotyledons, superior.—Small trees or shrubs. Leaves petioled, ovate or 
oblong. Stipules solitary on both sides. Cymes branched, somewhat pa- 
nicled, axillary, or from the cicatrices of the fallen leaves. Corolla greenish- 
white. Fruit edible. 
* 1294. (1) V. edulis (Vahl.:) unarmed : leaves ovate or oblong, membra- 
naceous, glabrous: cymes below the leaves from the old cicatrices: stigma 
exserted, thick, shortly cylindrical and mitriform.—Vahl. symb. 3. p. 36. ; DC. 
prod. 4. p. 454 ; Spr. syst. 1. p. 760 ; Wight ! cat. n. 1323.—V . cymosa, Gertn. 
fr. p. 75. t. 193.—V. Madagascariensis, Gmel. syst. 1. p. 367.— V. Commerso- 
nii, Desf. ; Jacq. hort. Schenbr. 1. t. 44.—Vananga chinensis, Rohr, in Skrift. 
nat. selsk. Kiovenh. 2. p. 207.—V. edulis, Rohr, l. c. p. 208. t. 7. 
We presume this to have been introduced into the Peninsula: there are 
plants of it in the Missionaries’ Garden supposed to have been brought from 
Batavia. V. spinosa, Roxb. ! (in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1032), is a distinct spe- 
cies, although united by Sprengel: the branches àre sometimes without 
thorns; the stigma is represented flat and peltate in the drawing, and is de- 
scribed 5-lobed: we find it nearly globose with 5 longitudinal angles or 
ridges. ds 
XVI. GUETTARDA. Linn.; Ventn. 
Calyx-ovate or globose: limb tubular, persistent or-deciduous, truncated 
or irregularly toothed. Corolla hypocrateriform : tube cylindrical : lobes 4-9, 
oval-oblong. Anthers 4-9, sessile in the throat of the corolla, included. 
Stigma capitate, rarely 2-lobed. Fruit drupaceous, roundish or ovate, crown- 
ed with the tube of the calyx: nut obtusely angled, 4-9-celled: cells straight 
or curved, l-seeded. Seeds erect, somewhat terete.—Small trees or shrubs. 
Leaves ovate or lanceolate, rarely cordate. Stipules lanceolate, deciduous, 
