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.^ From Assam and the Khasia hills eastwards; and throughout the Western and 

 Easterx Peninsula and Ceylon. — Distrib. Java, &c. 



Branches grooved, sparsely clothed with reflexed hairs or glahrate. Leaves 3-6 by 

 2-4 in., thin, coriaceous, acute or obtuse, subrepand, ciliate, above glabrous or sparsely 

 pHose, usually pubescent beneath; petiole 1-2^ in. .Panicles equalling or exceeding 

 the leaves; males sometimes 1ft.; fern, much shorter; bracts oblong or subulate; 

 J^eflou:er8 hispid or glabrous. Cali/x much exceeding the corolla. Drupe pilose. — 

 The sjnonymy of this species is much confused with that of C. Burmanni, and owing 

 10 some of the authentic specimens being flowerless these may require revision. 



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Characters of Cyclea, but male flowers apetalous and female wdth 2 



opposite fleshy saccate sepals. 



Ill ]?■ **<5ristatum, Griff. Not PI Asiat. part iv. 313. t. 491 ; It Notes. 

 i f!j^' ^^*^' ^^^ ^^^ ^^- ^^^ 5 leaves broadly cordate acuminate 7-9- 

 fnK /V Peraphora robusta, Miers Contrib. iii. 245, t. 122. Cyclea populi- 

 ^^^IfJ.dhT. Ft Ind. 202. 



Eastern Himalaya, in Sikkim and Bhotan, Griffith, &c.; Khasia hills, ff.f. & T. 

 coHi 1^^' ^^^^ ^'^i^e; branchlets pubescent. Leaves 4-6 by 3-6 in., firm, 



in ^,.^?'^j».^'^hrou8 above, pilose with rigid hairs and reticulate beneath; petiole 2-4 

 deled t"^' Pubescent, base and tip thickened. Panicles slender, decompound, fas- 

 Z)n;r,l, i^^^*\*?®®- ^^^V'^ globose, 4 lobed. Anthers 4-5, connate into a peltate disk. 



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16. PACKITGONB, Miers. 



ouw i 1?^^^™^- ^^ow^s axillary, racemed, dioecious. SepahQ, 2-senate, 

 • ttent vi ^^^"^^ 6' miich smaller, base auricled embracing the fila- 

 didvmm V ^*' Stamens 6, filament incurved; anthers subglobose, 

 9 •<?/«•' '^,^'"s*ing transversely. Eudimentary carpels 3, minute. Fem. 

 Style .r.?'^? 6. OvaHes 3 ; styles stout, horizontal. Drupes reniform, 

 albumen rf"^^^^^^ ; endocarp reniform, rugulose. Seed horseshoe-shaped, 

 "'^P ; cotyledons i-cylindric, very thick, hard ; radicle very short. 



te-oblong or sub- 



Iiiil 203. 



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tiabe7nirl°^**i*' ^^^^'^ Contrib. iil 331, 1. 135 : leaves ovate-obl( 

 P. PluS r-^^ racemes exceeding the leaves. H. f. d: T. Fl. 

 Pelos nv^f ' ^^?cinna, adversa, and odorifera, Miers I.e. 330-334. Cissam- 

 Wl 7> /«*n ; DC. Prodr. i. 102. C. Plukenetii, DC. U. i. 97 ; 

 4959 / o '■^i''-. ^ 14; ^YigU Ic. t. 824,825. C. Wightianus, Wall. Cat. 

 ^- y.'. othcmarum, Pluk. Koon zeylaiiicus, Gcertn. Frivct. ii. 486, t. 180. 



A loffv „,?^^, P'^*^e» in the Carnatic and Ceylon.— Distrib. Java and Timor. 



?*«se retim. ' branches tomentose. Leaves \\-1 by |-li in., thick, coriaceous, ' 



^-J in wfth"'" V^"^''0"ate, base cuneate or rounded, ii-5-nerved. glabrous; petiole 

 females' swr f ^^*^ ""S ^^ ^^^irs; tin thickened. Eacemei slender, pubescent, 

 ^'^ bracts fc ^ i P^^^^ncles very short. Flowers minute, male in the axils of subu- 



.. 'emale solitary. Peto/« 2-toothed. Drupes pisiform. 







17. PYCMARRBENA, Miers. 

 ''?t>erect 



, --.u n?^^- ^lini^ing shrubs. Flowers axillary, fascicled or shortly 

 f^* 6 sSr^u^- ^^^E fl. : ^Se^^a^s 6, with 3 bracts, inner larger orbicular. 



■^"rsting tra, ' ^^®f 'S'towe^s 9, filaments very short ; anthers subdidymous, 

 6 irausversely. Fem. fl, : unknown. Druve broadly oblong, sub- 





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