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CONVOLVULACEAE. — PORANA 361 
According to C. B. Clarke P. truncata Kurz (in Jour. Bot. XI. 136 [1873]) “ is 
intermediate between that species and P. malabarica.” It was collected in Burma 
(Pegu and Martaban), and I have not seen a specimen. Kurz mentions Griffith’s 
No. 5876 from East Bengal as related to his species. I have a specimen of this 
before me, bearing only fruits which are very similar to those of P. malabarica, but 
the sepals are more ovate, rather acute at the apex, and more contracted at the base; 
the fruits appear to be more globular. 
8. Porana racemosa Roxburgh, Hort. Bengal. 13 (nomen nudum) (1814); 
Fl. Ind. II. 41 (1824); ed. 2, I. 466 (1832). — D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 98 (1825). — 
Choisy in De Candolle, Prodr. IX. 436 (1825). — Wight, Ill. Ind. Bot. Il. t. 168°, 
fig. 9 (1850); Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. IV. t. 1376 (1850). — Kurz in Jour. Bot. XI. 
137 (1873). — Clarke in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. IV. 222 (1883). — Hemsley in 
Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 166 (1890). — Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 544 (1900); 
in Not. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh, VII. 387 (Pl. Chin. Forrest.) (1913). — Koorders, 
Ezcursionsfl. Java, IIL. 114 (1912). 
Porana cordifolia Ledebour, Ind. Hort. Dorp. 1824, suppl. 6, fide Choisy. 
Porana dichotoma Hamilton ex D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 99 (pro synon.) 
(1825). 
Dinetus racemosus Hamilton apud Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. II. t. 127 (1825). 
Porana elegans Zollinger & Moritzi in Natuur. en Geneesk. Archief, II. 571 
(fide Koorders) (1845). 
CHINA. Western Hupeh: near Ichang, A. Henry (No. 2595); Nanto and 
mountains to northward, A. Henry (No. 3062); without precise locality, A. Henry 
(Nos. 2905, 4357, 7004). Yunnan: Mi-lé, A. Henry (No. 9954; large climber, 
white flowers). a 
INDIA. East Bengal: “ Mont. Khasia, reg. trop., alt. 2-5000 ped.,” J. D. 
Hooker & T. Thomson; without locality (No. 5877!, Herb. Griffith.). Sikkim: 
“Teg. trop., alt. 24000 ped.,” J.*D. Hooker. Sunda Islands: Timor, Futu- 
naba Hills, 1881-2, H. O. Forbes (No. 4104). 
This is a widely distributed half-shrubby or almost herbaceous climber, the 
x: Snow-créeper ” of the English, according to Clarke, “ one of the most beautiful 
of Indian plants.” The type was collected in Nepal. 
. 9. Porana grandiflora Wallich in Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. II. 41 (1824). — Choisy 
in De Candolle, Prodr. IX. 436 (1845). — Kurz in Jour. Bot. XI. 138 (1873).— 
C. B. Clarke in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. IV. 221 (1883). 
INDIA. Sikkim: “reg. trop. 5-7000 ped.,” J. D. Hooker. Nepal: Katu- 
manda, mountains of Shivapoor (Sheopore) (type, ex Roxburgh, which seems to 
be the same as Wallich’s No. 1324). 
A very distinct species, the tube'of the flowers of which is a little enlarged at the 
point of insertion of the stamens, which are in one row. 
10. Porana stenoloba Kurz in Jour. Bot. XI. 136 (1873). — C. B. Clarke in 
Hooker f., FI. Brit. Ind. IV. 221 (1883). : 
INDIA. Sikkim: “not unfrequent along the post-road from Kersiang to 
Darjeeling at 5-6000 feet elevation, on metamorphic rocks," October 1868, S. 
Kurz (type, ex Kurz). 
According to Clarke “ this differs from P. grandiflora in the shallowly cordate 
leaves, the remarkable bracts, the color of the flowers, and the exceedingly narrow 
fruit-sepals.” The author and Clarke do not say anything about the stamens and 
the riti and I have not seen a specimen. This species needs further 
observation. 
