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Var. 1. WaJUcliii; more slenrler, leaflets smaller narrower more membranous, 

 flowers fewer larger, buds tomentose. — W. Himalaya, Xepal, Bhotan. 



Var 2. SUdimemiH ; leaflets larger, coriacoous, flowers very numerous, smallor, 

 buJs glabrous except the margins of the sepals. — Sikkim, alt. 5-7000 ft., ff.J- & T. 

 Mishmi and Naga hills, Grijjith. 



18. C. connataf DC. Prodr. i. 4 ; glabrous, leaves pinnate, sepals not 

 ribbed, filaments tapering to a point. Wall Cat 4679 ; U-f. A: T. FL Ind. 

 11. C. venosa, Eoyle III. 51 ; C. amplexicaulis, velutina, and gracilis, Edgew. 

 tn Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 24. 



Tempkrate Himalaya, from Hazara to Sikkim, alt. 4-10,000 ft. 



A large woody climber, young parts with scattered hairs. Leaflets 3-7, distant, 

 2-4 in., broadly ovate-cordate, coarsely serrate or Bub-3-lobed. Plowers in many- 

 flowered panicles. SepaU oblong, subacute, pubescent outside, densely tomentobC 

 inside. F.lanunfs narrow-linear below, hairy; anthers short. Achenes silky-pubes- 

 cent. — Closely allied to C. BiLchananiinaj but smoother, smaller flowered, and leaflets 

 narrower; petioles often connate into a coriaceous or woody flat expansion. 



19. C. Bucbananiana, DC. Sf/st i. 140 ; lioary or coarsely hairy, leaves 



simply I'innate, sepals ribbed, filaments linear. 



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Throughout the TtiMrEUATE HiMAi*AYA^alt. 5-10,000 ft, Mishmi, Griffith. 



A large woody cHmber. LeajleU b-l^ 2-3 in., broadly ovate or suborbicular-cor- 

 date, obtuse or acute, coarsely serrate or 3-5 lobe d. Flowers 2-3 in. diam., in branched 

 uiany-floweied panicles, often sweet-scented. Sepals liuear-oblong,* many-ribbed, 

 tomenloso on both surfaces. Filaments densely hairy ; anthers elongate. Achenes 

 densely hairy. — Very variable, roughly divis^'ble as follows: — 



Var. 1. rugosa; stem toiueutose, leaves rugose and reticulate white and hoary espe- 

 cially beneath. C. Buchnnaniana, Wall. Cat. 4G77. 



Var. 2. vitifolia (sp. Wall. CW.4676); stem pubescent, leaves membranous slightly 

 pubescent. 



Var. 3. ii^rtnosa (sp. Wall. Cat. 4675); stem with long soft fibrous hairs, leaves 

 glabrous or veins only si.ky, 



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simply pinnate, filaments filiform above, 



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LowKR Temperate and Subtropical Himalaya, alt. 3-5000 ft., from Kumaon to 

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A large woody climber. Leaflets 3-5, 3-4 in., broadly ovate-cordate, more or less 

 fierrate, usually deeply^ 5-lobed. Fanides many-flowered. Sepals IJ in., oblong, 

 densely tomentose outside, pubescent inside. Filaments 1 in., narrow-linear below, 

 covered with soft spreading hairs ; anthers very long, narrow, twisted after flowering. 



DounTFUL Species. 



C. LOASAiFOLiA, DC. Syst. i. 140j flowerless, doubtless either C. grewiceflora or 

 Wight u ma. 



(J. LOASiFOLiA, Don Ptodr. 191. Probably C. Puchananlana. 

 C. bcabu>h.*:folia, DC. JSyst. i. 154. India? Herb. Mus. Paris 

 0. V1LL08A, DC. Syst. I 154. India? Herb. Mus. Paris. 

 C. coMosA, DC. Syst. i. 156. India? Herb. Mus Paris. " 



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