796 DioiiciA HEXANDRu. Smilux, 



curved. Stif/mns large and trifid. Berry globose, of the size 

 and appearance of a red currant, one or two-seeded. 



9. S. macufata. Roxb. 



Shrubby, scandent, angular, and armed. Leaves hastate, 

 cordate, entire, acute, from three to seven-nerved. Racemes 

 both male and female, axillary. 



A native of Nepal, from thence Dr. Buchanan sent seeds 

 to the Botanic g-arden in 1802, where the plants blossom dur- 

 ing- the cold season, and ripen their seed by the month of 

 May. 



Stems, or rather branches numerous, shrubby, scandent, or 

 resting on the ground, angular, and armed with short, slight- 

 ly recurvate prickles. Tendrils in pairs from the base of the 

 petioles, simple. Leaves alternate, petioled, hastate-cordate, 

 margins entire, from three to seven-nerved, smooth, maculated 

 with patches of pale green, with a dark margin, and a few small 

 prickles on the nerves underneath, generally from three to six 

 inches long, and from one to three inches broad. Petioles 

 about an inch long, and somewhat angular and prickly. Ra- 

 cemes axillary and terminal, solitary, generally shorter than 

 the leaves. Flowers numerous, in alternate fascicles of six 

 or eight, pedicelled, white, fragrant. Bractes round the 

 base of the pedicels, scariose, and very small. Male flow- 

 ers. Calyx six-leaved. Leaflets oblong, smooth, spread- 

 ing, the three exterior ones somewhat larger. Filaments 

 erect. Anthers oblong. Female flowers nearly as in 

 the male. Stamina, six small, abortive, round, subulate bo- 

 dies inserted round the base of the germ. Germ oblono*, 

 smooth, three-lobed. Stylesnowe. Stigmas three, oblong, re- 

 curved. Berry of the size of a pea, smooth, red, three-lobed, 

 three-celled, with a single seed in each attached to the apex 

 of the cells. Perisperm cartilaginous, of a pale bluish white 

 colour. Embryo simple, small, cylindric, lodged in the base 

 of the perisperm, opposite to the umbilicus. 



