JLeea. 'pentandria monogynia. 467 



2. L. crispa, Willd. spec. i. 1 177. 



Herbaceous, stem and brandies fringed at the angles. Leaves 

 pinnate ; leaflets oblong, seriate. Anthers free. 



Kalugu, Rheed. mat. ii. 43. t. 26. 



Beti'2- Bun-chelta. 



Grows wild among bushes near Calcutta; flowering time the rainy 

 season ; and though the flowers are not conspicuous yet the uncom- 

 monly elegant curled wings give to the whole plant a great degree of 

 beauty. 



Root perennial.. — Stems several, herbaceous, somewhat woody," 

 from four to five feet high, jointed, swelled above the joints, tha 

 young shoots cbiefly are ornamented with from six to eight, thin, 

 short, much curled wings. — Leaves alternate, petioled, generally 

 quinate-pinnate, though in luxuriant plants the lower pair is some- 

 times compound. — Leaflets petioled, ovate-oblong, pointed, deeply 

 and acutely seriate ; veins numerous, simple, parallel, large, running 

 off at an angle of about forty-five degrees, corresponding in number 

 with the serratures of the margin, and ending in their points, as in 

 Dillenia speciosa. — Petioles four- or five-winged; wings curled, &c 

 as on the branches. — Stipules falcate, not ciliate. — Cymes terminal, 

 small, a little hairy, five-flowered. — Bractes minute, hairv, margins? 

 running down the next peduncle or pedicel immediitely below, form- 

 ing a deep groove thereon, with high winged margins. — Calyx ab- 

 solutely five-toothed, permanent. — Carol as in the last species. Nec- 

 tary also as in the last. — Anthers lodged within the mouth of the nec- 

 tary, but not adhering to one another. — Germ conical, six-celled, with 

 one ovulum in each, attached to the base of the axis. Style five-groov- 

 ed. — Berry round, size of a small cherry, when ripe smooth, b.ack, 

 and succuient, six-celled. — Seeds one in each cell, all of which very 

 frequently come to perfection, obliquelv-obovate, inserted near the 

 inner and lower angle to the lower part of a soft, cential receptacle. 

 Integument single, hard, and pretty smooth ; a very thin membrane 

 seems to cover and :id!;cre to the perisperm. — Perispertn conlorm to 

 the seed, deeply imer&ected with brown, clammy fissures.— Embryo 



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