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'i^^-^VAK. l.podanthay Molkenboer in PL Jungh. 89 (sp.); pedicels \ in. Miq. Fl,Ind. 

 Bat. i. pt. 1. 732, — Sikkim, Bhotan, Khasia, frequent. — Peduncles sometimes 3 in- 

 Fruits ovoid, intermediate primary ridges 0. — Eeferred to H, -podantha from the 

 description only; Molkenboer relies partly on the leaves being setulose, hut so^ 

 they are in typical H.javanica. H. laxifiora, BC, Prodr, iv. 61 ( = H. densiflora, DC. 

 Prodr, iv. 61), does not differ unliess by the fruits being slightly less compressed. 



j<j^ Vab. 2. Hookeri ; leaves very pentagonal little lobed, peduncles 6 in., fruit little 

 compressed yellowish shining with red glandular dots. — Khasia, alt. 5000-6000 ft. ; 

 H.j.^ T. — Leaves 2| in. diam., sparingly setulose. Fruit somewhat pentagonal, the 

 immediate primary ridges more defined, nearly as in H, rotundifolia. This may be- 

 a distinct species. .... 



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2. H. burmanlca, Kurz in Jaum. As. Soc. 1871, pt. ii, 60, and 1877^ 



pt. ii. 113 ; quite glabrous, leaves 5--lobed to the middle, lobes triangular acute 

 crenate, peduncles long; pedicels | in., fruit moderately compressed somewhat 

 pentagonal. 



IJpFEB Tenassbrim; alt. 3000-5000 ft. ; Brandis, Parish. 

 . Leaves 1-2A in. diam. Peduncles 1-2^ in., lower solitary leaf-opposed, upper 

 2-3-nate. Umbels many-flowered ; bracts minute. Fruit ^^ in., broadly orbicular, 

 obscurely punctate not reticulate; lateral primary ridges commissural, intermediate 

 i^pearing as slightly elevated angles; pericarp hard, thin, — Very upslt H,javanicat 

 differing in its glabrousness, 5-gonous leaves, and less compressed fruits. It may be 

 H. javanica (cf. Hiern in Oliv. FL Trop. Afr, iii. 4) when No. 1 must be called 

 H. hirsuta, Blume. 



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' 8. K. conferta, Wight Ic. ±. IQ02 -, leaves cordate crenate subentire or 

 lobed to the middle, petiole laxly pubescent, umbels subsessile, fruit somewhat 

 compressed subpentagonal. 



South Deccan'; ?ulney Mts., Wight \ Nilgherry M"ts., Gardner, Schmidt. ^ ; ? 



Leaves 1-2.J in. diam., setulose. Umbels 5-15-flowered; peduncle when visible 

 glabrous, any bracts obscure. Fruit A in., orbicular, obscurely punctate, not ^ey' 

 culate; lateral primary ridges commissural, intermediate, appearing as shghtly ^ 

 elevated angles ; pericarp hard, thin.— From the size and hairiness of the leaves 

 this has been supposed near H. javanica, differing by its sessile clusters of fnm m 

 the axils; but in the structure of its fruit it is exceedingly like H. rotundAjom , 

 with which indeed it is mixed by Wight ; and from some forms of which it nar^J 

 differs bnt by the larger more hairy leaves. ' / 



4. ft. rotundifolia, Roxh. Hart. Beng. 21, Fl Ind. ii. 38 ; leaves orbi-v 

 cular-cordate subentire or lobed to the middle or lower, pedicels 0, fruit some- 

 at compressed pentagonal. Wall Cat. 562 : DC. Pi^odr. iv. 64; J^jg}^ {i' 



i. 733. II. ZoUingeri, Molkenh. ; Miq. I c. 733. H. p'erexiV^a, -Hi 

 Ann. ii. 691. 



Plain, ascending to 4000 ft 

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 m Sikkim and Khasia, frequent. Mts. of Malabar 

 Throughout Malaya. Guinea. 



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»nmary ridges commissural (more prominent than m the tnree 

 intermediate forming elevated angles ; pericarp hard, thin. — Easily 



irom tbe three preceding species ty the much smaller leaves. The "^^^^^P^^*^^'|!^en» 

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