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above view, but there are two small ovate acute bracts placed at that point.^ 

 Finlaysoniana possibly belongs here : but the example is very imperfect am' 

 leaves are 2-3, some of them petioled. 



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Flora 1871, 297; cauline 



cordate-ovate or orbicular, petioles and inflorescence with short paleaceous 

 hairs, capsule winged below. ' . .-■ 



Mabtaban; Attaran Valley ; Branrfw. 

 • An erect low herb, simple or nearly so, succulent ; rootstock tuberous. Leaf 3-6 

 in,, sometimes proliferous, obtuse or obtusely acuminate, entire or deepljr crenate, 

 often finely ciliate, membranous, glabrous or sometimes papillose and hairy on the 

 nerves beneath ; petiole ^1 in. or ; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, pilose. Cy^nes 

 long-peduncled, slender, few-flowered, springing from the base of the ribs of the 

 leaves ; pedicels capillary, glandular-pubescent ; flowers small, white; bracts of the 

 male flowers Jin., broad-ovate, obtuse, glabrous, deciduous, the female. smaller, lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, pilose, more persistent. T/Lale : sepals ^ in., broadly round, 

 slightly hairy without ; petals a little smaller ; stamens many, monadelphous, anthers 

 obovoid, emarginate. Female: styles 2, connate, shortly 2-lobed. Capsule nearly 

 ^ in., glabrous or slightly hairy, oblong, 2-celled, 3-wingea; wings J in. broad, toun- 

 -cate at the apex, or the medial wing twice as broad ; placentas 2-fid. — The above 

 copied from Kurz, who has placed the species between 5. prolifera and B, sinuata ; 

 the very imperfect specimen communicated seems B. integrijolia, No. 38. 



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46. 8. sinuata, Wall. Cat. 3680 ; caulescent, leaves cordate-ovate co- 

 vered on both surfaces by minute but thickly placed stellate haim, caP^"i« 

 winged below. A. DC. Prodr. xv. pt. i. 364 ; Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, 

 pt. ii. 108. Diplocinium biloculare, Wiffht Ic. t. 1814. B. guttata, elongata, 

 and subrpjunda, yr«//. Gcrf. 3671 B, 6291, 6293. .> 



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^ PiNAifo; W^aHicA, &c. Tkkassehim, PamA, &c. Maulta; Maingay TSo. ^Ti^ ^^ 

 ■Bootstock small with small tubers. Whole plant 10 in. but more often quite 

 small, covered (except the upper pait ©f the cymes) with much minute Stellate 

 pubescence. Stem 1-6 in. Leaves 1-6 in. diam., nearly equal at the base, denticulate- 

 ssinuate; petiole f-3 in. orO; stipules less than } in., lanceolate, acuminate, stellateiy 

 pubescent. Cymes weak; lower bracts lanceolate, stellateiy hairy; upper otten 

 quite glabrous, sometimes lobed; flowers not very numerous, small, pink, glabrouh. 

 Male: sepals 2, roundish ; petals 2, narrower, obovate; stamens about 20, muchni(h 

 nadelphous, anthers obovoid, connective not produced. Female : perianth-segments o, 

 inner gradually smaller ; styles 2, combined half-way up. stigmas lunate. ^^P?r^ 

 i by I in. including the wings ; wings from the lower part of the capsule, two smane 

 triangular acute. Seeds short-ellipsoid, somewhat obovoid. 



47. 8. andamenaU, Parish ww.; caulescent, nearly g^a*'^^/^ 

 cordate-orbicular shortly petioled or the upper sessile ; capsule winged below. 



Akdamans and Moulmein ; Parish. .j-e 



Rootstock tuberous. Stem erect, whole plant 6-10 in. Leaves 1-4 m. diam., eni 

 or minutely closely denticulate, equal at the base, with few lax hairs on the nerv 

 beneath, sometimes minutely pilose above ; petiole of the radical leaves elongaw, 

 the cauline usually 0-| in. ; stipules small, ovate, acute, glabrous. Peduncles yj 

 glabrous upwards; bracts very small, ovate, acute; flowers not very ^^^\x q^i 



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the leaf and the flowers are much larger. 





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