670 MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. PlujUuntlniS. 



A large, shrubby, somewhat climbing- plant ; a native of 

 Sumatra, and brought from thence to the Botanic garden by 

 Mr. William Roxburgh, in 1803, where it flowers during the 

 rains chiefly. 



Trunk scarcely any, but many long, straggling or climb- 

 ing', woody branches, clothed with dark brown, smooth bark ; 

 branchlels reclinate, round, smooth, and green. Leaves pin- 

 nate, and reclinate, from twelve to thirty-six inches long. 

 Leaflets from six to twenty pair, alternate, short-petioled, 

 cvafe-oblong, entire, smooth, about an inch and a half long, 

 and less than one inch broad. Stipules of the leaves three- 

 fold ; those of the leaflets paired. jP/bujers leaflet-axillary, 

 generally several, small, yellow, the male ones in a few of the 

 lowermost axills, and one smaller, shorter peduncled, green 

 female one in the exterior. Male calyx turbinate, one-leaved, 

 with a contracted, six-toothed mouth, teeth alternately small- 

 er, and incurvate. Filament single, columnar, clavate, with 

 six linear, two-lobed anthers round its upper two-thirds. Fe- 

 male calyx six-toothed ; teeth rounded. Germ turbinate, 

 three-celled, with two seeds in each. Styles scarcely any. 

 Stiginas three, triangular, incurvate. Capsule compressed, 

 turbinate, of the size of a pea, smooth, red, three-celled, three- 

 valved, each valve separating into two, from the case up- 

 wards as in Bradleia. Seeds two in each cell, angular, in- 

 teguments three ; the exterior one a complete, soft, orange- 

 coloured aril ; the second, hard, thick and black ; the interior 

 one membranaceous. Perisperm conform to the seed. Em- 

 bryo inverse, curved. Cotyledons oblong. Radicle cylindric, 

 superior. 



21. P. str ictus. R. 



Shrubby, straight. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets firm, ovate 

 oblong to lanceolate. Racemes axillary ; male calyx one- 

 leaved ;ye»ja/e deeply six-parted. Capsule berried. 



A native of the Malay Islands, to the eastward of the Bay 

 of Bengal. 



