5lS tENTANDRIA monogynia. Hedera. 



of mount Sheopore. I have had it likewise from Kumaoon and 

 Shreenttgwr. It blossoms and produces fruit in succession fiom May 

 to December. 



.Newar. Saogooke or Gouke (the climber.) 



Stem round, a lilile rlalened on cue side, \ery branchy, of various 

 thickness, geneially of the size of a man's vuist, though sointt.mes 

 still larger. J have brought specimens with me for the Museum at die 

 India House, measuring nine inches in circumference. Bark scabrous, 

 ash-coloured, wood ot a light grey, or yellowish colour, soft and 

 light. 'I he stem and Lrautl.es j toduce a vast number ot iibious, 

 long radii les by which they attach themselves and adhere tiimly to 

 tiunks aid branches of trtes, and to rocks. Sometimes they aie per- 

 fectly c :>..(< eaied within and a> it wue bearded vmiIi these radicles. 

 Young . ; hoots long and slender, ash-coloured, shining, perfectly 

 smooth, as ate a'so the leaves aud petiols. — Leaves leathery, daik- 

 green and shining above, pale underneath, from five- to seven-nerved; 

 nerves .-iib-duh t< mous, veins capillary and forming laige reticulati- 

 ons; Uiey vaiy txret dingly in size and form, and are from three to 

 five inches long. On the flower- and fruit-bearing branches they 

 aie invariably undivided, lengthening into a cuspidate acumen, more 

 or less capering and contracted towards the base which is acute, from 

 Harrow-, almost linear-lanceolate, to ovate or elliptic, sometimes 

 obovate or trapeziform with a retuse apex, often unequal at the base, 

 with even or repand margins. In all other cases they are three- 

 or five-lobed, sometimes palmate or even sub-digitate, the lobes 

 entire or repand ; that in the middle larger and more acuminate than 

 the rest; with a broarl, more or less cordate, entire base. — Petiol 

 slender, widening at the base, a little thicker immediately under the 

 leaf, which it equals or exceeds in length.— Umbels globular, many- 

 flowerec", lateral, on the younger branches, or terminal, forming oval, 

 simp'y branchy, racemose corymbs. Peduncles an inch or an inch 

 and a half long, pedicels two-thiidsof an inch long; all covered with 

 sainute stellate silvery scales.— Flowers of a pale greeu colour, 



