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ing, compound; bracts J in., oblong, acuminate, caducous; pedicels i in. in fruit.' 

 ^ Fndt a^oho&e, hardly pentagonal, disc depressed conical, not pentagonal. - ^ 



•V "i*^' "•' ^^P'^^l^*®^, C. -B. Clarke; panicle pubescent, flowers sessile, 

 bracts deciduous. H. capitatum, Seejn. Heder, 45 partly. 



^ MiUAccA ; GriffiiA (No. 2700 Kew Distrib.). 



Apparently a large tree. Leaflets 14 by4| in., oblong-elliptic, acuminate, rounded 

 or little narrowed at the base, coriaceous, entire, shining, glabrous abore, with scat- 

 tered loose woolly hairs that easily wear ofiF beneath; petiolules 3-4 in., stout. Pant- 

 <^fe 15 in. with stellate pubescence from the bage. Heads oi fruit globose, close 

 packed without bracteoles. Fruit much longer than broad, 5-8-rib^d, stellately 

 white-tomentose, crowned by the broad short cluster of styles ; disc enlarged, some- 

 'vvhat corky.— Very unlike Paratropia capitata W. & A. (a Brassaia)^ with which, 

 regardless of geography, Dr. Seaman united it. , 



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Leaves twice digitate or digitately decompound. 



14. R. IxeteToyihyllvL'Bi^ Seem. Rev, Heder, 42 \ leaves twice digitate, 

 panicle narrowlv oblong or linear stellatelv white-pubescent Hedera hetero- 

 phylla, Wall Cat 4919; G. Dm. Gen, Syst iii. 394, Paratropia heteropbylla, 

 Pred Epimd. Bot, 250 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 761. 



^ Pinakg; Wallick. — Distrib. Java. 



^vBranchletS glabrous. Leaves digitately 3-4-petioluled, each petiolule bearin 

 3-4 rarely 5 leaflets ; leaflets 4-5 by 1-3 in., oblong or elliptic, acuminate, roundei 

 OP somewhat acute at the base, glabrous, entire, membranous ; tertiary nerves promi- 

 nent above, secondary petiolules much varying in length from ^1 J in. at the same 

 cluster. Panicle 8-12 by 1-3 in., branches slender, little compound; bracts ^ in., 

 ovate-oblong, stellately white tomentose, caducous or sometimes persistent. Flowers 

 small. Fruit pentagonal. 



15. H. bltematum, C. B. Clarke; leaves digitately decompound or 



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twice pinnate with ternate leaflets at each node of the rhachis. 



AIalacca; Maingay^o, 684. . ^^ 



Asmall tree; truAk about 3 ft.{Mamgay\ Leaflets 5 by i in., 1 in ear-oblong, 



y^e in, Fa7ncle 8 by Uin., branches iiardly dmaea, wicn scactert-u at».ii««. i.-^-, 

 tracts deciduous ; pedicels less than i in. Flowers small, altogether of a m-Uepta- 



P^<^urum.~M.3,j prove a form of K heterophyllum, 



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Hkdkra mollis ; Wall. Cat. 4924 ; the example consists of leaves only ; it may be 

 ^^ptapleurum Cephcdotes above. 



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r Shi-ubs or small trees, prickly or unarmed glabrous or stelkt^W 

 leaves palmate or digitate ; i^tioles often united by a wing at their base , sti- 

 p^es united within the petiole or obsolete. Floivers polygamous, la^Jf Jorthe 

 Order : un,b.T« ,.n.,Vl.^ • npdicels not iointed under the flower; bracts small 



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8-12, ralvate, somewhat 

 Stamens as many as the 

 united into a small boas 

 Seeds compressed ; aTbu- 



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