Smilax. dioecia hexandria. 793 



Leaves from cordate to cordate-oblong, smooth, acuminate, 

 five-nerved; -petioles sub-cylindric, without stipuli. 



Betiff. INIj/hesha. 



A native of the Garrow hills. 



4. S. Icmrifolia. Willd. iv. 779. 



Scandeiit, somewhat angular, armed. Leaves lanceolate 

 and narrow, oblong, smooth, triple-nerved to the acuminate 

 apex. Umbels compound. Berries from one to three-lobed, 

 from one to three-seeded. 



Koomari or Koomari sookh-China of the Bengalees. 



A native of the Garrow hills, where it grows to be a large, 

 rambling, scandent, well armed perennial. Flowering time 

 the hot season; the seed ripens about the end of the rains. 

 On the permanent base of the petioles, just under the ten- 

 drils, are two large semicordate stipulse. The umbellets are 

 numerous, particularly in the female, forming panicles, with 

 the long peduncled umbels in alternate threes on the angles 

 of the rachis. 



5. S. retusa. R. 



Scandent, columnar, much armed. Leaves sub-ovate, cor- 

 date, retuse; with a triangular point, triple-nerved, with a 

 fine intermarginal pair, stipules stem-clasping. 



A most extensive rambler, a native of Bengal, every part 

 glossy, which is indeed the case with all the East Indian spe- 

 cies known to me. 



6. S. macrophylta. R. 



Scandent ; stem and branches cylindric and prickly. 

 Leaves sub-rotund, five-nerved, glossy. Female umbellets a 

 few on a common axillary peduncle. 



A very large and extensive, Avell armed species, a native of 

 Bengal, where it blossoms about the beginning of the rains 

 in June, and the seed ripens in October and November. 



Root permanent, somewhat tuberous. Stems sometimes 



VO L. II. 1 V 



