Coluinna,] xLii. khamne^. (M. A. Lawson.) 643 



3. C. travancorlca, £edd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 188 : young branches 

 covered witli a dark rust-coloured pubescence, leaves 3-5 by \\-\l in. 



Western Peninsula ; Quilon, WigU; 8. Travancor, Beddome. 



J^ves oblong shortly and suddenly acuminate, glabrous above, slightly puhesccnt 

 on tbe nerves beneath. Flowers J in. across. Fedicels puberulous. Cali/x-tule with a, 

 lew inspid hairs, otherwise glabrous. Petals clawed, spatbulate, acute. . 



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10. APTEROir, Kurz. 





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A scandent shrub. 'Leaves penninerved. Flowers smalf, fajscicled, dis- 

 posed in panicled racemes. Calyx 5-fid, tube shortly obconic; lobes 

 ^reading, acute. Petals 5 obovate, minute, inserted between the calyx- 

 lobes. Stamens 5, a little longer than the petals, filaments filiform. Dish 

 ^t, free. Ovary subglobose, immersed in the disk, 2-celled ; style very 

 Saort, stigmas 2. Drupe ? globose, adnate to the calyx-tuhe 2^ in Gouania, 

 ^d crowned by the calyx-limb, 1-celled by arrest, 1-seeded I 



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J- A, lanceolatum, Kurz in Joura. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, ii. 301. 



Tenasserim, Kurz. 



^ large scandent sL ortly-tomentose 'shrub. Leay^es 4-5 in., lanceolate, \vith a long 

 I ^^™^'it obtuse point, serrate, chartaceous with a fulvous pubescence on the nerves, at 

 ^ngth glabrous, lateral nerves numerous (7-9) prominent and reaching to the margin. 



Kfl^^* hoary or yellowishly tomentose. Flowers small; pedicels f^ in., slenderer' 

 ^fleshy, puberulous, fascicled or sub-solitary. Calyjc |-J in, diam., puberulous. 

 ^"^y pubescent ; style shortly bifid. Fruit?— Kmz speaks of the immature fruit as 

 ^^^^ globose, and the size of a peppercorn. I have seen no specimen. 





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Unahned climbing shrubs. Leaves alternate.- /YoM'ers polygamous, in 

 J^ary or terminal spikes ; rachis often cirrhose. Calyx superior, 5-fid ; 

 ?ioe short, obconic. ' Petals 5, inserted below the margin of the disk, 

 ^^^^^Stamms 5, enfolded by the petals. wi)is* filling the calyl-thbe, 

 j^gled or stellate. Ovary sunk in the disk, 3-celIed; style 3-cIeft. 

 f^^ inferior, coriaceous, crowned by the persistent limb of the calyx, 

 miiged. — Djstrib. Species 30, chiefly' American, a few are African and 

 Viatic, and one belongs to the Pacific Islands. ' 



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,.^- <^' microcarpa, DC. Prodr. ii. 40; flowers sessile densely pubescent, 

 jj?^ glabrous 5-lobed, style-arms glabrous minute. W. d- A. Prodr. 167; 

 l^-Cai. 4271 ; Thwaites Enum. 75. G. integrifolia, Kurz in Journ. As. 

 '^^eng. 1871, pt. ii. 49. G. tilisefolia, ffeym in Wall. Cat. 4271. 



g^EsTERN Peninsula; from the Concan southwards. Pegu, Kurz. Malacca, 

 ^<«, &c. Ceylon, ascending to 2000 ft.— Distrib. Java. ; 

 joing branches and racemes pubescent. Leaves 2-3 by j-l^ m., ovate or elliptic, 

 r.^M acuminate, orbicular or subcordate at the base, entire or very faintly crenate- 

 ^*% glabrous. Calyx densely hairv outside, glabrous within. Petals obovate-oblong, 

 ^y concave, margins involute. DiskloUs faintljr emarginate, or truncate. Frud 

 ^, ^^ged, pubescent, at length glabrous. 



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r^ug, disk glabrous 5-lobed, lobesoblong faintly emarginate, style- 

 y^s elongate. ;/eox6. Cor. P;. irr 95 {not LanJc.); Wall. Lai. 42/0; 



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