litis. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 473 



of five, erect, emaiginate scales, issuing from the mouth of the tube 

 of '.he corol. — Filaments .five , alternate with and longer than the nee 

 taiial bodies. Anthers oblong, pointed — Pistil, pericarp, and seeds, 

 as in the iast species ; it is rather more common for the capsule to be 

 Six-seeded in this species than in the others. 



P1TIS, Schreb. gen. JV. 396. 



Calyx five-toothed. Corol five-petalled. Germ two-celled, cells 

 two-seeded, attachment inferior. Berry superior, from one- to four- 

 seeded. Embryo erect, and furnished with a perisperm. 



1 V. indica, Willd. spec. i. 1 180. 



Shrubby, scandeut. Leaves round-cordate, often more or less 

 angled, finely senate, downy underneath. Tendrils panicle-bearing. 

 Germ embraced by a five-iobed cup. Berries round, from one to 

 two-seeded. 



Schembra-valli, Rlieed- mal. vii. 11. t. 6. 



JBeng. Amdhouka. 



A native of various parts of India- Flowering time the month of 

 .April. The fruit ripens in July. 



Root peiennial. — Stem and branches long and slender, climbing 

 up and over trees, hedges, Sic. to an extent of many fathoms ; young 

 shuots villous. — Tendrils opposite to the leaves, rlorifeious, beyond 

 the rluweis bifid, — Leaves alternate, petioled, round-cordate, more or 

 less angular, finely serrate, more or less villous according to their age, 

 particularly underneath, from three to six inches each way. — Petioles 

 rather shorter than the leaves. — Panicles issuing solitarily from the 

 middle of the tendrils, peduncled, ovate, dense. — Flowers numerous, 

 and very minute, greenish purple. — Calyx small, five-toothed. Pe- 

 tals five, ovate-oblong, at first spreading, afterwards reflex, and not 

 cohering at top as in some of the species. Nectary a five-toothed, 



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