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• 4 B. elliptlca, Mast. ; shrubby, unarmed, leaves pilose on botli sur- 

 laces especially along the nerves elliptic- oblong shortly acuminate. 



,, Malacca, Mainaay. 



GA climbing shrub. Stem terete, downy. Leaves 5-6 by 3 in., base 5-nerved, rounded ; 

 llT lu^'i ^^ ^®®' -P^^w^^-^ axillary, shorter than the petiole; pedicels J- J in., nm- 

 Mate, thinly stellate-hairy. Flowers i in. diam. Petals shorter than the lanceolate 

 sepals, -FVwi^ not seen. 



?ft»f' 1 ' ^^*^*^^ta, Mast. ; shrubby, unarmed, leaves glabrescent elliptic- 

 lanceolate acuminate, capsule covered with hooked gland-tipped barbed 



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* MALACCA, Maingay. 



thin h"'^'^*!^^"^' scarred. Leaves 8-lQhj Z\n., conaceous, glabrous or with a few 

 2Uq' \- ?°^ *^^® midrib on the under surface, base rounded, 3 nerved ; petioles 

 Canf'A^^^^ ^' ^^^^ e^^s. Frmting-peduncUs half the length of the leavea. 

 "pwie depressed, 3-celled, spheroidal, the size of a hazel nut, 



surf ^' ^'^^'^ff^ylf Mast ; shrubby, unarmed, leaves glabrous on both 

 uriaces lanceolate acuminate, capsule globose obscurely 5-lobed studded 

 ^th short subulate prickles. ' ' ^ 



MALAcex, Griffith^ Maingay. 

 2 in tl/ u ^ ®^^^- Leaves 10 by 3 in., coriaceous, base rounded, 5-nerved ; petiole 

 bearl' ^^*^^°^^ a* l>oth ends. Feduncles barely 1 in., spreading at right angles, and 

 shnrtP +r ^^^^^ of flowers; pedicels J in. Sepals J m., ovate-lanceolate. PttaU 

 «btn^^ laA ^^^ sepals, with a long linear appendage. Staminodes erect, oblong, 



'CaDW/> 11 - "^'^^ *® '^^S *^ *^® ovary. Fruiting peduncle as long as the petiole. 



• -r'^"*^ 1^ in^ diam. 



lobed.^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ orbicular, or not much longer than broad, usually 



Wali^n f^P^ra, Colehroohe in Roxh. Fl Ind. {ed. Carey) ii. 383 and in 

 ahnrfl ^^^"^ > ^ *^e^> unarmed, leaves glabrescent suborbicular or oblong 



caS ^^?^V^^*^ ^ase cordate, capsule glabrous globose covered with stout 

 rJ!?/ PI]''^^^^- B. grandifolia, i;a -^rcjrfn i. 486. B. nepalensis, Turn. * 

 V"^- .J/osc. 1858, 207. * 





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DisTRiB. China. 



•-rM«w ^1""^* 4 bj 2i in. and upwards, base 7-nerTCd ; petio e 2 m. and nnwards. 

 ioiS^ • P"^««cent, as long as the petioles ; pedicels umbellate, ultimate pedicels i in., 

 ^«»ted in the middle. Flower-bids ovoid. Flowers minute, down/, campanulate. 



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l^^^Wallich; SiLLET, Z)a ^y/Zra, Sikkim and the Khasia Mrs., ascending to 



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 scent, 



'^«i' ddtdd. Caj^sule 1 4 in. 



27?' . *V *^damanenais, Kurzin Joum. As. Soc. 1871, \l 4^7 : Flora, 1871, 



boL'al k ^y* unarmed, leaves glabrescent palmately lobed, capsule glo- 

 • jT S^^^r«U3 covered with short subulate spines. . 



•^^JDAMAN IsLDs., ^ur^; Tenasserim, at MarUban, Brandh; and Moulmein, 



cenV'r^/"^ l^*""^- '*«'™ terete. Zeawe^ 4-5 by 4 in., thinly stelkte-hairv, gla W 



Cln '' ^"'^'^^ 3-5-lobed, lobes acute or acuminate, rregularly ^^3 coarsely 



%Cl ^^«.f7.nerved, deeply cordate, lobes rounded ; petio e 2-4 in. *'lP«f > '°-i 



■»cK!' ^^^'^^on,. C2,«e. 2-3-chotomou8. Peduncles slender. Capsule the size of 



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^ B. puosa, i?o^; ^ 7^. i 618 ; shrubby, unarmed, leaves pijose on 

 JiS S.ft\« suborbicular palmately lobed, capsule ^obose downy, sudded 

 llS S^*« barbed prickles. fTaU. Or^ 1145,,v^,vehitiaa, JM (7a<. 



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