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nal : style 3-fid: stigmata simple. Capsule 3-winged: seeds 
ovate. 
III. Paullinia. 
Calycine sepals 5, subunequal. Petals 4, interiorly 
appendiculated, with a vacant space for a fifth which 
is awanting. Stamens 8, subunequal. Capsule leath- 
ery, 3-celled, 3-valved. Seeds half covered with a 
membranaceous aril I us . — De Cand. 
Climbing shrubs, with compound leaves. Named, by Lin- 
naeus in honour of Simon Paulli, Professor of Botany at Copen- 
hagen, author of Botanicum Quadripartitum, 1640; and Flora 
Danica, 1648. 
1. Paullinia Jamaicensis. Common Supple-jack. 
Capsule pear-shaped, valves subacute, leaves biter- 
nate, leaves ovate crenato-serrated towards the apex 
wedge-shaped towards the base, subglabrous, inter- 
mediate petiole marginate. 
P. sarmentosa, Browne, 212. 
HAB. Limestone districts. 
FL. October. 
A shrub, climbing, a few feet in height : branches long, un- 
armed, towards their extremities anguloso-sulcated and minutely 
puberulous or subglabrous. Leaves biternate : leaflets unequal, 
ovate or oblong, apiculated, coarsely and sparingly crenato-ser- 
rated towards the apex, entire and wedge-shaped towards the 
base, nerved, glabrous except the axils of the nerves beneath, 
membranaceous: common petiole terete: intermediate petiolule 
distinctly margined; lateral ones partially. Racemes terminal, 
compound: branches simple, but sending off, near the base, a 
simple tendril : flowers small, white, in clusters, pedicelled, 
polygamous. Calycine sepals subunequal. Capsule stipitate, 
pear-shaped, 3-celled, 3-lobed, when ripe of a red colour : valves 
obovate, subacute. Seeds solitary, size of a pea, semiglobose, 
black, half covered with a white arillus of a meally texture : 
cotyledons curved and folded round the embryo ; radicle turned 
towards the base of the seed. 
The branches of this species, from their roughness and flexi- 
bility, are commonly employed as riding switches. Quantities 
of them are .annually sent to Europe. The bark is usually re- 
moved, and to prevent their becoming brittle, it is recommended 
to rub them with oil. The seeds possess the property of in- 
toxicating fish. It is said, that those of some species of Serjania 
