84 flora indica. [Scliizandracea. 



anthems coalita. Anthera. liueari-oblongic, connectivo lateraliter adnatee, longitudi- 

 naliter dehiscentes. Baccce in capitulum globosum diam. 1-2-poll. congests, cu- 

 neato-subglobosa*, coccmeae, pisi vel tabic minoris magn. Semina 1-2. 



The sweet but flavourless fruit of this species is eaten by the inhabitants of Sik- 

 kim and Eastern Bengal Though confouuded by Wallich with K. Japonica, it ap- 

 pears to be quite distinct from the plant figured and described by Siebold and Zuc- 

 carmi. We have not seen Japanese specimens, bat a specimen in the Hookerian 

 Herbarium, brought from Hongkong by Major Champion, and referred by Bentham 

 without hesitation to K. Japonica, has larger flowers on very short pedicels, which are 

 more covered with bracts than those of the Indian plant. The leaves are also 

 thicker and firmer, scarcely toothed, and longer-petioled. The leaves vary much in 

 shape in all the species, and, as is often the case among scandent plants, the foliage of 

 the long suckers is very different from that of the lateral shoots of the second year. 



2. K. Wightiana (Arn. 1. c. ii. 546); foliis late ovalibus obtuse 



acuminatis basi cuneatis, tiluinentis discretis, ovariis triovulatis. — Wight, 



Cat. No. 2478. 



Hab. In Zeylania, alt. 2-3000 ped., Walker! ; Malabar, Wight 



(V. 8.) 



Frutex scandens, glaber, cortice rugoso fusco. Ramuli abbreviati (an semper?). 

 Folia basi cuneata, integra vel vix denticulata, subtus pallida, 2-3 poll, louga, ^-2 

 lata, petiolo £-poll. Fedunculi axillares, validi, petiolum vix superautes, bracteis 

 pluribus squaimeformibus o vat is deciduis. Sepala inaequalia, parva. Fetala 9, 

 ovalia, obtusa, iut. minora. Bacca prions. 



This appears to be a more rigid shrub than the last, with smaller and broader 

 leaves, and short, thick, woody branches. We have not seen the male plant. It is 

 worthy of note that K. Japonica is said by Siebold and Zuccarini to have also occa- 

 sionally three ovules and seeds. 



3. K. scandens (Blurtie? Fl. Jav. Schiz. p. 9. t. 1). 



A specimen of a Kadsura in the Beuthamian Herbarium, collected by Griffith at 

 Malacca, is very distinct from either of the former species, and probably belongs to 

 K. scandens ; but as it consists of a single leaf attached to the stem, and a few male 

 flowers, we do not feel justified in appending a description of that plant, especially 

 as Blume's figure and description of the andrcecium are unsatisfactory, and also not 

 easily reconciled with what we see in the single flower which we have been able to 

 examine. The leaves of K. scandens (and of our plant) are ovate or ovato-oblong 

 and acuminate, quite entire, glabrous, 4-6 inches long, and 2-4 broad, with a pe- 

 tiole 1-2 inches long. The flowers are axillary and solitary, and the pedicel is 

 shorter than the petiole. Blume further describes the stamens as free on the cylin- 

 drical torus, with the connective extending beyond the anther into a fleshy gibbous 

 process. This does not seem to be the case in the specimen from Malacca, but the 

 flower has been so much compressed that we cannot determine the structure with 

 anything like accuracy. K. scandens is further readily recognizable by the shape of 

 the carpels, which are terminated by an obtuse hooked mucro. 



2, SPttflEROSTEMA, Bl. 



Sepala 3. Fetala 6-9. Stamina 15 vel plura, monadelpha. Car- 

 pella globosa, secus torum cylindricum spicata. — Frutices scaudentes, 

 volubiles, glaberrimi, tioribus albis, flavidis vel rubescentibus. 



§ I. Filamentis basi monadelphis, apice liber is. 

 1. S. grandifiorum (BL Fl. Jav. Scliiz. 17) ; foliis ovato- vel ob- 



