1096 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Carolina, on the river sides. . Height 3 ft. to 5 ft. 
Introduced in 1820, or before. Flowers greenish 
white; August. 
& 8. S. macuta‘ra Roxb. The spotted-leaved Smilax. 
Identification. Roxb. ; Royle Ill., p. 384. 
Engravings. Royle Ill., t. 94., fig. 1. ; our fig. 2048. 
Spec. Char., §c. Stem angular, prickly. Leaves cordate, 
somewhat hastately lanceolate, coriaceous, the under 
sides of the nerves and petioles prickly. (G. Don.) A 
climbing evergreen shrub. Nepal, 1819. Height 5 ft. 
to 10ft. Flowers whitish; August. 
2048S. maculata. 
§ il. Stems prickly, round. 
a 9. S. Carna L. The Chinese Smilax. 
Identification. Lin. Sp. Pl., 1459. ; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., 5. p. 388. . 
Synonymes. China radix Bauk. Pin. 896.; Smilax Aspera minor Plum. Ic. 183.; Sankira, vulga 
Quaquara, &c., Kempfer Ameen. Ex. p.781.; Cena gentila, Ital. 
Engravings. Blackw., t.423.; Kempf. Amen., t. 782.; Pluk. Amal., t. 408. f. 1.; and our fig. 
2049. 
Spec. Char, §e. Stem round, with a few spines ; 
leaves roundish-ovate, with acute points, 5-nerved. 
(Willd.) An evergreen climbing shrub. China 
and Japan. Height 20 ft. Introduced in 1759. 
Flowers greenish white ; August. Berries red. 
The root is very large, fleshy, and reddish: it is 
used for food, in some parts of China, instead of 
rice; and is considered extremely nourishing. Brown 
found it in abundance in Jamaica, where the roots 
are used to feed hogs. When first brought to Eng- 
land, it was cultivated in the stove: it was afterwards Suiee 6 Ghiaa 
transferred to the green-house ; and 
it has since been found hardy. 
a 10. S.rotunpiroua L. The round-leaved Smilax. 
Taentification. Lin. Sp., 1460.; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept , 2. p. 250. 
Engraving. Our fig. 2050. 
Spec. Char., $c. Stem round, somewhat prickly. Leaves 
roundish-ovate or cordate, very smooth, 5-nerved. Ber- 
ries spherical. (Wil/d.) A climbing evergreen shrub. 
< North America, from Canada to Carolina. Height 6 ft. 
2050. 9, rotundifolia. Introduced in 1760. 
& 11. S. Lauriro'itia ZL. The Laurel-leaved Smilax. 
Identification. Lin. Sp. Pl., 1460.3 Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., }. p. 250. 
my nonaymes: S. altera, &c., Plum. Ic. ; S. la‘vis, &c., Catesb. Cur. 1. 
Bugrantigs: Cat. Car., 1. t. 15.3; Plum. Ic.; and our jig. 2051. 
Spee. Char., §c. Stems round; main stem prickly. 
Branches unarmed. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, 3- 
nerved. Umbels on very short peduncles. ( Willd.) 
A very handsome evergreen climbing shrub. | North 
America, in sandy boggy woods, from New Jersey 
to Georgia. Heizht 10 ft. to 12 ft. Introduced in 
1739. Flowers greenish white ; August. Berries 
black ; ripe in September and October. 
4 12. S. ramnorpes L, The Black-Bryony-like 
Smilax. 
ddentification. Lin. Sp. Pl., 1460.; Pursh Fl. Amer, Sept., 1. p. 251. 2051. S. laurifolia 
