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 ovate or ovate-lanceolate entire glaucous beneath. Griffith Itin, noteSj 24 ; . 

 7c, PL Asiat. t, fiOo, fig, 4. P. geminiflora, Don Prodr. 63. 



NiPAL, Wallwh, SiKKTM, alt. 4-6000 ft. Khasta Mts., alt. 3-6000 ft.. H.f.^ T. 



A glabrous climLer with slender angular branches and distant leaves. Stipides 

 ^ in., linear-subulate. Leaves 2^-4 by 2-3 in., thin, membranous, deep green above, 

 glauceseent beneath, marked near the base with 2-3 flat circular glands, rounded or 

 cordate at the base, apiculate, 1- or bub-3-nerved, nerves prominent, smaller nerves^ 

 arched, remote, inconspicuous ; petiole ^ in., usually with two glands above the middle. 

 Peduncfes simple, in pairs in the axils of the leaves, about half the length of the 

 petiole, slender, 1-fiowered, jointed above the middle, rarely cymose; cymes lax, few- 

 flowered. Flowers less than ^ in. diam., cup-shaped ; tube short, cylindrical. CaJyjr- - 

 lobes longer than the tube. Petals equal to the calyx-lobes. Corona of many rows of, 

 short threads. Gynophore shorter than the flower. Ovary ovoid or subglobose, gla- 

 brous. Frmt subglobose, the size of a large pea, purplish. , 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



p. CALONEURA, KuTz in Joxim. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 95, described as from "Burma 

 probably Upper Tenasserim or Mart^ban, Brandts,'' is, according to an authentic 

 specimen sent by Dr. Kurz from the Calcutta Herbarium, the Aristolochia trilohata^ 

 L., of the West Indies and South America, no doubt introduced into India; it is 



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 short ; limb 5-parted. Petals 5, springing from the base of the calyx-tube. C<h 

 rona of fine threads springing from the tube of the calyx and more or less divided 

 into five antipetalous phalanges. Gynophore short; filaments flat; anthers 

 oblong. Ovary subglobose. Style short dividing into three branches ; stigmas; 

 reniformi-capitate. Fruit capsular.— Distrib. 4 or 5 species, natives of tropi- 

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1. P. malayana. Planch.; Mast, in Trans. Linn. So(^. xxvii. 639; 

 leaves oblong finely serrated with a long abrupt acumen, calyx-tube campanu- 

 late, ovary globose. 



Malacca, Mai?igay, Griffith, ^' 



A shrub. Leaves 3^ by 1 in.; petiole \ in. Flowers I in. in diam. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, tube short covered with tawny down ; lobes oblong, obtuse, 4 or 5 times 

 longer than the tube. Petals oblong, l-nerved, half the length of the sepals. Corona 

 of a single row of flat, viUose threads, half the length of the petals and arising vi\\^ 

 them from the margin of tlie tube. Gynophore shorter than the peUls. Stamens d, 

 filaments filiform ; anthers oblong. Ovary globose, villose. Stigmas large, capitate- 

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