Dioseorea.] CLIV. DIOSCOREACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 289 
by me may have other earlier names in Malayan Flora than I have given ; but the 
yan species are even more.loosely described than the Indian. The Wallichian 
collection is very complete, but the species are often mixed. 
k A. Leaves 3-5-foliolate. Capsule in all oblong. Seeds winged at the 
top. 
Szor. I. Stamens 6, all antheriferous. Pistillode low, broad. 
.l D. dæmona, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 805; Wight. Te. t. 811. D. 
nosa, Wall. Cat. 5099; Kunth Enum. v. 413. D.triphylla Herb. Ham. 
D. altissima, Herb. Roxb. D. trinervia, Roxb. e Wall. Cat. 5099. D. 
poena, Roxb. ex Wight. (error, for dæmona,) D. hirsuta, Dennst. Schluess. 
Hort. Mal. 38. Helmia 3 dæmona, Kunth Le 439. Smilax? narcotica 
Ẹ virosa, Herh. Ham. ex Wall. Cat.—Rheede Hort. Mal. vii. t. 51, 52. 
D Tropical forests throughout INDIA, BURMA, and the Matt PENINSULA.— 
ISTRIB, Malay Islands, Tonkin. 
Bef eng tuberous, lobed, biennial. Stem stout, terete, more or less prickly. Leaves 
all dlate, long-petioled ; leaflets 3-12 in., glabrous or finely pubescent beneath, 
peticlulate, broadly cuneate-obovate, cuspidately caudate-acuminate, sometimes 
Wësch reticulate, lateral very oblique 5-6-nerved, central 3-5-nerved ; petiole 6-12 in., 
ae prickly. Male racemes 6-18 in., pubescent or woolly ; spikes 1—3 in., shortly 
pans nneled, cy lindrie, dense-fld.; bracts shorter than the flowers; sepals orbicular- 
ate, membranous, shorter than the coriaceous incurved petals; anthers subsessile. 
Lit spikes solitary, flowers distant, perianth of the male. Capsule 2-23 E 
than th? base and ‘top truncately rounded. Seeds with the oblong wing ron er 
8 e e nucleus.— Roxburgh is undoubtedly right in referring Rumph’s “ Ubium 
Mestre ” to this, but by oversight cites t. 127 for 128. 
ta hy reticulata ; leaves finely reticulate beneath, male racemes much branched, 
Pule tomentose, D. macrocarpa, Wall. Cat. 5100. 
Pi Secr. IT. Stamens 3 antheriferous, alternating with 3 staminodes. 
tstillode columnar. 
s, D" tomentosa, Fe ve in Roth Nov. Pl. Sp. 971; leaves 3-5- 
plate softly tomentose GEN bracts shorter than the flower. Roch, 
ton vd. iii. 805; Wall. Cut. 5001. D. triphylla, Herb. Russ. Helmia: 
mona, Kunth Enum. v. 431. 
e Deccan PENINSULA, from Canara southwards. CEYLON. . 
toy toot (of long tuberous fibres, 1-2 ft. Ic. Thwaites) Stem slender, proe 
in, lo ` the base, Leaves usually snow-white beneath; leaflets very varia de 
en, D or narrow, acuminate or cuspidate, shortly petiolulate, lateral o ten 
Male spikes 4-1 in., ternate on the branches of a very glend er 
ments mentose panicle; flowers A. in diam., sessile or pedicelled; perian h eg 
‘lated Al; staminodes equalling the stamens, nearly as long as the sepals, tips 
Capsules 1 in., cuneately oblong, downy. 
3. D. Penta V C 29. —5-foliolate glabrous 
0 phylla, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1032; leaves 3-5-foliolate g 
hady pubescent Lee ec bracts shorter than the flowers. Bond, PL 
Kunth 6; Wight. Te. t. 814; Wall. Cat. 5098; Thwaites Enum. : 55 
al, (Un. 396 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl.247. D. triphylla, Linn l. ^i 
Le, set 5702; Dalz. & (ibs. L c. ; Jacq. Te. t. 627 ; Coll. ii. 365 * wnth 
D. digitata ,Pieiniana, Kunth l. c. 394. D.lunata, Roth Nov. Pl. Sp.370. 
in Bitata, Mill Gard. Dict. No. 6. Botryosicyos pentaphyllus, oc 12. 
Rheng, Bi Beil. 3. Hamatris triphylla, Salisb. Gen. Pl. Fragm. 12. 
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