164 triandria monogynia. Loejlingia. 



Trunk leaning-, often as thick as a man's thigh. Branches 

 numerous, climbing. T/mrns one here and there over the 

 old woody parts only, very large and strong, shaped like the 

 horn of a Rhinoceros. Leaves alternate, bifarious, petioled, 

 oval, entire, smooth, about two inches long, and one broad. 

 Racemes axillary, solitary, half the length of the leaves, few- 

 flowered. Flowers small, white. Calyx cup form, entire, 

 permanent, and enlarging- with the fruit. Petals three ; one, 

 two, or all three half two-cleft; divisions linear, spreading. 

 Nectary, a bifid, filiform, yellow body, rising from the in- 

 side of the base of each division of the petals. Filaments 

 three, short, standing between the nectaries, inserted into the 

 petals below their fissures. Jlnthers oblong. Germ superior, 

 ovate, one-celled, containing one ovulum attached to the bot- 

 tom of the cell. Style length of the corol. Stigma simple. 

 Drupe or berry globular, three-fourths covered with the en- 

 larged calyx, yellow, pulpy, one-celled. Birds are fond of 

 them. Seed single, globular. Integuments two ; exterior nu- 

 ciform; inner one white and spongy. Perisperm conform to 

 the seed, amygdaline. Embryo inverse, minute, lodged in 

 the apex of the perisperm. Cotyledons two, equal, minute, 

 semi linear. Radicle larger than the cotyledons, oval, supe- 

 rior. 



2. O. imbricata. R. 



Shrubby, scandent. Leaves bifarious, from ovate-lanceo- 

 late to oblong, entire, glossy. Racemes axillary, before the 

 flower expands bifariously imbricated, (like the spiculae in 

 Briza.) Drupes ovate. 



A very large climbing shrub, or tree, if any scandant plant 

 can be so called ; a native of Chittagong, where it flowers in 

 the hot season. 



LOEFLINGIA. Schreb. gin. N. 71- 

 Calyx five-leaved. Corol five-petalled. Capsules superi- 

 or, one-celled, three-valved. 



