656 PENTANDRU MONOGYNt.V. CvlasiritS. 



A native of the northern Circars. Id the Botanic garden 

 at Calcutta, it flowers during the rains. 



Stems in plants five years old erect, about live or six feel 

 high, stout, simple, flex uous, jointed, round, the \\ oody parts 

 pretty smooth, the more tender parts rather harsh, with coarse, 

 short pubescence. Leaves alternate, from pinnate to tripm- 

 nate, from one to three feet long, and often broader than long. 

 Leaflets ovate-lanceolate, the lateral ones with ;i broad-cordate 

 base, serrate, hairy underneath ; from five to ten inches long, 

 and from three to five broad. Petioles channelled on the up- 

 per edge. Stipules petiolary, large, semi-elliptic, villous, ca- 

 ducous. ( 'nines terminal, super-decompound, villous. Flow- 

 ers very numerous, small. Braetes linear, villous, caducous. 

 Calyx cainpanulate, five- toothed. Corol green, five-cleft. 

 Nectary round, ureeolate, pearl-coloured, inserted on the 

 mouth of the small tube of the corol, and there contracted by 

 a sharp vein on the inside, deeply five-parted ; segments li- 

 near-oblong, Meshy, with a thin, rounded apex. Filaments 

 inserted into the bottom of. the fissures of the nectary, above 

 the middle jointed, and there bent in and down. Anthers li- 

 near-oblong, inverted, and in that position their margins are 

 firmly united into a ring round the stigma. Germ superior, 

 ovate, six-celled, with one ovulum in each, attached to the 

 base of the axis. Style short, but thin, and six-grooved. Stiff- 

 ma rather largo, entire, convex. Berry much flattened, size 

 of a small cherry, smooth, black, and somewhat succulent, 

 six-lobed, six-celled. Seed solitary. Perisperm conform to 

 the seed, intersected with some deep brown fissures, as in all 

 the other species examined by me. Embryo small, a little 

 curved. Cotyledons subulate. Radicle inferior, pointing to 

 the umbilicus. 



4. L. hiria. Herb. Banks. 



Shrubby. Leaves pinnate, and bi-pinnate; leajlets lance- 

 olate, serrate, hairy. Anthers connected. 

 Beny. Kakttjangha. 



