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 leaves large palmate or digitate nearly glabrous, lobes serrate or again lobed/ " 

 petiolules connected at base by a serrate or lobed wing. Seem. Rev. Heder. 77 ; 

 Km-z For. Fl. i. 6*39. Gastonia palmata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 33, Fl. Ind. ii. 

 407; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 894. Gilibertia palmata, DC. P)-odr. iv. 256.; 

 Hedera ferruginea and palmata, Wall. Cat. 4909 and 4Q\0 partly. Brassaiopsia 



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A small tree 10-15 ft, the shoots with reddish hair and many prickles. 

 Leaves 1-2 ft., adult glabrous or with scattered stellate hairs on both surfaces 

 deeply palmate, in young plants often digitate ; petiole often prickly. Panicles 18 m.; 

 straggling, young with red-brown tomentura; bracts 1 in., oblong, usually deciduous ; 

 pedicels 1-1^ in. Buds exceeding \ in. diam. Fruit | hy \ in., ovoid, glabrate, ribs 





not prominent, crowned by the stout style. 



Vab. I. insignis, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 220 (sp.); leaves very large^ • 

 segments lobed or subpinnatifid. Khasia Mts.; Griffith No. 2664 (Kew Distrib.).^ . 



Vab. 2. cheirantha; leaves palmate nearly glabrous, lobes serrate, petiolules when 

 present with entire wing. Hedera ? Aralm, Jack in Wall. Cat, 4925. Chittagong, 

 alt. 0-1000 ft.; ZT./. # T. Pinang and Malay Peninsula, Porter, Sir W. Norris; 

 Wall. Cat. 4910 partly. Malacca, Griffith (No. 2661 Kew Distrib.).~^Distrib. 

 Philippines.— These are the examples (leaves only) referred in Gen. PL \. 013 to.. 

 Tt mndaica, Eegel (Gartenfl. 1864, t. 438, not of Miquel). In T. palmata the young 

 plants only, and only occasionally, produce digitate leaves; and such are often pnlr 

 imperfectly digitate, the central leaflets being frequently petioluled the lateral 

 leaflets continuous." There may be more than one species of Trevesia here includeu, 

 but no species can be founded on imperfectly digitate leaves. One sheet of Wall. 

 Cat. 4910, marked Hedera confiuens, consists of the fruit of Brassaiopsis (probably 

 B. Babila) mixed with leaves of Trevesia and constitutes the Brassaiopsis confluenh 

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Unarmed glabrous trees. Leaves digitate; leaflets large, leathery, entire; 

 ^ules united within the petiole. Panicle stout, long, branches mostly un- 

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 entire or nearly so. Petals G-18, valvate, thick. Stamens as many as the Fj^^ 

 Ova^^ cells as many as the petals ; styles very short, scarcely united as a short 

 cone. Fmit obconic and ribbed below, hemispheric above. Seed compressed \ 

 albumen uniform.— Distrib. Species 2, extending from the Deccan Pemnsula 

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1. B. capitate, C. B. Oarke-, bracts at the base of the panicle-branches 

 ovate short very persistent, petals and carpels 6-10. Ileptapleurum capitatum, 

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^ :■ Leaflets 6-8. 6 by 2^ in., elliptic-oblong subacute, somewhat rounded at the oase, 

 very coriaceous, entire; petiolules 2 in., very stout. PavicU 16 by 3-4 in., t>rancne 

 very stout.— Doubtfully separable from B. actinophyUa, Endl. (see Benth. FLAustr^-^ 

 ni. 385) by its persistent bracts, less numerous flower-parts. ■ Wight's examples ar 

 very good, but the species seems rare, as Col. Beddome has never met with it. 



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