260 LILIACE. [ Surnax. 
usually 2 tendrils above its base. Flowers small, dcoarens um- 
bellate. Perianth of 6 free segments, incurved or recurved. Matz 
flowers: Stamens 6 or more, free from the basé of the perianth ; 
anthers oblong, 2-celled, didymous, cells contiguous or separated 
on a forked connective. Pistillode none. Frm. flowers: Stami- 
nodes 6 or 3. Ovary 3-gonous, style short or none; stigmas 3, 
stout, recurved ; ovules 1 or 2 in each cell, orthotropous, pendulous. 
Fruit a globose berry. Seeds solitary, globose, oftener 2 and hemis- 
pheric, rarely 3; albumen horny, embryo small.—Species about 
180, in temperate and tropical regions 
Umbels 2-3, very rarely more, alternate on a 
common peduncle : — 
Petiole stout, always narrowly sheathing 
but not auriculate below the middle . 1. 8. macrophylla. 
Petiole rather slender, with 2 large, thickly 
coriaceous, indistinctly reticulate auricles 
below the middle . ; . 2.8. Roxburghiana. 
Umbels 7- 20, ternate or whorled on a common 
peduncle ; petiole stout, with, in all except 
the uppermost leaves, 2 large leaf-like dis- 
tinctly reticulate auricles below the middle . 3. 8S. prolifera. 
1.S.macrophylla- Rocb.; Fl, Ind. iii, 793 (no: of Willd.),; 
F&, B. I. vi, 310; Watt E. D.; Prain Beng. Pl. 1071 ; Kanjilal 
For. Fl. (ed. 2) 407 ; Brandis Ind. Trees 641 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ti, 
763. SS. retusa, Rorb Fl. Ind. iii, 793. 8S. ovalifolia, Roxb. 1. c. 
794.—Vern. Ramdatun 
A large more or less prickly climber. Stems smooth, striate, armed 
with a few small distant prickles or almost unarmed. Leaves alter- 
nate, 3-8 in. long or sometimes much larger, broadly ovate or sub- 
orbicular, acuminate or cuspidate, glabrous, shinning ; main nerves 
usually 5, with reticulate venation between ; petioles 4-1 in. long. 
stout, narrowly sheathing, but not auriculate below the middle, 
tendrils very long and slender. Umbels 2-3, rarely more, alternate 
on a common peduncle, many fid. ; peduncles 4-3 in. long ; bracts 
below the peduncles ovate, acute, ,1;-% in long ; pedicels of both male 
and female flowers arising from a mass of numerous minute bracts. 
Mate flowers: Pedicels } in. Perianth 3-4 in. long; segments 
linar, obtuse, erect when young, afterwards reflexed, the 3 outer 
ones broader. Stamens about as long asthe perianth. Ferm. flowers : 
Perianth as in male; pedicels elongating in fruit. Berry about the 
size of a large pea, smooth, green and turning to red when ripe. 
