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(I) E. GLOHiosoiDES. (Jones.) 



Ident. Jones in Eoxb. flor. Ind. II. 234. Kuntk Enum. pi. 

 V. 287. 



8yn. E. viridiflora, Smith Ex. hot. I. p. 111. E. gloriosa, 

 Pers. syn. 412. Stemona tuberosa, Lou/r. Coch. II. 402. 



Migrwv. Wight's Icon. t. 2061. Eoxb. Cor. 1. 1. 32.— Smith 1. c. 

 t. 57. Wall. pi. As. rar. III. t. 282.Bot. Mag. t. 1500. • 



Spec. Chab. Scandent: leaves scattered, ovate-oblong, slighty 

 cordate, acuminate, sub-mucronate : peduncles axillary, solitary, 

 racemosely 1 — 3-flowered : outer leaflets of the perigonium 13-, inner 

 15-nerved: flowers large, green, vhitish within. 



Silhet. Circar mountains. Chittagong. Pulicat hiUs (2,000 

 feet). Powering in August and September. 



OEDER CLVII. SMILACEiG. 



Flowers henuaplirodite or dioecious : perianth 6-very rarely 

 4j 8, or 10-leaved, regular, persistent or deciduous : leaflets 

 distinct or more or less connate : Eestivation imbricated : sta- 

 mens as many as the leaflets, perigynous or hypogynous : 

 filaments free : anthers 1 — 2-celIed, introrsely dehiscing : ovary 

 free, or half-adnate to the base of the perianth, 1— 5-celIed : 

 ovules twia, collateral or many biseriate, very seldom solitary, 

 pendulous and orthotropal : styline column terminal : stigma 

 3-cleft, 3-lobed or entire : berry 1 — 3, very rarely 2 — 4 — 5- 

 ceUed, cells 1 or more seeded : seeds nestling in pulp, usually 

 globose: testa thinly membranaceous : albumen fleshy or homy : 

 embryo straight, usually minute. — ^Perennial herbs, stemless 

 or caulescent, undershrubs or shrubs, often scandent, root- 

 ing or twining: leaves scattered, opposite or verticiUed, in 

 some reduced to scales : flpwers solitary, fascicled, umbellate, 

 racemose or panicled, axillary and terminal : pedicels very 

 often jointed. 



GEmrS. I. SMILAX. 



Dioeeia Hexandrla. Sex-. Syst: 



Deriv. Erom Smile, a scraper, the stems are rough from prickles. 



Gen. Chae. Elowers dioecious : leaflets of the perianth 6, dis- 

 tinct, unequal (outer ones broader), deciduous, very rarely connate : 



