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pointed, smootli, shining, from four to six inches long, and one or 

 two inches broad. — Fetioles round, smooth, from one to two inches 



long. — Cj/mes bhort-peduncled, axillary. — Bractes small, fallino^. 



Flowers small, green— Ca/yjc small. — Corol four or flve-petalled 

 generally four. JSeda.y scarcely any.— Stamens none, or at most 

 a snjail seemingly sterile one. — Germ superioi, globose. Style 

 none. Siigma four, or five-lobed, according to the petals in the corol. 

 — 1 have not seen the ripe fruit. 



1 !. C. elongataj B. 



Tender shoots succulent, polished. Leaves digitate ; leaflets pe- 

 liolate, oblong, acute, remotely serrate, smooth. 



Be)fg. Dliemna, which is also the name of a long serpent. 



Found amongst the mountains of the Coast of Coromandel, as 

 ■well as in the forests of Bengal. Flowering time the hot season. 



Stem very long, running up and over the highest trees, a little 

 compressed, and mitil many ytars old smooth, polishtd, succulent, 

 deep green. Branches few or r.one, until the plant arrives at a great 

 height, and is several years of age.— -Leaves alternate, petioled, digi- 

 tate. Leaflets five, petioled, oblong, the lower pair obliquely so, 

 serrate, smooth on both sides, from two to six inches long, and from 

 one to three broad. — Petioles round, smooth, from four to five inches 

 long. Peliolets channelled — Stipule cordate, small, sub-adjoined. 

 ^-Tendrils leaf-opposed, simple. — Cymes trichotomous, anddichoto- 

 nious; the last divisions short, atid ending in small umbellets. — Brac- 

 tes cordate, permanent. — Calyx four-loothed. — Cu;'o/, petals four, 

 inserted in a bell which surrounds tlie body of the germ. ISIectary 

 a four-lobed, coloured elevation between the stamina and the inser- 

 tion of the style. — I'ilaments four, inserted opposite to, and just 

 within the petals. Anthers incumbent. — Germ oval. Style short. 

 Stigma simple — Berry the size of a cherry, round-turbinate; smooth, 

 ■when ripe hhck.~ Seed single, large, somewhat rugose. 



