VASX.3I SHUN 



SCHISANDRA COCCINEA. 



SCARLET SCHISANDRA. 



Monoicia Pentandria, Linn. Menisperma, Juss. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calix 9-leaved ; leaves arranged in three series. Corolla none. Anthers sub-sessile, coher- 

 ing at their points. Berries one-seeded, inserted upon an elongated, filiform recepta- 

 cle. Michaux. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Smooth. Leaves petiolate, sub-car neous, lanceolate-oval, acute at apex and base, mar- 

 gin undulate, very rarely cut into sub-dentiform angles. B. 



A scandent twining shrub, attaining a height of ten feet and up- 

 wards. Leaves very numerous, somewhat fleshy, of various sizes, 

 but much larger and more ovate on the lower part of the plant than 

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