PoiJtaS. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA.. 457 



nate; secrments falcate, cuspidate. Flowers lateral, or axillary, long- 

 pedimclcd. 



Guj-p/ppwl is the vernacular name of this very large, powerful 

 species, in the Silhet district, where it is indigenous, and blossoms 

 during the hot season. 



Stems as thick as a stout cane, rooting on, and ascending trees 

 like the common Ivy- round, smooth, and rather contracted between 

 the leaves. — Leaies approximate, alternate, petioled, pinnatifid, or 

 completely pinnate ; from two to six, or seven feet long, including the 

 petioles; segments, or leailets, linear-falcate, cuspidate, entire, smooth, 

 sometimes from three to four-nerved or triple-nerved; length from, 

 six to eighteen inches, and two broad.— Fe^io/es from six inches, to 

 three feet long, round, smooth, stem-chisping, and the lower portion 

 more deeply channelled.— Peiw/^c/es solitary, axillary or lateral, 

 ab'^ut six inches long, substaiitia'.iy thick, round, smooth, and replete 

 ■witli the same wliile bristly spicula that are found in the germ and 

 seed vessels. — S/>ait//e sub-cjiiudric, length of the peduncle. — Spa^ 

 dix cyiindric, length of the spathe, completely covered with the in- 

 numerable fructilicaiions Cal^r none. Corol none, nor any thing 



like either. — Filaments about four to each germ, and nearly of their 

 length. Anthers cordate, appearing beyond the germ.— G'erw? nu- 

 merous, the most general form a four- sided wedge, apex truncate. 

 Stale, scarcely any. Stigma, an elevated vertically oblong opening. 



9. P. helerophijlla, R. 



Caulescent, creeping, armed. Leaves from cordate-sagittate to 

 pinna'.ifid. Spathe erect, spiral, many times longer than the short 

 cyiindric spadlx. Florets tetrapetalous, tetrandrous. 



Can it be Dracontiam spinosum, Flor. Zeyl. 32S 



A native of Bengal, dellglitir.g in a rich, moist soil; it flowers, 

 though rarely, during the cool season. 



Root librous.— S.'ems and branches creeping, armed with short, 

 sharp prickles— Leaws until the plants are old, and begin to flower, 

 simple-sagitate, and cordate-sagittate, afterwards pinuatitid, witli 



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