Phyllanlluoi. monoecia monadelphia. 665 



number correspoiuliiig with the cells of the berry. Berry 

 ilepressed, umbilicated, dark purple, succulent, fromeinhtto 

 twelve-celled. Seed, one or two in each cell, placed one 

 above the other. 



15. P. vitis idcsa. Kon. Mss. 



Sub-arboreous. Leaves bilbrious; /e///7e/s oval. Flowers 

 axillary. Calyx six-toothed, no nectaries, no style. Berries 

 succulent. 



Katou Nirouri, Rheed. Mai. v. t. 44. 



Bencj. K/nnkata Joolee. 



Yerra pooroogoodoo of the Telingas. 



This is one of the most common of the family ; it is found 

 M'ild in every part of India, and seems to thrive well in all 

 soils and situations ; but amongst the mountains, it grows to 

 be a tree ; whereas in the low lands it is generally a large 

 shrub. It flowers and produces fruit all the year round. 



Trunk when a tree, very straight. Branches spreading ho- 

 rizontally. Branchlets flexuose, bifarious. Leaves alternate, 

 bifarious, pinnate, flower-bearing, from five to eight inches 

 long. Leaflets alternate, oval, entire, smooth, about an inch 

 long and three-fourths broad. Petioles round, flexuose, 

 smooth. Stipules of the petioles three-fold, acute, those of 

 the leaflets two-fold. Flowers ; the male ones from the ex- 

 terior axills, from two to three-petioled ; the female ones 

 from the lower axills, solitary, petioled, at the flowerino- time 

 erect. Male cff/?/A- cam panulate, margin six-notched; seg- 

 ments rounded, inflexed. Nectary none. Filaments sinole, 

 clubbed. Anthers from three to five afiixed to the club by 

 their backs. Female calyx one-leaved, small, closely sur- 

 rounding the lower half of the germ, slightly six-notched, 

 JVectary none. Germ globular. Styles none. Stigmas three. 

 Berry red. 



The wood is white, hard and durable. The hill people em- 

 ploy it for various economical uses. Cattle eat the leav^es. 

 In drying for the hortus siccus, they always become very 

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