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438 .Xxxli. GEBANiACEiE. (Edgewortli & Hook, f.) [Biophjtum. 



,0. Metziana, Mia. in Herb. Hohenack. 144. O. gracilenta, Kiirz in Jcnirn. 

 As. Soc. Beng. 1870, ii. 68. O. sensitiva, Wall. Cat 4343 F, H.— /i^Aee* 

 //or<. ifoZ. ix. 33, t. 19. ' =' ■ -■ -.v. 



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; Througt out tile hotter parts of India, as far to the N. W. as Garwhal ; aiid in Ceylon. 

 ' — DiSTKiB. China, Java. . . -^k 'iV 



■; Biit distingui>hed from .e. semzVivwm by the graceful habit, slender peduncles, ana 

 Bmall flowers with the capsule not much overtopped by the sepals. The seeds vary \ 

 nmoiint of furrowing and tubercles exactly as in B. sensitivum. The following three 

 Vanities are regarded as species by Mr. Edge worth : 



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' Var. 1. Eeinwardtii proper ; seeds spirally furrowed. 0. Reinwardtii, Zncc. ^^^^ff?*^; 



0. sensitiva, Xmn. -fieri, inpart; Wall. Cat. 4343 B 2. 



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Var. 2. nervioidts; seeds deeply furrowed and tubercled. i v n Iw* 



Var, 3. Metdanaj seeds turbinate 5-7 furrowed tuberculate.— To which,&honW oe 



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. Var. 4. gracilenta; seeds tubercled not furrowed. 



** Stem vsiially hranclied in a proliferous manner. Leaflets vmcMy<^^ 

 l~>idateor acuminate; the terminal ijair generally shorter than the rest .•'■- ^ 



5. B. nudum^ Am. In Nov, 'Act. Acad, Cces. xviii. 326; stem tjJl 

 simple or branched, leaflets 15-30 pairs linear-oblong obliquely abrupiij 

 cuspidate equal at the base, midrib straight, nerves close-set, V^^^^t 

 equalling or exceeding the sepals, seeds tubercled not furrowed, jywj' 

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Ceylon, Central Province, alt. 4-6000 ft. ' ' ' ' . ,".' /A 



Apparently annual. Stem 6-18 in., sometimes as stout as a goose-quill, often umD 

 lately branched. Leaves 2-3 in., rachis tomentose ; leaflets J in., glabrous, ^'^[^r- - 

 thickened, base truncate/ /^c/w/rtj/es blender, pubescent; pedicels pilose. Sepats t ;» : 

 Bcarcely exceeding, the globose capsule, -j- . ,.-,. a <- ^.> '.i:'^^U -'^'^ ,'^ 



6. B. prollferum, Am. in Nov. Act. Acad. C(r^\ xviii. 327; stem sl^^J^ 

 prostrate copiously dichotomously branched from a woody stock, leavw 

 short, leaflets very small 5-10-pairs oblong obliquely cuspidate, tuKir^ 

 nearly straight, base equal, peduncles very short usually 1-flowered, seeu^ 

 tubercled not furrowed, Wight III. i 162, ^^ ' .h : ^ ■ ; 



Ceylon, alt. 6000 ft., Walker, Gardner, &c. / . ' iahit* 



A remarkable species, ea-ily recognised by its excessively branched Prostrate n » 

 Blender branches, minute leaflets, and solitary, rarely geminate flowers. Brancnes . 

 peduncles pubescent. Leaves rnrely 1 in., in whorls; leaflets ^ in. long, ^^"^*Y,^aa 

 brous above; nerves oblique, slender. Fedtmcles nmch shorter than the leaves ana ^^.^ 

 the very slender pedicels. Sepaln hairy, about as long as the 1^^^^*^.— I ideutuv ^^^ 

 vith Arnott's plant on the faith of two specimens thus ticketed by himscU in ^ b ^^ 

 Ilerbarium, though Amott describes the umbel as 2-5-flowercd, andthe ^^^f^^^i 

 lalose above, and does not allude to the remarkable smallness of the fohage; wu ^ 

 huspect that he had both this and the following under his eye, 



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7. B. Intermedium, Wight III. 1 162 ; branches very numerous iruux^^ 

 Btout woody rootstock slender dichotomously branched, l^^J^^^ ^^^^ 

 pairs linear-oblong abruptly cuspidate, midrib somewhat arched, base eq^ ; 

 peduncles usually exceeding the leaves several-flowered. ' ^ 



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,'^, ""1^^^ >rger plant, than BproUfer^m, of a very different ha^t, ^^^J°%„g; 

 firchipg branches arising from a woody stock as thick as the finger. Lmyes i i"- ^^^^ 



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