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JBENUS I, WILLUGHBEIA. 



Peiitanilria lUoHosyiila. Seir-. Sijst'i 



Deriv. In honor oif Francis Willoughby, F. R. S.", a friend and 

 ^upil of Ray. 



Gen. Char. Climbing shrubs, often tendril-bearing, lactescent : 

 leaves opposite, entire: cymes axillary and terminal: calyx 5-^ 

 parted, or deeply 5-cleft : corolla cup-shaped, 5-cleft, tube puberu- 

 lous within, lobes oblong, convolute in aestivation : stamens towards 

 the middle of the tube of the corolla, anthers longer than the fila- 

 ment, ovate-acute : ovary free, ovoid, 1 -celled : ovules indefinite, 

 inserted on two parietal placentae : style cylindric : stigma thicken- 

 ed, ovoid, striated: berry siZe and shape of an orange, globose or 

 broadly ovoid, pulpy t Seeds numerous, nestling in puljj, shap6 of 

 a bean, seed-skin soft : albumen none : cotyledons fleshy, plario- 

 bonVex : radicles v^ty short. 



(1) W. EDULis. (Roxi.) 



tdent. Roxb. flor. Ind. II. p. 57.— Dec. prod, VIII. p. 321. 



Engrav. Roxb. Cor. III. t. 280.— Wall. PI, As. Ear. III. t. 

 i292. 



Spec. CkAR. Leaves oblong, acuminated, subacute at the base : 

 peduncles axillary and termiiial and with the pedicels shorter than 

 the leaf, 3-5-flowered : pedicels the length of the calyx : caly- 

 fcine lobes pvate, ciliated : flowers pale-rose : fruit yellow, ovoid- 

 globose. 



Chitta^ong. Silhet. Flowering in the hot season. Fruit eateii 

 by the natives. 



GENUS IE. MELGDINUS. 

 l*ent»H4i4a 9I«nosyMla. Sex: Sy'st: 



, Deriv. From Melori, ani apple, and Dindo, to turn round. The 

 fruit rfesembles an apple and the stems are twining. 



Gen. Char. Calyx 5-cleft, eglandulose, lobes ovate, two outer 

 ones : corolla cup-shaped, tube cylindric : throat with a corona, 

 segments o^ the cotona ten inl one series : lobes 5, imbricately twist- 

 'ed in aestivation : stamens inserted below, the middle bf the tube : 

 ainthers subsessile, oblorig, acute : ovary ovoid-conical, glabrous, 

 2-celled : style filiform : stigma thick-conical, latefailly 10-ribbed : 

 b'erry fleshy, globose, pUlpy within : seeds numerous, nestling, com-, 

 jiressed, with a ventral umbilicus : embryo straight in the axis a? 

 fleshy albumen : cotyledbhs oblong,- subfoliaceous. 



