Naravelia
(from Narawael, the Cingalese name of the genus). ORD. Ranunculaceae. A genus comprising only two (or perhaps three) species of stove climbing plants, with woody stems, natives of Southern Asia or the Indian Archipelago. Flowers paniculate; sepals four or five, petaloid, valvate; petals numerous, linear or clavate. Leaves opposite, bifoliolate; petioles produced into tendrils. N. zeylanica, probably the only species yet introduced, is an ornamental plant, with the habit of Clematis; it thrives in a compost of sandy peat and fibry loam. Propagated by cuttings of half-ripened shoots, inserted in sand, under a hand glass, in heat. N. zeylanica (Cingalese). fl. yellow, with four or five sepals and six to twelve linear petals; panicle terminal, with trichotomous pedicels. l. opposite, stalked; leaflets two, ovate-acuminated, on very short stalks, five to seven-nerved, quite entire, or notched with one or two teeth on each side, velvety underneath, smooth above, drawn out at the apex into a trifid, twisted tendril. Ceylon, 1796.