VltlS. PENT4NDRIA MOXOGYNI A. <;(>>| 



Trunk woody, climbing- over trees, &c. ; young shoots 

 very long-, covered with a little rusty wool. Tendrils op- 

 posite, simple, or split. Leaves alternate, petioled, cordate, 

 serrate ; above a little woolly, below much so ; four inches 

 long, by three broad. Petioles round, woolly, two inches 

 long. Peduncles opposite, composed of compound racemes, 

 a little woolly, flowers very numerous, small, green, fasci- 

 cled. Petals cohering at the top; when they drop they seem 

 to be a rnonopetalous corol, and what was the top must then 

 be considered as the bottom. Berries round, purple, succu- 

 lent, size of a pea, one or two-seeded. 



:}. V. latifolia. R. 



Herbaceous, climbing. Leaves cordate-lobate, crenate- 

 serrate, smooth. Tendrils panicle-bearing. Petals oblong. 

 Germs embraced by a nectarial cup. 



Vallia-Pira-Pitica. Rheed. Mai. vii. 13. t. 7. 



Beng. Govila. 



A native of Bengal and of the warmer maritime parts of 

 India, blossoming about the beginning- of the rainy season ; 

 and ripening its fruit in July. 



Root tuberous. Stem and branches herbaceous, climb- 

 ing, round, and smooth, very long, and slender, running o\ < r 

 trees, &c. to a great extent. Tendrils leaf-opposed, gener- 

 ally two-parted, panicle- bearing. Leaves petioled, alter- 

 nate, always opposite to a tendril, nearly of around, cordate- 

 lobate shape, with three, five, or seven rather acute lobes; 

 margins serrate-dentate, pretty smooth on both sides, length 

 and breadth from three to nine inches. Panicles issuing so- 

 litarily from the middle of the tendrils before they divide; 

 peduncles ovate, dense. Flowers very numerous, small, of a 

 deep reddish brown. Bractes linear. Calyx small, ob- 

 scurely five-toothed. Petals oblong, at first expanding, then 

 reflexed. Germ superior, nearly round, two-celled, with two 

 ovula in each, attached to the bottom of the cell. Style 

 none. Stigma a pit in the lobate apex of the germ. Berry 



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