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the tapering base of the leaves ; the ssharp point of the acumi- 

 nate leaves is also a good mark ; for though in P. scandens 

 the same mark exists, even in a greater degree, yet this is a 

 small tree ; that a scandent shrub. 



9. P. esculenta. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves short-petioled, oblong-, grossly serrate, 

 acuminate, smooth. Corymbs terminal, dense. 



A native of Chittagong, where the natives use the leaves 

 in their diet, as well as in medicine. In the Botanic garden 

 it continues in flower and fruit nearly the whole year. 



Stem short. Branches and branchlets opposite. Bark on 

 the young shoots, smooth, of a clear green. Leaves opposite, 

 short- petioled, oblong, broadest a little above the middle, 

 grossly and acutely serrate, acuminate, from four to ten 

 inches long, by from two to five broad. Stipules none. 

 Corymbs terminal, short-ped uncled, broad, and much crowd- 

 ed, with some pairs of opposite, multifid, smooth branches. 

 Flowers numerous, small, of a greenish yellow. Bractes mi- 

 nute. Calyx unequally five-toothed. Carol with a short cam- 

 panulate tube, fior^/er four- parted; w/?/>er /o6e broad, ob- 

 tusely three-toothed, and vaulted over the hairy mouth of the 

 tube, anthers, and stigma ; the other three lobes nearly equal, 

 and may be called the lower lip ; the base of the middle one 

 thereof is yellow. Anthers twin. Germ four-celled, with one 

 ovulum in each, attached to the upper part of the partitions. 

 AS^/y/e, length of the stamina. »S'A//7/?m two-toothed. Drupe 

 minute, round, smooth, purple. Nut turbinate, rugose, four- 

 celled, with a perforation up the centre. Seeds solitary, obo- 

 vate. Perisperm none. Embryo erect. Cotyledons equal^ 

 conform to the seed. Radicle inferior. 



JO. P. integrifolia. W'dld. iii. 314. 



Arboreous. Leaves elliptic, entire, smooth. Corymbs 

 terminal, rather irregular. 



Folium hirci. Rumph, Ainb. iii. t. 134. 

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