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!lf!f' ^^^^L*^® ^^^'® surface beneath. Cymes opposite the leaves pedicels short, 

 Bienaer. I' lowers minute, tomentose.— Only known frjm Kurz^s description. 



8ubc '%*^'*^**'*8^^» Planch, in herb. Kew. ; leaves oblanceolate, base tapering 



Shrubby, scandent? -BrancAe^ cylindric, grey, setose, ultimately glabrescent, with 

 miT-'l?^"^ ^^^^^" -^^*^^««5by l^in., membranous, glabrous above, setose along the 

 axin V ^^^ ^^^y ^^® ^''^^'^ ^^^^"^ surface ; petiole \ in. Inflorescence Tnter- 



Or ^^^» F^""^'®s ^ ill-) cymose, dichotomously branched. Flowers very minute. 



tary oblong, 1 -celled; stigma sessile, thick, discoid, 5-lobed; ovules 2, pendulous.— 



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or ! r V^^^^S ^^^^ '^^th milky juice. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, simple 

 Da r J ^^^*^^t^9.P^l^i^^rved. Flowers ebracteate, in axillary racemose or 

 panicled cymes, bisexual, dichlamydeous. Ca/yx 4-5-parted j lobes imbricate, 

 roT^f ^*^"^' but not, or only slightly accrescent. Corolla deciduous, between 

 th f k^*^ fiinnel-shaped, 4-5-lobed. ^Stdmem 4-5, inserted on the base of 

 anth ^^ ^^^^ corolla, alternate with its lobes, filaments short glabrous ; 



thers 2-celled, introrse. dehiscing longitudinally ; pollen-grains 4-angular. 



nry free, surrounded at the base by a thick fleshy annular disk, 

 Dvl ^i' P^^^^P^^ssed, 1-celled ; ovules 1 (rarely 2) pendulous, naked, micro- 

 ^le ultunately superior; style 2-branclied, one brancL deciduous, curved, 



pitate at the apex, the other accrescent, ultimately deciduous, divided at 

 J® apex into 2 unequal, ovate, rather obtuse divisions. Fruit ovate-orbicu- 

 jTj ^P^arginate or obcordate, compressed, very broadly winged, 1-celled, 



dehiscent. Seed solitary, linear, furrowed ; embryo minute, in hard fleshy 

 toien. — The following is the only species. . * 



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J- C. lobata, R, Br. in Wall Cat 8033 A, and in Bean. PI. Jav. Par. 



moluccana, Blume Pumph. 



P .-.-,,.. ^, f^^ivv^. v/. jc..«z*..^« u^.^me Pumph iii. 206, iv. t. 177. 



^umphii, Baill m Adansonia x. 280, and in DC Prodr. xvii 26. Perip- 



*:^'7gmm quinquelobum, Ua.%sL Cat. PL Ilort. Bogor. 351. 



])j^^T£RN Bengal, in Silhet and Cachar. Rakgoox, Ava, and Tenasserim.— 



^iB. Yunan, Indian Archipelago, Siam, New Guinea. 

 Dhft *^^^*^» striate. Leaves 3-5 in. by 3-4 J in., glabrous, membranous, polymor- 

 *L,V^' usually more or less angular and slightly lobed, base 7-9 nerved, cordate, lobes 

 aiili ^^ ^<^^minate, widely divergent; petiole 3-5 in. Peduncles 2^-4 in., solitary, 

 ^., ^'T. *^ichotomou8 ; pedicels pub-'rulous, erect, ultimately spreading or recurved. 

 Cepr^^* father crowded, secund, ebracteate. Calyx pubcruloug. CoroUa slightly ex- 

 muoL"^ ^^e calyx, whitish, deciduous. Fruit I-I4 in. by IJ in.-The plant varies 

 jj^>« in the consistence and form of the leaves, occasionally even on the same specimen, 

 tile ir ^^^® writers, several species have l>een proposed., Baillon, however, ranks 



^ all as varieties. The following occur within the limits of this Flora. 

 Bef^ 1. moluccana, leaves rather thick suLcurJate or hastato-subcordate not lobed, 



*^"es finl>n^j«i.„ -„ i.-_ -• ,« — „...*;r*^z.fl r.^/1J.'aK iii florescence cymose- 



Royle itt. 136; Miq. 

 Baill in DC. Prodr. 

 Dioscorea sativa, L. Aman. Acad. iv. 133. 

 ■^ 2. subhamata' BaiII in DC. Prodr. xviL 26 i leaves cordate ped&telj T-nerved 



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