424 TETRANDIIIA MONOGYNtll CisSltg. 



Stem and large hranc/ies ligneous, climbing over trees to a con- 

 siderable extent, voung shoots round, a little downy and slightly fur- 

 rowed. — Leaves alternate, round-cordate, and often obliquely so, 

 acuminate, bristle-serrate, the largest sometimes slightly repand ; 

 pretty smooth above, but downy underneath, particularly the veins, 

 from two to six inches long, one-fourth less in breadth. — Peduncles 

 half the length of the leaves, downy. — Stipules nearly oval, adnata, 

 elevated, and of a deeper green in the middle ; margins scariose, and 

 brown. — Tendrils opposite to the leaves where there is no cyme. — 

 Cymes opposite to the leaves, on villous peduncles, as long as the 

 petioles, very ramous, flat. — Flowers numerous, small, drooping. 

 The germ has two cells, in each of which are two seeds attached 

 from their lower end to the partition at the bottom of the cell. — 

 Serry succulent, size of a pea, when ripe black, and smooth, gene- 

 rally one-celled. — Seed for the most part solitary, obovate, lower 

 end pointed. — Integuments two, exteriornuciform, and rugose; inner 

 a very thin, white membrane, which adheres firmly to the perisperm. 

 • — Perisperm conform to the seed, dull white, cartilaginous, divided 

 by two fissures into three, nearly equal parts. — Pimbryo scarcely 

 half the length of the perisperm. Cotyledons rexniovxn. Radicle 

 oblong, inferior. 



2. C. vitiginea, Linn. Sp. PI ed. Willd. i. ^55. 



Leaves cordate-serrate. Cymes decompound. Berries one or 

 two-seeded. 



Jlind. and Beng. Guali-Iata. 



Teling. ISIaratta-tiga. 



This species is a native of forests, mountains, and wray sides in 

 uncultivated places. 

 ' Trunk woolly, branchy, climbing over trees and shrubs to a great 

 extent. Tendril opposite to the leaves, two-cleft.- — Leaves alternate, 

 petioled, cordate, serrate, or dentate, pretty smooth on both sides, 

 from four to six inches long, and from three to foin- broad. — Stipules 

 cordate, — Cymes peduncled, leaf-opposed^ more than compound.— 



