152 HEXANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Asparogits. 



fascicled, incnrved, channelled on the back. Racemes 

 thorn-axillary over the ligneous branchlets. 



Sans. S«ta-moolee. 



Hind. Sada bori. 



Beng. Sut-mooli. 



A native of various parts of India. Flowering: time 

 the cold season, >\hen it perfumes the air to a consider- 

 able distance with the delightful fragrance of its flowers ; 

 seeds ripe in March. 



Root consisting of many, fusiform, smooth, perennial 

 tubers. Stems scandent, slender, woody smooth ; young 

 shoots striated. Thorns solitary, recurved, short, strung 

 and sharp. Leaves fascicled, filiform, incurved, three- 

 sided. Racemes generally simple, often crowded together 

 in the axills of the thorns, over the slender woody 

 branchlets. Bractes cordate, and scariose, several 

 abcmt the base of the raceme, they are one-flowered. 

 Pedicells diverging, jointed at the middle, one-flower- 

 ed. Flowers very numerous, small, pure white. Petals 

 oblong, reflexed. Filaments incurved, rather shorter 

 than the petals. Anthers purple. Germ superior, three- 

 lobed, three-celled, each containing about four ovula, at- 

 tached to the axis. Style short. Stigma three-cleft. 

 Berry three-lobed, two are generally small, and abortive ; 

 when ripe red, and covered with a small portion of pulp. 

 Seeds solitary, black. Embryo transverse, and cur\'ed in 

 a serpentine manner in the back of an ample, hard peris- 

 perm, nearly opposite to the umbilicus. 



4. A. curillus. Buch. 



Herbaceous, leaning. Thorns solitary, recurved. 

 Leaves tern, three-sided, acute, incurved. Racemes la- 

 teral, few-flowered. Flowers long-pedicelled. Petals 

 cuneifonu, expanding, 



A native of Xepal, from whence Dr. Buchanan sent 

 seeds thereof to the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where it 



