380 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. LmOTlia. 



tegument single, membranaceous. Perisperm none. Em- 

 bryo inverse. Cotyledons conform to the seed. Radicle 

 superior. 



4. L. scandens. R. 



Shrubby, scandent, armed. Leaves ternate ; leaflets lan- 

 ceohir, entire, smooth. Berries three seeded. 



Sans. LMV?/nga Iwta. 



Lnng-phool oi" the natives about Silhet. 



A very extensive, powerful, scandent shrub, a native 

 of the hills about Silhet and Chittagong, where it blos- 

 soms in March and April, and the seeds ripen in Sep- 

 teml er. 



Trunk or branches several from the same root, long, 

 thick, stout, ligneous, scandent, armed. Bark pretty 

 smooth and ash coloured. 77<orns axillary, solitary, strong, 

 long, acute, and a little recurved. Leaves alternate, ternate. 

 Li'oflets lanceolate, entire, smooth, shining and fi;m, from 

 six to seven inches long, having both surfaces marked with 

 minute, dark green, glandular dots, or cells, though the 

 smell, as in most leaves of this conformation, has nothing 

 particular in it; when the plants are young, the leaves are 

 simple. Petioles channelled, smooth, deep green like the 

 leaves. Peduncles axillary, or from the naked branchlets 

 below the leaves, each supporting from four to twelve, 

 pedicelled, pretty large, white, fragrant flowers, in form of 

 a raceme. Calyx one-leaved, cylindric, with the mouth cut 

 into four short, truncate divisions. Peta's tour, linear ob- 

 long, fleshy, recurved. Filaments ehj,ht; \hd lower half unit- 

 ed into a tirm fleshy tube. Au'hers linear, incumbent. 

 Germ conical, elevated on a fleshy receptacle, three-cell- 

 ed with two vertical ovula in each, attached to the axis. 

 Style cjlindric. Stigma entire, roundish. Berry ob- 

 long, somewhat three-lobed, size of a pigeon's egg, pretty 

 smooth, pulp of are.sinous nature, and odoriferous, three- 

 celled. Seed solitary, oval, somewhat pointed at the a- 



