CisSHS. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 411 



short-peduncled, axillary. Bractes small, falling 1 . Flowers 

 small, green. Calyx small. L'orol four or five-petalled, ge- 

 nerally four. Nectary scarcely any. Stamens none, or at 

 most a small seemingly sterile one. Germ superior, globose. 

 Style none. Stigma four, or five-lobed, according to the 

 petals in the corol. I have not seen the ripe fruit. 



11. C. elongata. R. 



Tender shoots succulent, polished. Leaves digitate ; leaflets 

 petiolate, oblong, acute, remotely serrate, smooth. 



Beng. Bhemna, which is also the name of a long serpent. 



Found amongst the mountains of the coast of Coromandel, 

 as well as in the forests of Bengal. Flowering time the hot 

 season. 



Stem very long, running up and over the highest trees, a 

 little compressed, and until many years old smooth, polished, 

 succulent, deep green. Branches few or none, until the plant 

 arrives at a great height, and is several years of age. Leaves 

 alternate, petioled, digitate. Leaflets five, petioled, oblong, 

 the lower pair obliquely so, serrate, smooth on both sides, from 

 two to six inches long, and from one to three broad. Petioles 

 round, smooth, from four to five inches long. Fetioleis chan- 

 nelled. Stipule cordate, small, sub-adjoined. Tendrils leaf- 

 opposed, simple. Cymes trichotomous, and dichotomous; the 

 last divisions short, and ending in small umbellets. Bractes 

 cordate, permanent. Calyx four-toothed: Corol, petals four, 

 inserted in a belt which surrounds the body of the germ. 

 Nectary a four-lobed, coloured elevation between the stamina 

 and the insertion of the style. Filaments four, inserted oppo- 

 site to, and just within the petals. Anthers incumbent. Germ 

 oval. Style short. Stigma simple. Berry the size of a cherry, 

 i ound-turbinate, smooth, when ripe black. Seed single, large, 

 somewhat rugose. 



12. C. auriculata. R. 



Scandent, perennial. Leaves quinate ; leaflets oblong. 



