CitSlff, TETRANDRIA MONOGYNlAi 427 



7. C. angnstifoJia , R. 



Dioicous. Leaves ternate ; leaflets lanceolate, serrate, smooth. 

 Stipules ovate, .acute. Cymes shorter than the petioles. Berries 

 spherical, one or two-seeded. 



A delicate, scandent, perennial species, a native of Sumatra. 

 Flowers iu February ; seeds ripen in November. 



Ste?n scandent, slender, flat like a piece of tape. — Tendrils sim- 

 ple. — Leaves ternate. Lea/lets petiolate, lanceolate, remotely ser- 

 rate, acuminate, smooth on both sides, from three to six inches long, 

 and from one to one and a half broad. — Petioles shorter than the 

 leaflets, channelled, smooth. — Stipules triangularly ovate, acute, 

 smooth.— Cj/;vies axillary, solitary, nearly round, small, and shorter 

 than the peiioles.— Floicers small, greenish yellow, male on one plaut 

 and female on another. 



Male.— Cfl/yr, Corol and Stamina as in the genus. — Pistil no 

 other than a small aboitive roundish body on the centre of a four- 

 lobed gland. 



Female.— Cfl/j/r and Corol as in the male — Germ round, two- 

 celled, with two seeds m each. Sti/le none —Stigma large, obscure- 

 ly four-lobed, and somewhat lacerated —kernes spherical, smooth, 

 size of a pea, white, one or two-seeded, when cut or bruised very 

 fetid.— Fem/J^m conform to the seed.— Embri/o lodged in the lower 

 half of the perisperm. Cotyledons nearly round. Radicle cyliadnc, 

 inferior. 



8. C. can-iosa, Linn. Sp- PI- ed JVilld. I 658. 



Stem flattened, perennial. Leaves pelioled, ternate ; leafjts oval, 

 serrate. Berries four-seeded. 



Tsjori-Valli, Rheed. Mai. vii.p. 17- t. 9- 



Folium Causonis, Rumph. Amb. v. p. 450. t. l66./. 2. 



Teling. Kanapa-tiga. 



I. common in hedges and forests. Flowering time the rainy sea- 



'stem perennial, flat like a piece of tape, climbing to an extent of 



