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^19. E. fimbriatus, .TTaZ;. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carer/, ii. 408; 

 Cat. 4287 ; leaves ovate-aciiminate biserrate membranous, fruit with 

 4 tapering wings. ? E. micrantlius, I)o7i Frodr. 191. / 



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' Temperate Himalaya; from Kumaon, alt. 8-10,000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 10-12,000 ft., 



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A tree? Leaves 14-3 by i-l| in., elegantly fringed -n-itli sharp deep biseVrafurcs, 

 dark-green. Peduncles 2-3 in.; pedicels branching subunibellately. Petals j^^ m.^ 

 white, broadly ovate, entire. Pruit leathery, the size of a cherry.— The woodcut given 

 m Paxton's Flower Garden, ii. 55j t. 316, can hardly belong !o this species; the leaves 

 resemble more those of F. pendulus or E. frigidus. 



2o! E. frigrldus, Wall in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Caret/^. 409 ; Cat. 4288 ; 

 adult leaves 3-5 by |-1 J in. oblong-lanceolate acuminate somewhat sharply 

 serrate, fruit with 4 long tapering wings. ' ' ' - a > V- %- j'^ 'il 



' SiKKiM Himalaya, alt. 8-12,000 ft.; JTZ). 5^ Bhotai^, Griffith; Kumaon, Wrdlich. 

 ^ A small tree? yoiing shoots succulent.' Flowers very small, on weak succulent fili* 

 form peduncles and pedicels, the latter 4 in- long. Petals orbicular, entire. Fruit as 

 in the last species. 





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% Fruit armed with Spines. ' ■ -■ - ■ - ' - 



21. E. cinereus, Xaws. ; branches rough with minute tubercles, leaves 

 obovate, fruit | in. globose armed with pale-coloured spines. : . /; : r 



East Bengal, Griffith. \ .,v : , ^ ' — 



Scandent? Branches destitute of rootlets. Leaves 2{ by l| in., broadly obovate, 

 rounded at the apex, serrate, pare-coloured. Fbihersf ' , 



_ 22. E- ecblnatus, Wall in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey j ii. 410 ; 

 Cat. 4285 ; branches smooth radicant, leaves ovate-lanceolate, fruit ^ in. 

 globose armed with' dark-coloured spines. -Moyle HI. t. 31 ; Bot. Mag. 

 2767 ; Voigt Hort. Sub. Calc. 165 ; Brand. For. FL 80. E. scandens, Gra/iam 

 \n Jameson's Ed. New. Phil. Journ. 1827, 386. G. vagans. Wall. Cat. 4284,. 



Temperate Himalaya ; from Garwtal to Sikkim, aTt t-10,000 ft. 



Climbing over trees and rocks, to which the stems adhere by means of dense adven- 

 btious rootlets. Leaves 1-2 by |-| in., serrate, dark -green above, pale beneath. 

 ^^duncles mo^i\v ^ times divided. Petals J in., orbicular, crenulate. StyU -^ in^ . 



mostly 3 times divided. 



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^ •tranches smooth and never radicant, Ihis and tne smoott 

 ws by which to distinguish this species from the last. In 

 it ^.^/|Ver suggested that it iuight be a variety only, and h 



i; t>. Fruit unarmed. 



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t?23. E. vag-ans, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed: Carey, ii. 412; Cat. 4284, 

 ' J^/>ar^; stem climbing, leaves 1-2 by \-\ in. ovate-lanceolate serrate, fruit 

 the size of a pea nearly black minutely tubercled. 



Temperate Himalaya ; Sikkim and Nipal, TTa/Z/eA, &c. . ' , 



branches smooth and never radicant. This and the smooth fruit are the only charac^ 



In Bot. Mag. 54, t. 2767, Sir 



^,oicu Lii«i, 11/ xxi. ..*. «v. » — -^; 6 founded this opinion on 



^e Circumstance That' hTbeli^^^ he had seen a tendency in some bf the fruits of jE. 

 ^(igans to become echinate. 



24. E. Criffithii, Kwrzin Joufn. As. SocBeng. 1872, pt. 2, 73; stem 

 scandent acutely 4-angled or -winged, leaves 3-4 by 1-H ™ ^ ^, 

 oblong-lanc'eolate. .. Hippocratea angulafa, Grif. Notul. iv. 473 ; Ic. PI. 

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