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remote serratiires or shallow lobes ; petiolules. 1 in. Panicle much as in H. ela^u7?t, 

 nearly glabrous or more or less pubescent or stellately woolly. 



- ^' »• rostratum, Bedd. FL Sylv. ii. p. ]22 ; leaflets glabrous lanceo- 

 late or elliptic narrowed at both ends coriaceous^ tertiaiy nerves obscure above, 

 petals glabrous or nearly so. Hedera rostrata, Wight Ic. t. 1013. Agahua 

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>^ NiMHiRis; Wight; Gardner, alt. 7000 ft.; C, B, Clarke. (The Sikkim locality 

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A small branched tree. Leaflets 4i by \\'-2 in., entire or denticulate; petiolules 

 1-1 in. Panicle 8 in., branches often bearing one umbel each only ; bracts -shortly 

 ovate, persistent ; pedicels |-| in., glabrous or stellately pubescent, springing from 

 a dense tuft of permanent bracteoles. ' '" -' ". , ,. ;.= ,. 



i,,- ^^^' ^^icrautha; flowers and fruit smaller, pedicels and bracteoles glabrous. — 

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 ■ Aclimbing glabrous shrub. im/e2'5 |-U by |-f in., narrowed at the base sub- 

 resile, broadest at the -very- summit and there distinctly emarginate or 2-lobed, 

 ^erves on both surfaces raised. Pedicels \ in., spreading ; bracts or early fug^icious. 

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 rowed at both ends, pedicels glabrous or often rusty stellately woolly. Hedera 

 racemosa, Wight Ic. t. lOlb ] TMoaites Enum. \Z2. Agalma racemosum, &ew. ,| 

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 300O-5OOO ft. ; Beddome. Cetxon, alt. 3000-5000 ft. ; Thwaites. / ■ * 



/; A large tree. Leaflets 6 by 2i in., elliptic or lanceolate, subobtuse or cuspidate. 

 Coriaceous, tertiary nerves above obscure; petiolules often l-lj in. Panicle 

 ^12 in., the ends of the branches bracts and pedicels rusty pubescent' while young; 

 tracts shortly ovate, persistent; pedicels \ in. Flowera at first often umbelled, the 

 fruits usually distinctly racemed. — Closely allied to the preceding species: some of 

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S77 ; Wight IlLt. 118. P. elliptica and macrantha, Miq. Fl. l^id.Bat i. pt. i. 



756. Hedem venosa. Wall. Cat. 4923. IL terebinthacea 7ra^. Cat 4920 



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