Asparagus. iiexandria moxogy>ia. 153 



about two years, the plants blossomed in July for the 

 first time, and continue so to do, and to ripen their seeds 

 in January. 



Root perennial. Stems weak, diffuse, leaning much, 

 or scandent in a favorable soil and supported ; flexuose, 

 round and smooth, very ramous. Branches expanding, 

 angular. Thorns solitary, recurved, acute. Leaves tern, 

 three-sided, incurvate, acute, smooth, tapering toward 

 both sides. Racemes lateral, and generally one on each 

 side of a small branchlet, short, bearing a few, remote, 

 long-pedicelled, small white flowers. Pedicels jointed, 

 swelled, and bracted at the middle. Bracfes tapering, 

 membranaceous, two at the base of each pedicel, and 

 one at or near the middle. Filaments inserted on the pe- 

 tals above the base, incurved. Germ turbinate. Style, 

 short. Stigma of three, recurved lobes. Berry, size of a 

 pea, three-lobed, when ripe red. 



5. A. adscendens. R. 



Herbaceous, erect. Thorns solitary, straight. Leaves 

 fascicled, cylindric, straight. Racemes lateral, simple or 

 compound. Berries pendulous. 



This very elegant species, is a native of Rohilkhund ; 

 from thence Mr. A. Gott sent seeds to the Botanic Gar- 

 den at Calcutta in 1804, and in November 1807, the 

 plants began to blossom, and ripened their seeds in Fe- 

 bruary. 



Root perennial. Stems round, and .slender, yet in ge- 

 neral nearly straight and erect. Bark smooth, ash-co- 

 loured. Branches round, diverging, with their extremi- 

 ties ascending. Thorns solitary, straight, slender, and 

 acute. Leaves numerous, fascicled, cylindric, filiform, 

 smooth, permanent. Racemes lateral, at the insertions of 

 the branches and brauchlets, solitary, or one on each 

 side, the former, often compound. Flowers saiall, pure 

 white, supported on diverging, slender, jointed pedicells. 



