Deeringia. fentandria monogynia. 511 



6. C polysperma, R. 



Annual. Leaves oblong, smooth. Spikes axillary. Nectary 

 with onj five antheriferoiis divisions. Style three-cleft. Capsules 

 bacciiorm, evalvular, many-seeddd. 



A native of the Moluccas. It is an erect, smooth annual, with 

 long, delicately thin leaves. 



DEERINGIA, Brown, prodr. nov. hull. i. 413. 



Calyx five-leaved. Corol none. Filaments having their base unit- 

 ed into a Utile cup. Germ one-celled, many- seeded, attachment 

 inferior. Berry one-eel. ed. Seeds a lew, attached by their proper 

 cords to the bottom of the cell. 



1. D. celosioides, Brown, he. cit. 



Perennial, scandent. Leaves alternate, cordate. Spikes tetm> 

 nal, panicled. Styles three. Berries three-seeded. 



Celosia baccata, Koen. in Retz. obs 5- 23. 



Blittim fructescens, Rumph. amb. v. 235. t. S3. /. 2. 



Beng. Gola Mohwnee. 



Hind. LutmHn. 



Found near Calcutta, flowering in the rains. 



Root nearly spindle-formed, large, perennial. — Stems and branches 

 one, two, or more fathoms long; perennial, climbing, striated, other- 

 wise smooth. — Leaves alternate, petioled, cctdate, acute, entire. — . 

 Spikes panicled, terminal, and from the exterior axills long, ascend- 

 in '. — Flowers numerous, distinct. — Calycle three-leaved, bracliform. 

 — Filaments hve, from the nectary; anthers two-lobed. — Styles 

 three. 



In January I found a very large plant of this climbing over a small 

 tree, of about sixteen or eighteen feet high, with few leaves, but in- 

 numerable, beautiful, pendulous racemes loaded with small, smooth, 

 blight red berries, each contained when perfect, three small, black, 

 flattened, roundish, kidney- shaped seeds in one distinct cavity of the 

 berry. 



