536 MONOECIA MONANDRIA. FictlS. 



rally acutely and regularly serrate, the upper surface scab- 

 rous, underneath downy; size very various. Petioles about 

 half the length of the leaves. Stipules opposite, and not drop- 

 ping so soon as in the other species I have met with. Fruit 

 axillary, solitary, peduncled, obovate, somewhat scabrous, 

 scarcely the size of the point of the little finger. Peduncle 

 bracted at the middle, or it may be called a three-leaved ca- 

 lyx, and then the fruit is pedicelled, 



17. F. radicans. R. 



Shrubby, scandent, and rooting. Leaves oblong, entire, 

 long-linear, acuminate. Fruit globular, without a common 

 calyx, long-peduncled. Male corollets monandrous. 



Poora rooha the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is in- 

 dioenous ; it g-rows to be of a considerable extent, rootino- 

 upon old walls, various kinds of bushes and trees, like the 

 ivy in Europe and the parasites in India, but has its main 

 root generally though not always on ihe ground. In fruit the 

 whole year. 



Young shoots a little harsh to the feel, and green. Leaves 

 alternate, petioled, oblong, entire, three-nerved ; apex long, 

 and very narrow, or ensiform like that of F. religiosa, hard 

 and rather rough with reticulate veins underneath ; lateral 

 nerves small, springing from the base and running close to the 

 margin ; from three to six inches long, and from one to three 

 broad. Stipules as in the genus, but small. Fruit paired or 

 single from the base of the little branchlets, all axillary, long- 

 peduncled, round, of the size of a black currant, when ripe, 

 yellow or orange. Calyx of the receptacle none. Proper 

 perianth in both male and female five-cleft ; segments ensi- 

 form. Male corollets monandrous, a few round the inside of 

 the mouth of the receptacle, all the rest female. 



18. F. scandens. R, 



Shrubby, scandent. Leaves short-petioled, ovate, entire, 

 fruit in axillary pairs, round, peduncled ; common cabjx 

 three-toothed. 



