4L'0 XXX. MALPiGHiACEiE. (J. D. Hooljer.) [^5;?w?oi?^^ry*. 



surrounded with abroad oblong or orbicular wing. Seeds oblong, subterete ; 

 . eiiibryo straight, cotyledons equal, radicle short.— Disteib. Species about 

 15 ; all tropical Asiatic. 



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Leaves glabrous beneath j or nearly so. 



1. A. Xloxbur^hiana, A. Jiiss.in Archiv. Mus. Hist Nat m. ^l^\ 

 shoots usually glabrous, inflorescence rusty-tomentose, leaves ovate or 

 elliptic-ovate acuminate, midrib beneath glabrous or pubescent, ovary 

 hiiiry, saraara linear-oblong, nucleus not dorsally winged or l^eeleo. 

 Hiraea indica, Roxb. Ilort Beng. 90 ; FL Ind. ii. 448 ; Gov. PL ii. 160; Wail. 

 FL As. Ear. l 13. Aspidopteris oxyphylla, A. Jms. Lc 510. Hiraea o%r. 

 phylla, Wall. Cat 7264 (a more slender form). j<% 



SiKKiM Himalaya, MisHMiand Khasia Mts., alt. 1-5000 ft., Birma, Saliien nver, 

 Wallich; Western Peniksula, Carnatic, Orissa, and Cojtcan. , 



A slender climber. Leaves 3-4 in., variable in breadth, acute or rounded at tne 

 base, undersurface when verj young slightly pubescent, when old quite glabro'is 

 the centre only; petiole i-^'in., glabrous or pubescent. Panicles eumej rmj- 

 tomentose. Flowers i in. diam. Fruit variable, much narrower in the ^^"^"^^^^^ 

 than in the Bengal specimens. — I have given the Bombay habitat on the authontjr 

 Ihe Bombay Flora. 



Var. 1. Samara 2 by I in. sides nearly parallel. — Western Peninsula. ^ ^ 



Var. 2. Samara 14-2 by |-1 in. more elliptic-oblong often narroi^d either aw)ve 



or below. A. dabriuBcula, A. Jms, he. 511 ; Hiraea glabriuscula, WaU. Cat. p. ^p , 



C62G— Khasia Mts., Sikkim. . . 



.Var. 3. Leaves more rounded, samara \{ by 4-| ii^- — Assam, .1,4 Mnnns 



Jussieu describes the ovary of Var. 2 as glabrous, but it is clothed vvith aeciaucu^ 



hairs, as m all the vars. Wallich^s Assam specimen under this name is reterao 



A. nutans. 



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2. A. Gonoava, A. Juss. in Archiv. M21S. Hist Nat iii. 509 ; slioote 

 glabrous, leaves ovate obtuse or obtusely-acuminate quite glabrous, o 

 rusty-tomentose, samaras orbicular very membranous ^^^"?K*ff p; j} 

 concave, nucleus winged in the concavity. Hirsea concava, Walt -t'^y j 

 Jiar. I 13; Cat 1061. H. Merguensis, Wight lU. i 139. 



pucauon 01 lue leaves uescnbea by Jussieu, who suspeciea luat iixi^ --- ^^ 

 elllptica; but that is described as having much larger samaras, with a aors 



6-7 lines long. 



3. A. oanarensis, Dah. in Hook Kew Journ. Bot 111. 37 j ^^ ^^^ 

 almost throughout, shoots stout woody, leaves ovate or ^^^^P^^? 1^^ ovary 

 obtusely acuminate, inflorescence reduced to axillary ^^91^^^^'^^^ 





glabrate, samara suborbicular very membranous, nucleus with a 

 wing. A. glomerata, Wight Ic. t 1986. ^^ 



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Western Peninsula: Canara, i)afeeZZ; Malabar and Mysoee, WigM-, pa elKptfc' 



Branchlets flexuous, hard, v^ith furrowed bark. Leaves 3-4 in., s^^^^jj?? gignder, 



obovate, base acute or rounded, rather coriaceous, pale ; petiole J in. / "^ j '^^ divide*'* 



^ in., glabrous, bracteolate towards the base, crowded on very sbort, ^^^^p, ^^^g | in- 



Subescent axillary ptduixles that are dotted with minute bracts. -^^^ jg. 



iani/ Samaras I4-I4 in. diam., margin even or lobed iowaf3s the apex. ^ 

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