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: Woody -climbers. Leaves opposite or whorled ; petiole 1-2-glandular at 

 the top ; stipules minute. Flowers j^ellow. in terminal or lateral racemes. 

 Calyx 5-partite, eglandular, or with niuiute glands. ^ Petals 5-clawe(L 

 Stamens 10, all perfect ; filaments rigid, truncate and articulate at the top; 

 anthers acute. Ovary 3-lobed; styles 1-3, slender, one or more reduced to 

 small papillae. Hipe carpels 3, each with about 3 or more wdngs, the whole 

 'forming a stellate fruit. Seed ohovoid, testa membranous ; cotyledons fleshy, 

 hooked.— DiSTKiB. About 8 species, natives of tropical Africa, Asia, and 

 Australasia. 



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1. T. australasica, 



AvstraL i 286. 



Joum. 1833, 179: 



»»£»», A. Rkh. Sert. Astrol 38, t. 15; Bentk Flor> 

 Platynema laurifolium, W. dh A. in Edin. New FhU, 



-DiSTEiB. Eastwards to New 



Eaptebs Archipelago j Sincapore, Herb. Wight, &c.- 

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Glabrous. Leaves 2-4 in., ovate or elliptic, acute, memhranous, quite entire; petioe 

 l-^or eglandular. Racemes terminal, 4-6 in. Flowers 1 in. diam. ; pedicels opposite, 

 minutely 2-bracteolate below the middle. Petals ovate- cordate, claw slender. V|/ 

 4 in. diam.; carpel-wings coriaceous, spreading and recurved, linear-oblong, yertica y 

 compressed.— Wight's specimens, stated in the Prodromus to be from Ceylon, we . 

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opposite, quite entire, coriaceou^ 

 marginal dands beneath ; stipules 



Climbing or suberect shrubs. Leaves 

 eglandular, or with a row of remote intra 



0. Racemes terntiinal or axillary, simpl ^ ^ , ^ , ^ 



bracteate, articulate with the 2-bracteolate pedicels. Floivers white, Ira- 

 grant, the 6th petal discoloured. Calyx 5-partite; glands large, adnaie 

 to the pedicel. Petals 5, clawed, unequal, silky. Stamens 10, decimate, an 

 fertile, one much the largest, filaments connate at the base. Ovary 3-loDea^ 

 lobes appendiculate ; styles 1-2 circinate, the others rudiii 



1 or 2. Fruit of 1-3. 2-3-winffftd ftamaras. Seed subsrlol 



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Asiatic, 



K K. Madablota, Gcertn. Fruct.ii.im.i. 116; branches stout, leaves 

 4-6 in. oblong or ovate-lanceolate acuminate or cordate-acuminate, racem ^ 



36^. Bamsteria bengalensis, Linn. B. unicapsularis, Lamk. B. tetrapter^ 

 Sonnerat Voy. li. t 13Q.—Rfiefd€ Hart MaL vi. t. 69, 



Throughout the hotter parts of India, from Jamu and SiNDH to BiRMA, ^XhX^\ 

 and Ceylon.— DisTRiB. China, Java. • '. " wit 



A tall chmber, glabrous except the young parts and infloref=cence, which *^ J^j^ 

 or appressed-tomentose. Leaves 3-6 in., coriaceous, petioled. shining above, ^^^t, 



l-r6 in., axillaiy, usually forming a leafy panicle. 

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