616 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ScopoUa. 



inches long; perfectly smooth, very glossy and lucid, of a 

 dark green colour above ; pallid and shining underneath, 

 with a whitish slender rib and a few oblique nerves, the 

 lowermost pair of which are opposite; the base rising a little 

 above the rib, in consequence of which the leaf appears 

 triple-nerved; veins capillary, transversal, reticulate. Pe- 

 tiole slender, a little compressed, channelled, slightly pubes- 

 cent, about an inch long. Stipules minute, withering, ad- 

 pressed, lanceolate, with a broad fleshy base and glandular 

 apex. Flowers small, yellowish green, fragrant, collected 

 in rounded, axillary, ramous fascicles which are shorter than 

 the petals. Peduncles pubescent ; bractes very small ; pe- 

 dicels capillary, two or three times longer than the flower, 

 yellowish. Calyx cup-shaped, with five broad, cuspidate, 

 somewhat margined, deciduous lacinite, equalling in length 

 the cuneate, fornicate, narrow petals. Vertex of the ovary 

 covered with a broad rugose yellow disc. Style short, 

 deeply three-lobed, deciduous. Stigmas convex, scabrous. 

 Capsules round-obovate, about the size of a small gooseber- 

 ry, pale-brown, its vertex retuse, its base supported by the 

 persistent circularly-truncate bottom of the calyx, three- 

 furrowed, three-celled, three-valved. Seeds triangular, with 

 gibbous back, ash-coloured. The rest as in C. circumscissa 

 (Rhamnus Linn.) Gatrt. carp. ii. 110. 1. 106. 



SCOPOLIA. Smith. 

 Calyx five-toothed. Corol five-petalled. Germ superior, 

 five-celled ; cells two-seeded ; attachment interior. Berry 

 five-celled, with generally one seed in each cell. 



1. S. aculeata. Smith, ic. ined. ii. 34. Willd. sp. i. 1115. 

 Scandent, armed. Leaves ternate ; leaflets crenulate. 

 Paullinia asiatica. Linn. sp. pi. 524. 

 Kaka-toddali. Rheed. Mai. v. 81. t. 41. 



