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H. ?grandiflora, WaU. Cat 4213. H 



H. volubilis, Hemie in Wall 



rigida, HampC^ '- H. tortuosa, WaU. Cat 42 1 6, - ^ i/ • 



Cat 4215 (not of Linnceus). Salacia laevigata, Wight in BookBot Mtsc, la 



295 ; Suppl.t. xxxvi. {non DC). '.. , i^; -■^' 



Eastern and Western Peninsulas, from Tenasserim and the Concan switliwards. 

 SiLUET, FaZZicA.— DiSTEiB. Malay Archipelago, China, Australia, tropical Africa. ^ 

 A climbing shrub; young branches often C[uadrangular. Leaves 2-5 hy l-H "^^-i 



' elliptic or oblong, obtuse, acute or shortly acuminate, crenate-sen-ate or ^'i^^^,^v^ «.?!! 

 coriaceous 

 Disk puberulous 

 (rtriate, 4-6-seeded, 



. Mowers in dichotomous cymes shorter than the leayes. Cahx-lohes entire, 

 erulous. Ovules 6 in each cell. Carpels 14-2 in., obovoid, emarginaie, 



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. a H. Cumlngrii, Laws.; calyx-lobes round, petals i /^ ^^^^'^^ 

 puberulous outside inside covered with rust-coloured hairs for the ^pper 



three-fourths glabrous below- ^' 



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Malacca, Griffith, — ^Distrib, Philippines. ' . * , .... 



A climbing shrub. Leaves 3-4 by 1^-2 in., elliptic, acute or suhacummate, Z^r^TZ 

 coriaceous, entire. Flon^ers in dichotomous cymes shoiiier than the leaves. 

 lobes very short, glabrous, entire. Dish with a ring of hairs at the base of the stamens, 

 otherwise glabrous. Fruit? 





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. Z.obbli, Laws. ; calyx-lobes elliptic-oblong, petals elHptic-ojate 

 sligbtly cohering at tbe base entirely covered on the inside witn aeiuc 

 cinereous hairs. • . ' ; ;, >>, - 



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glabrous. "^ ' Ci// 



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ng shrub? Leaves 3-4 by 2-2 in., broadly elliptic, subacuminate, 



Cymes 2-3 times divided, fiborter than tlie leaves.' m>Jx-lom 



retcdahin. ^w<Aer« almost sessile. Fruit f ■''■ ^-^'^ ^'^ ' 



AmottitoiiL, Wight III i. 133, t 46-47; calyx-lobes orbiciJ^- 

 ovate, petals \ in. shortly clawed cordate very concave witn m^u 

 margins. Salacia terminalis, T^zmito JSViMw, 407. ;. . -tJi.*;- ^^ 



Western Peninsula ; Quilon, Wiaht ; Canara, P/an^ Hohendcler. CBn-o^. 

 Galle, 2%«;a{<e«. ^ ' - •■'."',,. f. acute 



A climbing shrub, glabrous in every part. Xeaue* 3-3 by H-2| !»•' ^''^'P ' 'Uaiy 

 or subacuminate, very coriaceous, entire or faintly crenate, glabrous, tymtn 

 or panicled. Calyx-lohta entire. Fruit 2 4 in., oblong, emarginate. ' ^ " 



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 hranches. 



Petals 



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. Grahaml, Fi^A< III. L 134 : 7c. t. 380 ; cymes diffuse pan ^ 

 longer than the leaves, calyx-lobes orbicular sharply crenate. x^c 

 (Ms Bomh. FL 32. H. lanceolata, Wall. Cat. 4214. Salacia pam^"^ 

 WaU. Cat. 421^ B in part. ■ 



Western Peninsdla; from the Concan southwards, Wight, &c. 

 ? SxLHET, Wallich. :. .■- "" 



A clmbiug shrub. Leaves 3-5 by li-2 in., ovate-elliptic, acute or s;'^,;;""gb- 

 entire, conaceous, glabrous. Pe<a/« » in. , veiy shortly clawed^ . »"^*J'°largiB»'«- 

 brous. ^n<Aers subsessile. Disk glabrous. Fruit 3 by | in., linear;obIong, eu* ^^^^^ 



Var Leaves 4 in. lanceolate-acuminate, flowere in slender divaricatino f 

 twice the length of the leaves, fruit 2 J in. narrowly elliptic— Assam, anp'*- 



-«. H. todtca, WiUd.Sp.Pl.l 193; leaves 1^2jbyHlio.,crgntire. 

 slender dichotomous shorter than the leaves, calyx-lobes tnangui^ ^^^j. 

 fr^it 1-li ia ' i>C;, i^rocf/-. T. 568 ; Ebxh. M. Ind. 1165 i Car.ri.^- 



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