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eSTnents 



above ; petiole under ^ in. Peduncles | in. Flowers nearly ^ in. Cali/x- 

 leathery. Pez^a/5 narrow at the base, ciliated. Ovari/ turbinate, villose. Fr^iit the- 

 size of a hazel nut, subglobose ; rind dry, leathery. Seeds ovoid, flattened, pitted. 

 Larger m all its parts than P. malayana. 



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Twining herbs or undershrubs. 



-- Leaves entire or palmilohed, usually with 



two or more flat, circular glands on the under surface and with similar glands 

 ^L ^P^x of the petiole. Cymes axillary, few- or many-flowered, on long 

 peduncles one or more of which is sterile and tendril-like. Male Jlower : Calyx 

 tubular or bell-shaped ; limb 5-lobed, lobes leathery, imbricate. Petals 6, free, 

 membranous, l-nerved, springing from the calyx-tube. Corona a ring of threads 

 arising from near the base of the calyx-tube, or wanting. Glands of the disc 6, 

 opposite the sepals, strap-shaped or capitate. Andrcedum cup-shaped, mem- 

 wanoiis beneath ; filaments 5, linear -subulate; anthers linear-oblong, 2-celled. . 

 ^mry rudimentary or 0. Female Jlower : Calyx and corolla as in the male. 

 Corona a membranous fold, springing from near the base of the calyx-tube or 

 Done. ^ Glands of the disc 5, strap-shaped, capitate, opposite the sepals. Stami- 

 flo'fe o, forming a membra^^ the base of the ovary, above 



M^^*- ^^^^ barren filaments. Ovary globose or elliptic, sessile or stalked ; 

 %ie cylin^pj^g^l or none ; stigmas 3, capitate or flat and dilated. Fruit capsular, 

 jj^ved. Seeds numerous, attached by long 

 ^TRIB. A small erenus, native of the tropics 



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^^^-/^ly^^-tube, stigmas sessile. 



Petals springing from the throat of 



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1- UK. Wigrhtlana, Wall. Cat. C7C4; leaves membranous uniform or 

 ^e all chrdate ovate acute or some more or less palmately 3-lobed. Wight 

 1^; W.& A. Prodr. i. 363 : Thwaites Fnum. 128. M. diversifolia. Wall. 



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/^iliB of the Western Penixsttla, and Ceylon. 



ovaf ^^berous. Branches striated, roughish. Leaves 2-3 by 2 in., glabrous, from 



cent T^^^ rounded or slightly cordate at the base to hastate or palmately lobed ; the 



on J *^^^ longest, obtuse; nerves remote; petiole about 1 in., with a sessile gland 



J'ach gjj^ ^j. ^j^^ ^^^^ Peduncles axillary, filiform. Flowers not seen. Calyx, 



^lT™^ to Wight's figure, small; tube short, lobes orate. Petals broad, shorter 

 • ^ the sepals, attached to the throat of the calyx. Ovary subglobose. surmounted 



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stigmas. Fruit glabrous, the size of a small plura, 



"uges around the 'margins.— Wight and Arnott refer Wallich's M. diversifolia to 

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type specimen in Wallich's herbarium clearly belongs to the 



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^^AccA. Singapore, Wallich.—Di3TmB. Borneo. 

 the 1 ^ ^^^®- L^<^ves 3-4 by 2 in., coriaceous, oblong-obovate, obtuse, tapering to 

 sessil i' "^^^^^b prominent, secondary nerves remote; petiole ^ in., with a large 

 i in ^/^^^,o^ either side at the top. Tendrils as long as the petiole. Male flowers 

 /, Z' ^longite-fusiform. ■ Calyx leathery, shordy 3-lobed, lobes ovate, connivent 



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