288 i>imTANimiA moNogynia; S'erissa. 



Tendrils leaf-opposed, bifid, with thickened divisions. Berry glo- 

 bular, one-seeded. 



Native name Kousi-Kandiera. 



Found by M. Leschenault in the forests near Koudracotta, 

 about twenty miles south of Tanjore, with unripe fruits. He has 

 kindly communicated a specimen with the following description. 



"Stem scandent, saimentose. Branchhts horizontal .--Leaves 

 opposite, short-petioled, elliptic or sub-ovate, acuminate, three- 

 nerved, smooth. — Tendrils leaf-opposed (occupying the place of a 

 leaf), bifid, with slightly thickened ends ; there is constantly a pair 

 of squamiform bractes under their divisions." 



Obs. by N. W. 



Branches opposite, shining, ash-coloured, minutely and most co- 

 piously dotted ; otherwise perfectly smooth, as are all the other 

 parts. Leaves about three inches long, sometimes lanceolate, most- 

 ly acute, occasionally obtuse, but always terminated by a small 

 cuspidula. They are regularly tri- and triple-nerved ; the outer 

 nerves, proceeding from the base, being very fine, sub-marginal. — 

 There is invariably a pair of opposite, stipulary, triangular, pointed, 

 adpressed bractes under the insertion of the branches, and a solita- 

 ry one under each tendril, and besides those small lanceolate ones 

 under the divisions of the tendrils, noticed by my friend in his des- 

 cription, there is a subulate process issuing from the bifurcation 

 itself. — M. Leschenault has not seen the flowers, nor has he suc- 

 ceeded in obtaining any information respecting the use of the plant. 

 — JST. W. 



SERISSA. Juss. 



Corol one-petalled, funnel-shaped ; throat ciliate ; segments of the 

 border sub-trilobate. Berry inferior, two-seeded. 



1. S.fcctida, JVilld.sp. i. 1061. 

 JDyiodajasciculata, Loureiro cachinch. 181. 



