694 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Opllioxiflon. 



superior, slightly united, each one-seeded. Embryo inverse, 

 and furnished with a perisperm. 



1. O. serpentinum. Willd. iv. 979. 



Tsiovanna-Amel-Podi. RheecL Mai. vi. 81. I. 47. 



Radix Mustela. Rumph. Jlinb. vii. 29. t. 16. 



Sans. Chwndrika, Chwrm»«hw,ntree, Pwshoomehmn/karika, 

 Nmub/nee, Karwvee, Bhwdra, Vasoopooshptt, Vaswra, Ch?m- 

 drwshoora. 



Beny. Chandra. 



Hind. Ch'hota-chand. 



Telinga. Patalganni. 



This, in a rich soil, is a large climbing or twining shrub : 

 in a poor soil, small and erect. It is a native of the Circar 

 mountains. In my garden it flowers all the year round. 



Stem woody, erect, climbing, or twining. Bar k ash-co- 

 loured. Leaves three or five-fold, 'short-petioled, oblong, 

 pointed, waved, entire, smooth ; from four to five inches long-, 

 and about two broad. Stipules none. Fascicles axillary, pe- 

 duncled, many-flowered. Peduncles long, smooth, round, 

 sometimes nearly erect, sometimes drooping. Pedicels and 

 calyces of a bright red colour, which with the white flowers, 

 gives the fascicles a very pretty appearance. 



The Hermaphrodite Flowers, indeed I never could 

 discover any oilier, are well described in the Genera Planta- 

 rum, except that the corol is always contracted. Germ su- 

 perior, two lobed, with one ovuluui in each, attached to the 

 inner and lower corner of the cell. Berry two-lobed, smooth, 

 shining black, and succulent when ripe ; lobes the size of a 

 pea, each one-celled. Seed solitary, somewhat trapeziform. 

 Integuments two, the exterior one nuciform, most pointed at 

 the base, hard, thick, and rugose, the inner one a fine mem- 

 brane, adhering to the perisperm. I erisperm conform to 

 the seed, greenish white. Embryo inverse, straight, nearly 

 as long as the perisperm. Cotyledons round, cordate. Ra- 

 dicle sub-cylindric. 



