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of many futhom>^ ; ramous, and climbing* up and over trees of 

 a large size. 



III the Botanic garden it grows slowly, though healthy ; 

 flowers during the rains, and the fruit ripens in October. 



Bark on the old ligneous parts ash-coloured ; on the young- 

 shoots smooth, polished, green. Leaves remote, alternate, pe- 

 tioled, smooth on both sides, thiee-lobed, with lh(! lobes en- 

 tire, tapering ami acute. Glands a large yellow one under 

 each sinus and two at the base. Petioles nearly as long as 

 the leaves, columnar, smooth, base permanent, though not 

 enlarged, as in M. tnherosa, and becoming a recurved, blunt, 

 short thorn. Tendrils, axillary floriferous ; when not tlori- 

 ferous, simple. JFlowers numerous, male and female, mix- 

 ed on the same tendril, middling-sized, forming a little di- 

 chotomous corymb toAvard the apex of the tendrils. Calyx 

 tubular, somewhat gibbous towards the base; colour pale 

 yellow ; moutli five-parted. Petals five, linear-lanceolate, ci- 

 liate, inserted on the tube of die calyx, near the base. Nec- 

 taritil scales, on the male none, on i\\e female ten ; five are 

 alternate with the petals, entire, and truncated, and five un- 

 der the petals smaller and ciliate. Filaments in the male, five 

 united into a tube. Anthers linear, erect. Germ in the male 

 a small three-cleft gland, in ihe female short-pedicelled, ob- 

 long, one-celled ; ovula many, attached to three ventrical pa- 

 rietal receptacles. Style none. Stigma three lobed. Capsule 

 pedicellcd, berried, oblong, of the size of a pullet's e^^, fleshy, 

 smooth, polished, of a scarlet colour, three-valved, opening 

 from the apex. Seeds many, attached by very thick, soft, 

 fleshy cords, to a thickened ridge, down the middle of each 

 valve, obcordate, inversed in a completely soft lucid aril. In- 

 teyiiments two; the exterior one nuciform, dark-coloured, 

 scrobiculate ; the interior one membranaceous. Perisperm 

 conform to the seed, somewhat glaucous. Embryo nearly as 

 large as the perisperm, with round, three-nerved cotyledons, 

 and the radicle lodged at the umbilicus of the seed. 



