Smilaz,] LILIACE, 1071 
A tall, Se much- sage undershrub. Hina, 
Sada-bori, shakakul ; Beng. 
2213, fino ACEROSUS ee F. . ii. 150; ¥, B. J. Vie BLL, 
N. Bengal; Chittagong. 
A climbing, a undershrub. 
. Smilax Lin 
Climbing shrubs, aes erect cask é ip iietn alternate, rarely 
Opposite, persistent, 3-5-nerved and reticulate; petiole with 
usually 2 tendrils above ta base. Flowers small, umbellate, 
dicecious. Perianth of 6 free, incurved or recurved, subequal 
segments. 3 Stamens 6 or more, free from the base of the 
perianth ; filaments erect, free, short or long; anthers oblong, 
2-celled, didymous, with contiguous cells or with cells discrete on 
a forked connective. Pistillode 0. ¢ Staminodes filiform, 6 or 
8. Carpels 8, connate in a 8-gonous, 8-celled ovary; ovules in 
each cell 2, orthotropous, pendulous; style short or 0; stigmas 3, 
stout, recurved. Fruit a globose berry. Seeds by abortion 
solitary globose, or oftener 2 hemispheric, rarely 3; albumen 
horny ; embryo small. 
Umbels 2-3, very rarely more, alternate on a common pedun 
Petiole stout, always narrowly sheathing but not Cae pee the 
middle macrophy ylla 
Petiole rather slender, with 2 large, thickly coriaceous, indisting tly 
reticulate auricles below the middle..........s+..sesssseeeee* Roxburghiana. 
Umbels 7-20 0, ternate or wissen: on a common peduncle; petiole stout, 
With, in all except the eect leaves, 2 large, leafy, distinctly reticulate 
auricles below the middle prolifera 
2214. Smruax macropuyuta Roxb.; °F. L iii. 793; F. B. 1. 
vi. 310; EB. ape eee S. ecient I. iii. 793. S. ovali- 
folia F, I. iii. 
Chota Nomtoe W. Bengal; Chittagong. 
A large, prickly climber. Hind. Jangli aushbah; Beng. 
Chota Nagpur, Parasnath ; ‘\Ghitlagong. 
A large, prickly eres 
2216. Smruax protirERA Rox ;F. I. iii. 795; F. B. I. vi. 312; 
E. D. 8. 2258. S. ae ea F. I. iii. 793. 
In all the provinces. 
A large, prickly climber. 
