662 POLYANDRFA POLYGYNIA. UvaricC, 



gular, obtuse divisions united at the base, yellow. Fila- 

 ments shorter than the germs, each headed with a large, 

 roundish, subulate, pointed gland. Anthers a groove 

 on each side below the heads. Germ many, sessile, 

 linear, one-celled, with two vertical rows of ovula there- 

 in attached to the inner angle. Styles scarcely any. The 

 stigmas, are so firmly united into one solid, hemispheric, 

 glandular body that they cannot be separated. Berries 

 about a dozen on pretty long pedicels, from a hemispheric 

 umbel, singly oblong, about the size of a small olive, 

 smooth, when ripe black. Seeds from six to twelve, se- 

 parated by the soft greenish pulp of the berry, flattened, 

 ovate, or nearly so, pitted. Perisperm and embryo as in 

 the genus. See Gcert. Sem. 2. 155. t. 114. 



5. U. fornicata. R. 



Scandent. Leaves cuneate-lanceolate. Peduncles be- 

 tween the leaves, one flowered ; the exterior three petals 

 large, and lanceolate, the inner three small, and coalesced 

 into a cone over the genitalia. 



Beng. L?<tamala. 



A large scandent .shrub, a native of Silhet, where it 

 flowers in May and June. 



6. U. bicolor. R. 



Scandent. Leaves linear, oblong, acuminate, parallel- 

 veined, a little hairy underneath. Peduncles one or two 

 between and opposite to the leaves. Petals six, nearly 

 equal ; the exterior three, brown and hirsute, the inner 

 three, smooth and red. Berries spherical, very villous, 

 from four to eight-seeded. 



A large, stout, scandent shrub, a native of Silhet; it 

 flowers in April, and the fruit ripens during the rains. 



7. U. cordifolia. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves cordate, and ovate-cordate. Pedun- 



