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thick, succulent, equally 2-partite ; styles 4, 2-fid nearly from the "base, stigmas 

 windihg spirally -with 3 turns. Fruit |-| in. diam pendent; walls very thick, suc- 

 culent, indehiscent or finally dehiscent at the angles. Seeds shortly ellipsoid, some- 

 what obovoid, — Cathcart Ic, Ined, represents the cells of the ovary as occasionally 

 3 which is not improbable, or his artist may have confounded J5. CandoUei (Ifo. 4) 

 with the present species. 



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serrate or lobed, fruit globose 



gigantea^ 



silheteiisis- A nn Vrndr. xv. nt. i. 277. 

 Besronia ST>., Wall, Ca*. 9107. " 



4-celled densely covered with shaggy brown 

 Wdh Cat. 3677 B. Casnarva? silhetehsia. A. DC. Ftodr, 



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; Khasu Mts.; Wallich. East Bengal; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. .2$69). 



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' Rootstoqk short, thick, fibrous on all sides, scarcely tuberous, Leaves 6 in., 

 broadly ovate^ not acuminate, shaggy on both surfaces in Griffith's examples, only 

 slightly hairy in Wallich's. Petiole 6-18 in., hirsute in Griffith's examples, less 

 hairy m Wallich's. Scapes 2-4 in., 1-7-flowered. Male: sepals^, i'airy without,^ 

 ^ in. in Griffith's examples, smaller nearly glabrous in Wallich's ; petals 2, smaU^ 

 than the sepals, glabrous; Stamens numerous, shortly monadelphous, anthers nar- 

 rowly oblong. Female : styles bifid with tortuose stigmas. Fruit | in. and 

 upwards in <£am., globose or ovoid, without angles or protuberances. Seeds many, 

 shining brown, shortly ellipsoid.— Griffith's No. 2569 (with which Wallich's No. 3677- 

 B agrees), differs considerably in hairiness and in size of the flower from Wallich s 



Casparya ? silhetensis : two species ^re 

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tessarioarp 



shorter than the petioles, leaves ovate nearly glabr 

 serrate, fruit subpyramidal 4-celled laxly hairy 

 ending upwards in a short linear natent horn. 



ly stemless, inflorescence much 





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Assam ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2586), 



Creeping stem 0-2 in. Leaves 2-4 in., broadly ovate, glabrous o 

 bescent on the nerves heneath; petiole 6-12 in., pubescent upwards. Inflorescence 

 2-4 in. Flowers much smaller and fruit ^'^"'^ """^ — ^ — *■ *^"" ^^ ^ p/^r^ 

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Fruit 



m. diam., slightly pubescent.— This solitary example may be possibly a 

 example of B, Roxburghii, from which it does npt differ in any essential 

 particular though it is very unlike it in general aspect; the seeds are alike. (/• >v. 



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4. B. Inflata, C. B. Clarke -, stem lengthened, inflorescence axiUary, 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate glabrous or nearly so sinuate-dentate scarcely serrate, 

 fruits-celled. ^ 



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DABJEmmG, alt. 3000 ft.; a B. Clarke. Bhotan? Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 

 2587). 



Erect, 3-4 ft., branched. Leaves 4 by U-lA in., acuminate, very ^^^^^ 

 cordate ; petiole J-f in. ; stipules lanceolate-subulate, glabrous. Flowers m snor 

 axillary dichotomous cymes from several axils on each branch ; bracts lanceoiat 

 BuLulate. Male: sepals 2. whitfi. ohnvatR aUhT^ua- nfit^ls 2. linear-ohovate ; si». 



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Fbmalb: perianth of 4 segments 



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t m. diam., trigonous or almost triquetrous; carpels round, as it were intiateu, i^ ^, 

 a narrow line down the back, glabrous or nearly so, indehi""'^"^ " 



» down the ridges as in i?. BoxburahiL Seeds 



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