32 II. DiLLENiACE^. (Hook, f & Thoms.) [Tetracera. 



Eastern Bengal and Eastern PexMNSTjla, from Cliittagong to Sincapore.— Distrib. 



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Leaves 2— i in., oblong, serratures remote. Sepals broadly oval. 



3. T. ZSuryandra, YaM Synth, iii. 71 ; young brandies tomentose, 

 leaves rigid, shining above, pubescent beneath, panicle few-flowered, sepals 

 pubescent outside and densely ciliate, follicles 2-3-seeded. DC. Prodr. i. 68 ; 

 Roxh. FL Ind. ii. 646 ; //./. d: T. Fl hid. 63. T. lucida, Wall Cat. 6631. 



Eastern Peninsula ; Malacca and Sincapore. — Distrib. Moluccas and New Caledonia. 



Brandies angular. Leaves 2-5 in., elliptic-oblong and obtuse, or oblong lanceolate 

 and mucronate^ entire or subdentate at the tip ; petiole short. Panicle terminal, leafy, 

 many-flowered. Sejpals ovate-oblong. . 



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4. T. macrophylla, Wall. Cat. 6628 (by error macrocarjoa) ; young 

 branches pubescent, leaves rigid scabrid on both surfaces, panicle decom- 

 pound many*flowered, sepals puberulous outside, follicles 1-seeded. B.f* 

 & T. Fl. hid. 63. 



Eastern Peninsula, Malacca and Sincapore. 



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3. ACKOTXtSMA, Jack. 



Stemless perennial herbs, with horizontal woody rootstocks. Leaved 

 large, gland-dotted, entire toothed or pinnatipartite, with sheathing deci- 

 duous stipules. Scape usually short, axillary, clothed with membranous 

 imbricated scales. Flowevb in short racemes, yellow. Sejxils 5. Petals 5.^ 

 Stamens 15-50, in 3 bundles which alternate with the carpels ; filaments 

 filiform • anthers erect, cells dehiscing from the middle to the tip. CarpeU 

 3, slightly cohering in the axis ; styles subulate, recurved ; ovules 2 or more. 

 Fruit of 3 follicles, bursting irregularly. Seed with a membranous aril, 

 testa crustaceous pitted. — Distrib. Species about 8, all Indian. 



A remarkable gemis of very variable species. The descriptions apply to adult foliage 

 only, all have the young leaves silky. 



* Carpels 1-2-seeded. ; 



1. A. cofitatum, Jack, in Mai. Misc. ex Hook. Bot. Misc. ii. 82 ; leaves 

 obovate base sagittate toothed, flowers 8-10 in lax racemes, stamens 15. 

 Wall. Cat. 1117 A. ; H.f. d: T. Fl Ind. 65. A. Wightianum, TT. & i. 

 Prodr. 6 ; Wight III t. 9. 



Eastern Peninsula, from Moulmein to Sincapore. 



Letvp.s 3-6 by li-2J in., rough with stiff hairs, toothed and densely ciliate, veins 

 heneath pale and hairy, petiole short. Scape shorter than the leaves, setose; pedicels 

 much longer than the linear tracts. Ovules collateral, ascending. — In the Flora Indica 

 Travancore is given as a habitat for this species on the faith of a single ppecimen in 

 theWightian Herbarinm fastened in the same sheet A, Arnottlanum, and collected 

 by Kcenig, who though he formei most of his collections in the Madras Peninsula, also 

 visited the Straits of Malacca. 



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Carpels many-seeded. 



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Amottianum, Wight III, 9, t. 3 ; leaves ohovate-oblon^ obtuse 



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