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PENTANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
wmbellata. 
Climbing Cdastrus. Wax Work. 
A climbing plant frequently reaching the tops of trees, twen- 
ty or tliirty feet high. Flowers yellowish white, small. Ber- 
ries a bright orange -red. Said to possess medicinal virtues. In 
hedges and among small trees and shrubs on rocky ground. 
Frequent near Mendenhall’s tavern on the east bank of the 
Schuylkill, not far from the falls along the fences ; and in the 
stony and hilly copices back of Powelton, abundant. }i . May, 
June. 
121. COMANDRA. Nuttall, Gep. Am. Pi. vol. 1, p. 157. 
{Santalacece, R. Brown.) 
Calix angular, tubular-campanulate, coales- 
cing with an internal 5- toothed, glandu- 
lous disk. Petals 5, ovate, ingrafted upon 
the margin of the calix, persistent. Anthers 
attached to the petals by a tuft of filaments ! 
Germ 3-seeded, immersed in the glandu- 
lous disk. Capsule valveless, 1 -seeded, 
coated by the base of the calix. 
Perennial, root ligneous, stem herbaceous; leaves simple, 
alternate, stipules none; radical gemmaceous scales numerous, 
persistent; flowers in a corymbulose terminal panicle. — JVutt. 
1, C. stem round and erect, sending out 2 or 3 
infertile branches below tlie panicle. Leaves 
approximating, erect, oblong-ovate, obtuse, 
smooth, reflected on the margin, and reticu- 
hftely veined. Panicle short, ramuli axillary, 
corymbulose, corymbs about 5-flowered, with 4 
involucrate bractes, uppermost peduncles fewer 
flowered. Calix uniting with the glandulous 
and nectariferous germinal disk : disk 5-tooth- 
ed, obtuse. Petals 5, calycine, often 4 and 6, 
with the same number of stamina, ovate, acute, 
persistent, growing to the margin of the calix, 
white, internally villous (seen through a lens), 
before expansion parallel. Stamina seated at 
the base of the petals, alternating with the den- 
tures of the glandulous disk ; filaments subulate. 
