CisSllS. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 409 



A delicate, scandent, perennial species, a native of Suma- 

 tra. Flowers in February ; seeds ripen in November. 



Stem scandent, slender, flat like a piece of tape. Tendrils 

 simple. Leaves ternate. Leaflets petiolate, lanceolate, re- 

 motely serrate, acuminate, smooth on both sides, from three 

 to six inches long, and from one to oue and a half broad. 

 Petioles shorter than the leaflets, channelled, smooth. Sti- 

 pules triangularly ovate, acute, smooth. Cymes axillary, so- 

 litary, nearly round, small, and shorter than the petioles. 

 Flowers small, greenish yellow, male on one plant and female 

 on another. 



Male. Calyx, corol. and stamina as in the genus. Pistil 

 no other than a small abortive roundish body on the centre of 

 a four-lobed gland. 



Female. Calyx and corol as in the male. Germ round, 

 two-celled, with two seeds in each. Style none. Stigma 

 large, obscurely four-lobed, and somewhat lacerated. Berries 

 spherical, smooth, size of a pea, white, one or two-seeded, 

 when cut or bruised very fetid. Perisperm conform to the 

 seed. Embryo lodged in the lower half of the perisperm. 

 Cotyledons nearly round. Radicle cylindric, inferior. 



8. C. camosa. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 65S. 



Stem flattened, perennial. Leaves petioled, ternate ; leaf- 

 lets oval, serrate. Berries four-seeded. 



Tsjori-Valli. Rheed. Mai. vii. p. 17. t. 9. 



Folium Causonis. Rumph. Amb. v. p. 450./. t. 166./. 2. 



Teliny. Kanapa-tiga. 



Is common in hedges and forests. Flowering time the rainy 

 season. 



Stem perennial, flat like a piece of tape, climbing to an ex- 

 tent of many fathoms ; young shoots villous. Tendrils leaf- 

 opposed, from two to three-cleft. Leaves alternate, petioled, 

 ternate. Leaflets oval, grossly serrate, downy, from two to 

 three inches long. Petioles round, downy. Stipules oblong, 



