682 pentandria monogynia. Deeringia. 



tan/ with only five antheriferous divisions. Style three- 

 cleft. Capsules bacciform, evalvular, many-seeded. 



A native of the Moluccas. It is an erect, smooth annual, 

 with long, delicately thin leaves. 



DEERINGIA. Brown, prodr. nov. hall i. 413. 

 Calyx five-leaved. Corol none. Filaments having their 

 base united into a little cup. Germ one-celled, many-seed- 

 ed ; attachment inferior. Berry one-celled. Seeds a few, 

 attached by their proper cords to the bottom of the cell. 



1. D. celosioides. Brown, loc. cit. 



Perennial, scandent. Leaves alternate, cordate. Spikes 

 terminal, panicled. Styles threes Berries ; three-seeded. 



Celosia baccata. Koen. in Retz. Obs. 5. 23. 



JBlitum fructescens. Humph. Amb. v. 235. t. S3.y. 2. 



Beng. Gola Mohwiiee. 



Hind, hutawn. 



Found near Calcutta, flowering in the rains. 



Root nearly spindle-formed, large, perennial. Stems and 

 branches one, two, or more fathoms long; perennial, climb- 

 ing, striated, otherwise smooth. Leaves alternate, petioled, 

 cordate, acute, entire. Spikes panicled, terminal, and from 

 the exterior axills long, ascending. Flowers numerous, dis- 

 tinct. Calycle three-leaved, bractiform. Filaments five, 

 from the nectary ; anthers two lobed. Styles three. 



In January I found a very large plant of this climbing 

 over a small tree, of about sixteen or eighteen feet high, with 

 few leaves, but innumerable, beautiful, pendulous racemes 

 loaded with small, smooth, bright red berries, each contained 

 when perfect, three small, black, flattened, roundish, kidney- 

 shaped seeds in one distinct cavity of the berry. 



