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W. d: A. Prodr. 104: Dah. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 32; Thwaiies Emm. 52: 

 Ohv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 368 ; Brand. For. Fl. 83. H. disperma, VaJU 

 Emm li. 28; Wall. Cat. 4210 in part. H. euonymoides, Vald Emm. ii. 

 28 H. obtusifolia, Eoxh. Wall. Cat. 4211. Tonsella disperma, Foir.— 

 Celastrinea ? Wall. Cat. 9013. . . 



In the hotter parts of India from Behar, the Concan, and Tenasserim southwards, 

 and in Ceylox, — Distrib. Malay Archipelago and Africa. • 



A shrub with climbing branches. Leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate, acute or subacu- 

 jninate or lanceolate, finely serrate, membranous, glabrous. Flowers glabrous, exceed- 

 iDgly small. ^ Chymes many times divided; partial cymes subumbellate. Petals ^ in., 

 Qsually 6, elliptic oval-oblong, concave. Ovules 2^ in each cell. Fruit oblong. iValL 

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7. ». arborea, Hoxb, ffoH, Beng. 5 ; Fl Lid. i 167 ; Cor. PL t. 205 ; 

 leaves 4-7 by 2^-3^ in., cymes and fruit 3 in. Wall Cat. 4212; DC. 

 ^rodr. 569; Brmid. F(yr. Fl 83. 1 H. disperma, Wall Gat. 4212 B. 



Interior parts of India, Eoxh, ; Bhotan and the Khasia Mrs., Griffith f Morung Mts., 

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^embranous, glabrous. Fruit of 3 carpels^ cuneiform, 3 by 1^ in. — This ought nrobably 



. *^ considered a variety of -ff. indica, from which it differs apparently in nothing but 



^ize. In the description given by Roxburgh of ZT. ohtmifolia (Fl. Ind. i. 166) the 



lowers are those of//, indica proper, while the leaves belong to H, ohtusifolia, Wight. 



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Erect trees. 



8. H. fllalngasrl/iatw. ; cymes S-flowered, racemose. 



^Ulacca, J/fl%a2/.— DisTRiB. ? Borneo. 



•^'■anc^^ terete, r Xeave^ 3 by I in., lanceolate, glabrous, coriaceous. Carpels tri- 

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Scandent or sannentose slirubs or small trees,' ^aves opposite, 

 ^tipulate. Flowers few or many, clustered in the axils of the leaves or 

 Ftra-axillary, more rarely in cymes. Calyx small, 5-parted, PeMs 5, 

 Jjibncate. iS^tamens 3, rarely 2 or 4, continuous with the disk, recurved. 

 ^ry conical, immersed in the disk, 3-celled ; style very short, stigma 

 f^^ple or 3-lobed ; ovules 2-8 in each cell, in 1-2 series, inserted on the inner 

 ^gle. Fruit baccate, 1-3-ceIled, sub-woody or fleshy. Seeds large, an^ar. 

 "^IJISXRIB. fcjpecies about 70, natives of the tropics of both hemispheres. 



Flowers 1-6 from an axillary or extra-axillary tubercle. 

 ^ Leaves coriaceous mostly 6-12 in. 



fui;?' ^^y^^cens^ Karz in J oum. As.'Soc. JSeng. 1672,pt. ii. 300; leaves 

 r-12 by 2-3t {^ oblong-lanceolate acute or subacuminate margins recurved, 

 ^^ers about 3 very small, Dryptopetalum coriaceum, Am. in Ann. 

 p[)^^^i i. 373. Microtropis coriacea, Wall Cat. 4338.^ M. longifolia, 



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 "asterj^ Pexinsdla, from Tenasserim, Gomez, Is^c.^io Penang, TFtfZ/tcA, &c. 

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