328 DECANDRIA MONOGYNiA. BauJiinia. 



13. B. anguma. R. 



Scandent. Stetii compressed, flexuose ; /eAwres approx- 

 imate, regularly and alternately concave and convex 

 on the two flat sides. Leaves subcordate, smooth, en- 

 tire, or two-lobed ; lobes subtriangular, and acuminate. 

 Panicles terminal, flowers triandrous. Legumes oval, 

 smooth, from one to two-seeded. 



Naga-ma-valle. Rheed. Mai. 8. t. 30 and 31. 

 Folium linga. Riiniph. Amh. 5. t. 1. cannot be this, and 

 to it 1 have retained the old Linnean specific name scan- 

 dens, though some other might be better, as there are ma- 

 ny scandent species now known. 

 Nag-poot is the vernacular name in Silhet. 

 This is the most extraordinary as well as one of the 

 most extensive ramblers I have met with. It is a native 

 of the mountainous tracts in the vicinity of Silhet, Chit- 

 tagong, &c. and the most regularly serpentine pieces of 

 the stems and large branches are carried about by our nu- 

 merous mendicants, to keep ofl' serpents. Flowering time 

 about the end of the rains, and the seeds ripen in the cool 

 season. Stems and large branches flat being from four to 

 six inches broad, scarcely half an inch thick, when old the 

 margins become double, like the letter V or T, and pretty 

 straight, whereas the body, or space between them, is most 

 regularly flexuose, with the flexures alternately convex 

 and concave. Bark rather rough, and ill defined. Wood 

 hard, but porous, and nearly white. Branches and branch- 

 lets bifarious, and regularly alternate, from the flexuose 

 parts just mentioned. Tendrils simple, or bifid, permanent. 

 Leaves bifarious, alternate, petioled ; on the older plants 

 entire or nearly so, and round-cordate ; on young plants; 

 and on the luxuriant shoots, more or less bifid, with the 

 lobes narrow and tapering much to their points ; from five 

 to seven-nerved, smooth on both sides, from two to six 

 inches each way. Panicles terminal, composed of long, sim- 

 ple racemes, of numerous, very small white flowers. Calyx 



