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• 'A scandent shrub with terete branches, the young shoots and branches pendulous- 

 Leaves 2^-5 by 1^-2^ in., oval oblong or ovate or obovate, acuininate, serrate, mem- 

 branous. Flowers yellowish-green, in terminal pendulous panicles. ■ Petals j\ in., 

 oblon^r. — FoKase very variable. An oil for burning in lamps is expressed from the seeds. 



2. C. stylosa, Wall in RoxK Fl.Ind. ed. (7ar^y, ii. 401 ; Ca^. 4313 j 

 calyx-segments ovate rounded, petals \ in. oblong with wavy margins, style 

 3-lobed, fruit 3-celled 3-6-seeded, seed i by ^ in. curved black, Yoigt Mart. 

 Svb, Cole. 166. . ^ ^ ..- ' • '''*^ 



NiPAL, WalUch ; Sikkim Himalaya, alt. 5-6000 ft., /. D. H. ; Khasia Mts., alt. 



4-5000 ft., 6^n;^/A,&c.; ? Pegu, iU'Cfeffiawrf. - ; " •' 



^r A scandent shrub witb terete branches. Leaves 2^ by 14-2 in., elliptic or ovate- 

 bblong, acute or subacurainatej serrate. Flowers in short axillary or terminal irregular 

 racemose cymes. ' Fruit yellow, crowned by the persistent style. , / -. r-no? u-Mi^'-^ 



IL Branched destitute of 



delicate, 



'"'k I;, venulosa, ' Wall CcU. 4321; calyx-segments half 



petals I in. linear-oblong' with wavy margins, style acute not lobed- .. ].-f, 



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A scandent shrub, with smooth pale-brown round branches, or dark brown and rather 

 rough. Leaves 4-6 by 2-2^ in., elliptic-oblong, narrowed at the base, suddenly and 

 shortly acuminate, faintly serrate membranous, venation conspicuous but very^ 

 shining. .yFlowers in short axillary or terminal spicate cymes. Fruit? — A single spe- 

 cimen from Silhet in the Wallichian" Herbarium. Closely allied to C.mniculata, ' *-) 



4. C. monosperma,' i?oa:&. Eort. Beng. 18; Fl. Ind. I 625; cajyx- 

 segihentsl)foadly and roundly ovate, petals ^V in, suborbicular, style 3-lot>e^> 

 fruit 1-celled 1-seeded, seed \ in. elliptical brown. Wall. Cat. 4311 a^irf 700^; 

 ^ '^ ' Hmgk.eZ; Voigt Hart, Sub, Calc. 166. Cmndsn, BentkinHoofc. 



KewJourn. Bot iil 334, ^ Catha monosperma, Benik in Hook Lond./oum 



^o<. i. 483. C. Benthamii, Gardn. & Champ, in Hook 



'-hSisTERN Bengal an5 AssamJ TFaZZicA, Griffith^ &c.— Distrib. China. ^^'*^^'' '^ 

 •K A scandent shrub with quadrangular branches. Leaves 2-4 by 1-1 1 ^?-»^^l*^°|' 

 elliptic, acuminate, sharply serrulate, coriaceous. Flowers white or greenish-veiiow» 

 in short pedunculate cymes, frequently disposed in long slender axillaiy or termmai 

 naked or leafy racemes. Fttah very finely crenate.— The whole plant drying blacK. > 



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1. C, CKENULATA, WaU. Cat, 4323, is a Siara plant. 

 C, FiNLAYsoNiANA, Wall, Cat. 4324, is a native of Slam. '' . ; ' - '^ «^ ^ 

 Clucida; WaR. in Boxb. FL Ind, ed. Carey, ii. 400; WaU. Cat. 4318. >• 



Jackianus, Stevd. Nomenc. 314 (capsules many-seeded). ^ ' 



r C. micr.vxtha;:Rox6. FI. Ind. I 625 (leaves pinnate). A native of the Moruccas. 

 C. PAUciPLOBA, WaU. in Itoxt. FL Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 400 (ovary 1-cellod, pW; 



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C. BACEM09A, Wall. Cat. 4320, Vithout flowers or fruit is indeterminable. . ^ ^ 



C TRioYNA, Lam.; Roxb. Ft. Ind. i. 624; Wall. Cat. 4315. C. ^HT^^'S^S 

 Fl. Ind. 1. 625, is a native of the Mauritius, not of the Moluccas as stated by Koxuurb . 

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