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Throughout tropical and subtropical India, from the North-west Himalata to 

 the South Dbccak and Singapobk. — Distrib. Malaya and Tropical Australia, 



A small glabrous tree or climbing shrub. Leaflets 4 by 2 in., glabrous, entire, 

 Acuminate, base subacute or rounded ; petiolules 1 in. or larger. Panicle small or 

 large; lateral branches sometimes 10 in., compound; bracts caducous, large, ovate, 

 liairy in the young panicle; branchlets and pedicels glabrous or pubescent; pedicels 

 ^-\ in. Buds varying in size, and the disc after flowering is very prominent or not. 

 — The panicle branches become more delicate and the buds smaller in Burma, where 

 the plant is exactly Paratropia elliptica, Miq. ; while at Malacca the form collected 

 by Dr. Maingay (No. 680) is P. micranthaj Miq. 



Var. mmroyhylla. Wall. Cat. 4918 (sp.) ; leaflets 6-8 in.— Amherst; Wallich. 



9. H. stellatum, Gaartn. Fruct. ii. 472, t. 178; leaflets obovate ob- 

 tuse. Seem. Rev. Heder. 45. Hedera obovata, Wight Ic. t. 1011. H. Vahlii, 

 Thwaitei Enum, 132. H. terebintliacea, Vahl Symb. iii. 42; DC. Prodr. vf- 

 265 ; Wall. Cat. 4920 partly. Paratropia terebinthacea, Am. Pugill. '20. 



SovTH Deccan Penixstila ; near Coimbatore, Wight. Nixghiri Mts., HohenacJcer 



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No. 1472. Ceylon, abundant up to 3000 ft. alt. ; Thwaites, 



Altogether resembles H. venulosum except as to the obtuse obovate leaflets, and 



may be merely a South Indian and Ceylon form of it. 



10. B. subulatum. Seem. Rev. Heder, 42; leaflets often 4-3 



oblong 



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Paratropia subulata, 



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DiSTRiB. Sumatra, ' ' , r.^i 



/v Branchlets glabrous. Leaflets 5^ by 2\ in., narrowed at both ends, glabrous or 

 rarely with scattered stellate woolly hairs beneath, entire or with a few teeth. |^^'^/f 

 in flower 10 by 1 in., iti fruit nearly 3 in. broad, when young with scattered whit^^ 

 stellate wo(jl; bracts i in.V lanceolate, stellately white woolly, soon deciduous; 

 branches usually very short, sometimes 1 in. ; pedicels J-^ in,, always stellately to- 

 mentose when young. Fruit pentiigonal, disc large, prominent.— May this be a state^ 

 of /f. heterophyUum'i, - ^ 



tt Leaves conaceous, tertiary ne7*ves not p7*ominent above. 



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B. Wallichianum 





glabrous, buds | in. broad. H. exaltatum, Seem. Rev. Heder. 44. Paratropia 

 Wallichiana, W. i^ A. Prodr. 377. Hedera exaltata, Thwaites Enmn. 44. 11. 

 Wallichiana, i)«/;:. i^ Gibs. Bomb. FL 108.-Araliad sp. 19, Herh Ind. Or. 

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BovTK Deccan PiiiNiNsrLA; Kurg, Wight. Nilghibis, alt. 4000-6000 ft., near 

 Canoor, C. B. Clarke. Cetlon, alt. 4000-6000 ft. ; Thwaites. ' , , 



A large glabrous tree. Leaflets 5-10 by 2^-4 in., oblong or elliptic, acute, rounaea 

 at the base, very leathery. Panicle oblong, about 12 by 3 in, ; buds glabrous, unusuauy 



large. 



pentagonal 



K. kbasianum, C. B. Clarke. ; pedicels i in. stellately toment 

 ■^ung, buds i in. broad. H. WaUichiauum "— """ "'"^'"'- ^ 



Araliad sp. 20, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f 





Bhotan, Mishmee; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2694). Khasia Mts., alt. 3000j 



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Leaflets attain 11 by 3 in., usually much smaller, narrow-oblong Of lan^eomic, 



acuminate, glabrous, the base sonaetiines almost rounded. Very coriaceous, ®^^^^®,'. * i- 



tiolules often l| in. Panicle with white stellate tomentum on the branches P®*^^^^^ 



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