430 JETRANDHIA MeNOGYNIA. CisSllS. 



12. C. aurkidata, R. 



Scandent, perennial. Leaves quinate ; leaflets oblong, acute, ob- 

 tusely serrate, smooth above, villous undcrueatli. Stipules ear-ali'di^- 

 ed. Berries round, smcoili, one-seeded. 



A native of Mysore, from thence sent to the Botanic Garden in 

 1802, by Mr. B. Heyne, where it flowers and ripens its fi uit ihrougU 

 the whole year. 



Stem, in live years old plants, as thick as a man's wrist, and of great 

 length, even up to the tops of high trees. Lark spuniiy, and deeply 

 cracked, young shoots succulent, round, and villous. — Leaves alter- 

 nate, remote, long-petioled, quinate. Lcy^ets petioled, ol.l..ng-ob- 

 ovate, or rhombic, acute, serrate, smooth and ^shiuuig above, villous 

 underneath ; the superior from two to three inches long, and two- 

 thirds of that in breadth, the exterior much larger. — I>if/o/es nearly 

 as long as the leaflets, round, and villous.— S///y«/<^5 ear-shaped, re- 

 curved. — Tendrils leaf-opposed, two or three-cleft. — Cymes axillary, 

 or terminal ; dichotomous or trichotomous, these a-uin several 

 times divided. — Germ conical, containing four seeds in one cell, at- 

 tached to its bottom.— /ier/j/, the size, shape, and appearance of a red 

 cherry, one-seeded.— S^^(/ obliquely obovate, a little compressed, 

 somewhat pointed at the base, and there attached to the bottom of the 

 cell. Integument single, nucifurm, rugose, covered with the green 

 pulp of the berry, which adheies to it, and may, when dry, be consi- 

 dered a second integument. — Peiisperm conform to the seed, carti- 

 laginous, grey; from the inner edge two-flssures penetrat>i deeply, 

 and divide it nearly into three portions. — Embryo erect, w hite, lodg- 

 ed in the base of the T^Qi\s^e\m.— Cotyledons two ; pedicelled, reni- 

 form. Plumula minute. Radicle oblong, inferior, a little curved, 

 with the apex to the umbilicus. 



13. C. lanceolaria, R. 



Dioicous. Leaves pedate -quinate ; leaflets lanceolar, smooth, re- 

 motely serrulate. Stipules conicall} lanceolate. Cymes the length 

 of the petioles. 



Vallia-Tsjori-Valli, Rheed, Mai vii. p. 15. t. 8. 



