422 XXX. MALPiGHiACEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Aspidopterys. 



Westprn Tropical Himalaya; Garwhal and Kumaon, ascending to 4500 ft., 



Govarij &c. -, r " iw 



'•■ A* tall climber; branches white. Leai^es 4-7 in., base rounded, undersurtace usuaii^ 

 Hnow- white and silky, upper glabrous; petiole rarely 4 in. Panicle sometimes a toot 

 long, white, lax, verv graceful Flowers i in. diam. ; pedicels rather stout, bracteoies 

 tfiost minute. Samaras 1 ^-l^ bv 1-1 1 in., variable in shape, sometimes narrowed ai 

 one end or emarginate.— It is not clear to what plant Wallich meant the name 

 lannginoaa to apply ; he has in his Herbarium two under that name, and both niim- 

 bered 1058; of these, one from Go van, gathered, no doubt, in Krnnaon, is identical 

 with his own (not Roxburgh's) Hircea nutans; the other, from Nipal, has a rustv o^ 

 mentose panicle, and is probably the true nutans of Roxburgh ; indeed he tickets i 

 mss. '^proxnutanti, Boxh.'' As Wallich's and Jussieu's lanuginosa is certamiy noi 

 the very local and beautiful species here described, I have dedicated the la e 



to Dr. Wallich. 



DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



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Imperfect specimen in young fruit of a plant from Poneshee in Birma, collecte J 

 Dr. J. Anderson. Leaves orbicular, coriaceous, densely rusty tomentose benea . 

 Unripe samaras oblong, with a dorsally winged nucleus. — Perhaps AAomcntosa^ us ., 

 Java. 



A TenaFserim or Andaman Island plant of Heifer, with orbicular leaves p^jS'}*^^ ^^Jj 

 date at the base, glabrous on both surfaces, except the costa beneath, which with the s ^^^ 

 letioles shoots and inflorescence are clotlied with dense rusty toinentuni. Samaras rae 

 ranous, orbicular, not concave, refuse at the top, nucleus with a prominent dorsal wiig- 

 -Perhaps a form of J., concava, Juss. 



IIiR.^ FiNLAYsoNiANA, Wall. Cat. 7263, is a species of Neliiris. 



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OiiDER XXXL ZYGOPHYLLE^. (By M. P, Edgeworth, F.L.S- 



and J. D. Hooker.) 



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Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees, branches usually articulate. Leam OPP^^J. 

 or alternate by supjjression, stipulate, 2-3-foliolate or pinnate; leaflets enu . 

 Dot punctate ; stipules twin, persistent, sometimes spiny. Peduncles "^J^J ' 

 1-2 in the axils of the .stipules^ ebracteate rarely 2-bracteate. ^^'^^S -lL^ 

 mapbrodite, regular or irregular, white, red or yellow, very rarely d ■ 



^epah 5, rarely 4, free or rarely connate at the base, imbnciite, rare'y . 

 vate. Petals 5-4, very rarely 0, hypogynous, tree, imbricate or ct'^w, ' j/ 

 rarely valvata Disk convex or depressed, rarely annular or 0, without S^^^ 

 Stamens equal to or double or rarely three times as many as the pei » 

 inserted at the base of the disk, often alternately longer, those t)}!P^3'l ^ 

 the petals often connate at the base to the petals, filaments "SuaUy wu 

 scale at the base or middle; anthers versatile, opening i^^^f^'^^uA or 

 Omri/ sessile or rarely stipitate on a short gj-nophore, furrowed aagteu 

 winged, 4-5- (rarely 2-1 2-) celled, cells very rarely with partial "ansve 

 septa, narrowing into a terminal angled or furrowed style ; stigma siut^^^, 

 rarely discoid or stigmas 5 ; ovules 2 or more, rarely 1, usually ^^„^J 

 pendulous or ascending, raphe ventral with a superior micropyle. /^^ 

 never berried — :- — - — — — •- ^ - .^e,^^ nr united one- 



spiny cocci 



ied, coriaceous or crustaceous, either of 2-10 free or ^^^^.^^ j„ious, 

 , or capsular and septicidally dehiscent. Seeds "S^^Uy penau^^^^ ^ 



solitary, rarely twin or more, oblong or linear, the raphe a'^'^^^® >1 „rely 

 testa membranous crustaceous or tliick and mucous ; ftlbumen l^.^^^^gjons 

 ; embryo the length of the seed, green, straight or rarely curved, coxj"^ _ _ 

 biong or linear thick or foliaceous. radicle very short, straight, 



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