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globular umbellets of small white flowers : bracts ferruginous : petale- 
lanceolate, spreading: stigma 2-toothed. 
Chittagong, in moist valleys between the hills, flowering in Sep- 
tember. 
GENUS IL HEDERA. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From the Celtic word Hedra, signifying a cori. 
. Gen. Car, Climbing or erect shrubs or trees: leaves simple 
or compound: flowers umbelled or capitate or panicled: calyx ele- 
vated or toothed; petals 5-10, distinct or cohering at the apex and 
falling off like a lid: stamens 5-10: styles as many as the petals, 
converging or combined into one, or wanting: berry fleshy, with as 
many cells as there are styles. 
(1) H. tarivorra. (W. § A.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 376, 
Sprzc. Cuan. Leaves pinnately 3-feliolate: leaflets roundish, 
retuse, minutely and distantly serrated ; the terminal petiole nearly 
twice as long as the others: panicle long and slender, consisting of 
a few distant fascicles of peduncles bracteated at their base: rachis 
compressed: calyx 5-toothed : corolla shaped like a calyptra: styles 
4; flowers 3-5 together, umbelled. 
Neilgherries. 
(2) H. rrtroniata. (W.§ A.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 377. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 307. 
Sprc. Cuan. An unarmed shrub: leaves pinnately trifoliolate: 
leaflets ovate, with a narrow acumination, equal and slightly acute 
at the base, somewhat closely bristle-serrated: terminal petiole 
4—5 times longer than the others: panicle corymbiform, bracteated : 
flowers numerous in each umbel: corolla calyptriform, ovoid : styles 
united into one: berry 5-celled, 
Dindigul hills. 
(3) H. Lescuenautti. (W. g& A.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 377. 
Spec. Cuar. Shrub: leaves pinnated; leaflets 2 pair with an 
-odd one, ovate, with a narrow acumination, retuse or slightly cordate 
at the base, lower pair and terminal one equal at the base, the upper 
“pair unequal, all somewhat closely bristle-serrated : terminal petiole 
