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Root perennial. Stems several, herbaceous, somewhat 

 Moody, from four to five feet high, jointed, swelled above 

 the joints, the young shoots chiefly are ornamented with from 

 six to eight, thin, short, much curled wings. Leaves alter- 

 nate, petioled, generally quinate-pinnate, though i„ luxuri- 

 ant plants the lower pair is sometimes compound. Leaflets 

 petioled, ovate-oblong, pointed, deeply and acutely serrate; 

 veins numerous, simple, parallel, large, running- off at an an- 

 gle of about forty-five degrees, corresponding in number with 

 the serratures of the margin, and ending in their points, as 

 in Dillenia speciosa. Petioles four or five- winged ; wings 

 curled, &c. as on the branches. Stipules falcate, not cilia te. 

 Cymes terminal, small, a little hairy, five-flowered. Bractes 

 minute, hairy, margins running down the next peduncle or 

 pedicel immediately below, forming a deep groove thereon, 

 with high winged margins. Calyx absolutely five-toothed, 

 permanent. Carol as in the last species. Nectary also as in 

 the last. Anthers lodged within the mouth of the nectary, 

 but not adhering to one another. Germ conical, six-celled, 

 with one ovulum in each, attached to the base of the axis. 

 Style five-grooved. Berry round, size of a small cherry, 

 when ripe smooth, black, and succulent, six-celled. Seeds one 

 in each cell, all of which \cry frequently come to perfection, 

 obliquely-obovate, inserted near the inner and lower angle 

 to the lower part of a soft, central receptacle. Integument 

 single, hard, and pretty smooth; a very thin membrane 

 seems to cover and adhere to the perisperm. Perisperm con- 

 form to the seed, deeply intersected with brown, clammy fis- 

 sures. Embryo small, lodged in the base of the perisperm 

 near the umbilicus, a little incurvate. Cotyledons subulate. 

 Radicles inferior, oblono-. 



3. L. robusta. R. 



Shrubby, jointed, pubescent. Leaves bi- and tri-pinnate; 

 leaflets ovate-lanceolate, serrate, cuspidate. JVectary sub- 

 globular. 



