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644 xm. RHAitfNE-E. (M. A. Lawson.) [Gomnia. 



Teopical Himalaya, from Kumaon to Assam and the Khasia Mts,, ascending to 

 4000 ft. ; Banda, Birma, Tenasserim, and the Malay Peninsula.— Distkib. Jav^ 



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Branches glabrous. Leaves 3-4 by l|-2 in., ovate, acuminate, subcordate at the 

 base, serrulate. Racemes slightly puberulous ; bracteoles conspicuous, subulate. Calwo 



jlabrous or -with a very few scatttered hairs on the outside. Petals hooded. Styles \ the 



ength of the calyx-segments. Fruit glabrous. 



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3. G. napalensls, Wall, in EoxK FL Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 417; Cd. 

 4272 ; flowers pubescent, disk glabrous the lobes linear acuminate, style- 

 arms much elongated ' ^ A 



Nipat., WalKch Sikkim, Griff. / . 



Leaves longer and the flowers a little larger than in the last species, and the styles 

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A , 12, KSZiXNirSf E, Meyer. ';i .^r-^^ 



Unarmed scandent cirrhose shrubs, with slender angular brandies. Leaves 

 alternate, entire. Flowers umbellate, on long slender peduncles. tcf/|/J? 

 superior, tube broadly obconic. Petals 5, inserted upon the margin of the 

 disk, hooded. Stamens 5, equalling the petals. Disk epigynous, fillmg the 

 calyx-tube. Ovary' 3-celled ; style short, 3-cleft, stigmas recurved, -rntii 

 inferior, obovoid-globose, 3-celled ; cells 1-seeded, coriaceous.^ tardily ae- 

 hiscing,— DiSTEiB. Species 3, two African, and one North Indian. 







1. K. lance'olatus. Brand. For. Fl. 574. Gouania lanceolata, Wall 



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Tlie Panjab, Oude, and the Western Himalaya from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 

 1-4000 ft. 



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The whole plant quite glahrous, of the" youngest parts of the shoots and flowers 

 pubescent. Leaves 1-1 1 hy \~~\ in., ovate to ovate-lanceolate. ^ : '. ; ; ... \^^^ 



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radicaut (sometimes herbaceous in Leea) ; juice copious, watery. of€7/« 

 angled compressed or cylindric, with numerous very large proper vessels. 

 Leaves alternate, usually petioled, simple or digitately or pedately 3-9-w40- 

 late, rarely pmnate or decompound. Floioers umbellately- paniculateiy- or 

 spi^ately-cymose. Pedundes often transformed into simple or compouna 

 tendrils or adhering to rocks or trees by viscid pads termmating tij« - 

 ultimate segments, or expanded into a broad floriferous membrane (i^«^^ 

 santji^). Flowei-s regular, hermaphrodite, rarely unisexual. Calyx smau, 

 entire or 4-5-toothed or- lobed. Petals 4^5, distinct, or cohenng, valvate, 

 caducous. Stamem 4-5, opposite the petals, inserted at the base ol iub. 

 disk or between its lobes, filaments short subulate ; anthers free or conjaie, 

 2-ceUed, mtrorse. Disk free or connate with the petals stamens or ovaij, 

 annular or variously expanded. Ovary 2-6-ceUed; style short, sienu 

 conical or 0, stigma minute or large and flat, sublobed ; ovules i-^ 

 each cell, ascending, anatropal, raphe ventral. Berry 1-6-cellea . J; 

 1-2-seeded. Seed erect, often fugulose, albumen mtilagmousVen^Pf^ 

 short basal, cotyledons ovate.— Distrib. Species about 250, inliaoi" o 

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