412 TKTRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ( issuS. 



acute, obtusely serrate, smooth above, villous underneath. 

 Stipules ear-shaped. Berries round, smooth, one-seeded. 

 A native of Mysore, from thence sent to the Botanic garden 



in 1802, by Mr. 15. J ley no, \\ here it flowers and ripens its fruit 

 through the m hole year. 



Stem, in live yedrs old plants, as thick as a man's wrist, and 

 of great length, even up to the tops of high trees. Bark 

 spongy, and deeply cracked ; young shoots succulent, round, 

 and villous. Leaves alternate, remote, long-petioled, quinate. 

 Leaflets petioled, oblong-obovate, or rhombic, acute, serrate, 

 smooth and shining* above, villous underneath; the superior 

 from two to three inches long, two-thirds of that in breadth, 

 the exterior much larger. Petioles nearly as long as the 

 leaflets, round, and villous. Stipules ear-shaped, recurved. 

 Tendrils leaf-opposed, two or three cleft. Cymes axillary, or 

 terminal ; diehotomous or trichotomous, these again several 

 times divided. Germ conical, containing four seeds in one 

 cell, attached to its bottom. Berry, the size, shape, and ap- 

 pearance of a red cherry, one-seeded. Seed obliquely obo- 

 vate, a little compressed, somewhat pointed at the base, and 

 there attached to the bottom of the cell. Integument single, 

 nuciform, rugose, covered with the green pulp of the berry, 

 which adheres to it, and may, when dry, be considered a se- 

 cond integument. Peris-perm conform to the seed, cartila- 

 ginous, gray ; from the inner edge two fissures penetrate deep- 

 ly, and divide it nearly into three portions. Hmbryo erect, 

 white, lodged in the base of the perispenn. Cotyledons two ; 

 pedicelled, renil'orm. Plumula minute. Radicle oblong - , in- 

 ferior, a little curved, with the apex to the umbilicus. 



13. C. laiacnlaria. II. 



Dioicous. Leaves pedate-quinate; /cr///<7.vlanceolar, smooth, 

 remotely serrulate. Stipules conically lanceolate. Cymes 

 the length of the petioles. 



Vallia-Tsjori-Valli. Rltecd. Mai. vii. p. 15. /. 8. 



A native of the mountains along the eastern frontier of 



