MEDEOLA, CLIMBING AFRICAN ASPARAGUS, in botany: A genus of the hexandria order, belonging to the trigynia class of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 11th order, Sarmentaceæ. There is no calyx; the corolla is sexpartite and revolute; the berry trispermous. Its characters are these: The flower has no empalement; it has six oblong oval petals, and six awl-shaped stamens terminated by incumbent summits; and three horned germina terminating the style; the germina afterward turn to a roundish trifid berry with three cells, each containing one heart-shaped seed. There are two species.