O'iSIlS, lETIllNDRIA MONOSYNlAi 431 



A native of the mountains along the eastern frontier of Benoral. In 

 the Botanic Garden it blossoms in February and March. 



Dunk scandent, stout, ligneous, in six year-old plants as thick as 

 a man's wrist, lialtened, and grooved on the two flat sides. Bark 

 dark brown, rough or deeply cracked. Branches and Branchlets 

 climbing, or jiendidous A\hen not supported; young parts round, 

 green and generally smooth ; extent of the whole plant several fa- 

 thoms. ^ — Tendri/s leaf-opposed, generally undivided. — Leaves alter- 

 nate, petioled, pedate. Leaflets generally five, lanceolar, recurvate, 

 most remotely and sharply serrulate, long, taper, acute-poinfed, both 

 sides polished; texture rather fleshy, length from three to six inches, 

 and from one tn two broad. — Petioles and petio/ets clothed with short, 

 reddish hair-^. — Stipules large, of a narrow conic shape. — Cj/mes 

 sub-axil!ary, or close by the side of the base of the petioles', shorter 

 than the } etioles, or when most luxuriant much shorter than the 

 leaves, the ultimate divisions each supporting a small globular umbel- 

 let, of small pale yellow flowers. — Bractes round the base of the pe- 

 duncles, cordate. 



Male. — Cali/x scarcely any. — Coro? and stamina as in the genus. 

 — Pistil none, an umbihcate, yellow, round, convex gland occupying 

 its place. 



]4. C.pedatUf Linn. Sp. Tl ed. Willd. i. 659- 



Perennial, scandent. Tendrils simple, or two-cleft. Leaves pe- 

 date ; leajlet>i broad-^auceolate, serrate. Berries four-seeded. 



Belutta-Tsjori-Valh, Bheed. Mai vii. p. 19- /• 10. 



C. heptaphylla, Rett. Obs. v. '22. 



Beng. Gwalia. 



This is another very extensively climbing species, as indeed they 

 all are; a native of forests, hedges, &c. Flowering time the rainy 



season. 



Stems woody, climbing over trees, S:c. young parts covered with 

 soft down.— Tendrils leaf-opposed, simple or tuo-cleft.— Ideates al- 

 ternate; petioled; pedate. Leaflets oblong, irregularly serrate, downy. 



