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cup-shaped, unequally five-toothed. Petals five, obo- 

 vate, short-clawed. Stamina only three, all fertile. 

 Ger?n short-pedicelled, oblong, inserted on the under 

 margin of a large, two-lobed gland, which occupies the 

 centre of the flowers, one-celled, two-seeded. Style short. 

 Stigma simple. Legume oblong, thin, with the edges 

 even, and the apex a small recurved point, both sides 

 smooth, about two inches long, and one broad, one-cell- 

 ed. Seeds one or two, oval, with an obtuse point on 

 the anterior upper part, which is formed by the radicle 

 « compressed, smooth. Integument in the recent state 

 single. Perisperm in considerable quantity in the fresh 

 seed. Embryo curved, &c. as in the sides. 



14. B. corymbosa. R. 



Scandent. Leaves two-parted ; lobes seraicordate, ob- 

 tuse, two or three nerved. Corymbs terminal ; flowers 

 triandrous ; petals soatulate, and curled. Legumes linear, 

 from six to twelve-seeded. 



This very extensive delicate species, is a native of 

 China ; from thence seeds were sent to the Botanic 

 garden at Calcutta, where in five years the plants raised 

 from them began to blossom abundantly in April, and 

 ripened their seed in the rainy season. 



Stem scarcely any thing that deserves the name, but 

 many, long, slender branches, and branchlets, climb and 

 spread in every direction to an extent of many fathoms, 

 running over high trees, &c. Bark smooth, that of the old 

 ligneous parts dark-brown ; of the young shoots green,and 

 often coloured. Tendrils opposite, simple, short. Leaves 

 alternate, bifarious nearly round, smooth, divided for 

 about three-fourths down ; length and breadth about one 

 inch and a half, lobes semicordate, very obtuse, from 

 two to three-nerved. Stipules ensiform. Corymbs ter- 

 minal on the short lateral branchlets, short peduncled. 

 Flowers of a middling size, white with a faint tinge of 



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