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W. 8f A. Prodr. 340 ; Wight HI. t. 103 ; DcUz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 99 ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 682.-~Jiheede Hart. Mai. viii. *. 47, 48, 49. 



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/.Assam and Cast Bengax; Griffith. Dbccan Pkninsuia; Wight. 

 Mts. ; Stocks, Law, DalzelL Ceylon; not uncommon up to 2000 ft., Thwaites.-r:, 

 DiSTBiB. Malaya. 



Leaves 6-8 by 3-4 in., usually acute ; petiole 1 in. Male flowerz very small, 

 pedicels ^-\ in.; female flowers including the ovary \ in. Ovary early becoming 1- 

 celled by the separation of the 3 fleshy placentas which only at first meet in its centre. 

 Seeds much compressed, hardly ^^ in. thick. 



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Zakonia 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



narrow-oblong 



Chittagong; H.f. ^ T.— The example contains neither flowers nor fruit, but has 

 all the appearance of Zaiumia to which genus the collectors referred it in the "®1^*^ 

 The only other species of thf* genus (collected by Beccari in Borneo) has the se^ 

 (including the winffs) 6 in. broad curved lunate. ■ - - /- 



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Large climbers; tendrils simple or 2-fid. 



en&e 



leaflets. 



smaU, dioecious, white, in compound panicles, with filifonn 



corolla 



in the male ; ovary elongate-clavate 

 * 'unate stigmas ; Qvules very many, t 



irtical 



parietal 

 Seeds verj 

 liorned or 

 or 0.— Di 

 Australia, 



e, elongate-clavate, truncate and 3-valved at tne 

 ressed, vertical, in six rows, much corrugated, incifl 

 with a terminal membranous wing longer than *h® ^^. 

 3 3-5. extending from Nipal through Malaya to INonn 





seed 



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Hook./, in Gen. PL i. 840; leaves very fleshy, irmt 



verrucose 



Tounded faces. Kurz in Joum. As. Soe. 1878, pt. ii- 

 phylla, Wall. PI As. Ear. t. 133 ; Cat, 3724. 



106. Zanonia saxco- 



Prome 



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-Distrib, 



Leaflets 2i by 1? in., obtuse : netiolule scarcelv 1 in. Seeds 



pressed, narrowed nearly to a point at the base wit 

 horns at the apex, between which rises the wing. 



2. A. clavlgrera, Hooh /. in Oen. Pl.l .- , 



3 by f in. at the top, seeds including the wing 1 in. slightly muricate 

 flat faces. Zanonia clavigera. Wall. PL As. Ear. ii. p. 28, partly ? ; Cat 



840 



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SiKKiM, ascending to 4000 ft., J. D. H., Ga7nble, C. B. Clarke. 



3000-4000 ft. ; H. / rf- T. 

 No. 2520). 



Leaflets 3 by 1^ in., acut< 

 much flattened, with several 



1 amellae, 



Khasia Mts., al^ 

 SixHET ; Wallich. Tknasserim ; Heifer (Kew ^>^^^ 



; petiolule often exceeding \ in. Seeds jelloyn^^^^^p^ 

 deeg triangular spinose teeth at tte^pex,^^.^^^ ^^^j^^ 



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he wing springing from these narrow splits.— Wallich's ^^^^}''^T i^ica 

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grows m the same locality 



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