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Quite glabrous. Stem stout, climbing. Leaves 3-8 by 1} to 2 in., linear-oblong, 
acuminate, base acute; petiole 4 in. Umbels terminal and axillary, very many-fid., 
peduncle 1-2 in.; pedicels slender, as long. Sepals small, oblong. ` Corolla-lobes 3-3 
in. long, tube bearded at the base. Column }in. long. Fruit not seen. 
Sect. II. Pterostelma. Corolla reflexed, lobes longer than broad. 
Column sessile, obconic; coronal-processes laterally compressed, semi-cordate, 
2-winged, with an erect subulate point in the inner angle. ProcosTEMMA, Bl. 
2. H. acuminata, Benth. in Gen. Pl. ii. 777. H. Griffithiana, Dene. 
mss. Pterostelma acuminatum, Wight Contrib. 39; Wall. Cat. 8170; Dene. in 
DC. Prodr, viii. 633. 
Kuasia Mrs.; alt. 2,000 ft., Wallich, &e: 
Quite glabrous. Stem stout, 1-2 ft., subscandent and pendulous. Leaves 3-4 by 
1-1} in., elliptic-lanceolate, nerves obscure; petiole }-} in. Umbels terminal and 
axillary, few-fld. ; peduncle j in., pedicels 1 in. Sepals linear-oblong, obtuse, ciliolate. 
Corolla-lobes 1 in., glabrous, tube puberulous within. Corona shining. Fruit not seen. 
Sect. III. Ancistrostemma. Corolla reflexed, lobes longer than broad. 
Column sessile; coronal-processes gibbous and 2-lamellate below, produced 
upwards into long erect points each with a 2-fid incurved hooked tip. 
3. H. Edeni, King in Herb. Hort. Calc. Centrostemma sp., Herb. Ind. 
Or. H. f. & T. 
Stxxim Hraraya, alt. 3-6000 ft., Herb. Griffith, J. D. H., &c. . u 
Stem rather slender, climbing and rooting. Leaves 3-4 by 1-1} in., elliptic- or 
obovate-lanceolate, obtusely caudate-acuminate, base acute, thinly coriaceous, puberu- 
lous or glabrate beneath; petiole 3; in. pubescent. Umbels terminal; peduncles 1—3 
in., pedicels 1 in. Sepals small, ovate, obtuse. Corolla pubescent within; lobes } in. 
long, subacute. Coronal-processes horny, deeply grooved down the back, much ex- 
ceeding the anthers, Follicles 4 in. long, slender, straight. Seeds à in. long. 
Secr. IV. Buhoya. Corolla-lobes broader than long, spreading or re- 
curved. Column sessile or subsessile; coronal-processes stellately spreading, 
inner angle acute or produced into an erect or recurved simple spine. 
* Inflorescence terminal, or terminal and axillary. 
T Leaves terete, 
4. H. linearis, Wall. in Wight Contrib. 37, and Cat. 8155; ends of 
branches and umbels hirsute, leaves 1-2 in. cylindric terete acute, umbels 
terminal sessile many-fld., corolla glabrous or papillose within, coronal-processes 
horizontal. Don Prodr. 130; Dene. in DC. Prodr. viii. 637. 
T SusrRoricAL HrMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 3-6000 ft, J. D. H., 
reutler, . 
Stem pendulous, 1 ft. and more, flaccid. Leaves 1-2 by } in. diam., straight, 
midrib glabrous or hirsute; petiole very short. Pedicels 1 in., and linear-oblong 
calyx hirsute. Corolla 4-4 in. diam., and corona white.  Fo/licles 23 in., slender, 
straight, pericarp thin glabrous. Seeds à in. long.— The following varieties are so 
identical in habit and inflorescence, that I cannot doubt their being conspecific. 
Wight's character is drawn from specimens sent him by Wallich consisting of leaves 
of one plant (linearis) and a detached flower of another, of which specimens (also 
detached) are fastened on Wallich’s sheet of linearis, and which have glabrous pedicels 
and minute glabrous sepals; these may belong to another species. 
Var. nepalensis; comóla papillosely puberulous within, coronal-lobes ovate 
flattened above concave” neath.— Nepal. 
Van. sikkimensis ;* pua glabrous within, coronal-lobes longer narrower sub- 
eylindrie, Bot, Mo/ 9182, —Sikkim. : 
