14 



CARDIOSPERMUM canescens. Tab. 14 



Cano-villosum, Mis biternatis, foliolis cuneato-obovatis, grosse serratis, intermedio subpetiolato, basi cuneata 

 integerrimo, lateralibus sessilibus. 



Frequens secus ripas Irawaddi, ad Pagamew, Prome, Segaen, et Avam. Etiam observavi in Martabania. Floret 



et fructificat toto anno. 



Planta annua, scandens, ramosissima, omnibus partibus pallida et incana a viUositate mollissima, copiosa. Rami elongati, filiformes, 

 graciUimi, teretes, 5-sulcati. Folia altema, patentia, biternata, circumscriptione triangularia, 2— 3-pollicaria, sumina simpliciter temata. 

 FoLiOLA cuneato-obovata, acuta, extrorsum serraturis utrinque paucis, magnis, basi integerrima et attenuata, subpetiolata, pollicaria, 

 utrinque cano-villosa et mollia, prsecipuJ; subtils ; lateralia dimidib minora, oblongata, subsessilia, basi acuta, baud attenuata. Petioli 

 graciUimi, villosi, suprk leviter sulcati, subtCis angulati, pollicares vel sesquipoUicares ; partiales dimidi6 breviores. StipulI; nuUse. 

 Pedunculi solitarii, foliis oppositi, eademque longitudine aequantes, filiformes, villosi, patentes, sulcati, apice incrassata insequaliter 

 bifidi, 6— 8-flori. Cirrhi 2, aliquot linearum a bifurcatione distantia pedunculo inserti, gracilcs, pollicares, planiusculi, integri, cir- 

 cumvolutione simplici vel duplici spiraliter torti. Flores albo-viridescentes, inodori, pedicellis brevibus, villosis suffulti. Calyx sub- 

 persistens, 4-sepalus ; sepala 2 exteriora valdfe parva, ovata, acuta ; inter lora oblonga, illis quadruple majora. Petala 4, stellatim 

 patentia, ovalia, appendicibus duabus cucullatis, petaloideis, adque basin glandulis duabus flavicantibus instructa. Capsula inflato-trigona, 

 fer& globosa, glauca, pubescens, pollicaris. 



Although much resembling Cardiospermum Halicacabum L., which I have also found in the Burmese countries, our 

 plant differs in various essential points. Instead of being smooth and dark-green, it Is of a pale, glaucous colour 

 and densely covered with soft pubescence. Its leaflets are short, obovate or cuneate, tapering downwards; in 

 the Llnnsean plant they are long and narrow, and attenuated upwards Into a long point. In colour and pubescence ^ 

 it approaches to C. Corindum L., of which I have seen specimens In the Bankslan Herbarium, gathered In the West 

 Indies by Houstoun and Rohr, but in the figure of the leaflets it differs nearly in the same manner, as it does from 

 the first-mentioned species. 



Plate XIV. Fig. 1 . 2. Flower. 2. The same dissected. 



• ABELIA. (Brown apud Abel, in Itin. Chin. Append. B. p. 376.) 



Calyx follaceus 5- vel 2-partItus. Corolla sublnfundibullformis, 5-loba. Stamina 4, didyma vel subaequalla. 

 Ovarium 3-loculare ; loculis 2 polyspermis, abortlentlbus ! tertio 1-spermo, fertlll. Pericarpium 1-spermum, exsuc- 

 cum, indehiscens, calycis limbo foliaceo, aucto coronatum. — Brown MSS. 



Classls LInnaeana, Didynamia Angiosperma. — Brown loc. cit. 



Ordo naturalis, CaprifoliacecB verte Brown; CaprifoUacearum sectio 1. Juss. Gen. p. 211, LinnceoB prox. — Brown. 



Habitus : Frutices. Folia opposita, petiolata, dentato-crenata, vel integerrima. Inflorescentia varla. — Brown. 



ABELIA TRIFLORA. (Brown MSS.) Tab. 15. 



Floribus corymbi congest! tematis : lateralibus 3-bracteatIs ; calycibus 5-partitIs ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis, acuml- 

 natis, integerrimis. — Brown. 



Habitat in montlbus meridlonallbus provlnciae Kamaon, Himalayam versus, ubi detexit plantarum collector mens 

 Robertus Blinkworth. Floret mense Mali. 

 Nomen vernaculum Kumki. 



Arbuscula. Rami oppositi, erecto-patentes, graciles, teretes, utrinque notati sulcis 3 levissimis, sursum evanescentibus, glabri, cinerei, 

 ad insertionem ramulorum dilatato-tuberculati. Hamuli ad basin circumdati squamis aliquot gemmaceis, persistentibus, rotundatis, con- 

 cavis, fuscis, ciliatis, undique imbricantibus. Folia opposita, patentia, brevfe petiolata, lanceolata vel subovato-lanceolata, a basi acuta vel 

 rotundata extrorsum attenuata, acuminata, integerrima, pilis hyalinis vix patulis ciliata, cseterum glaberrima, membranacea, 2—3- quin 

 4-poUicaria, opaca, subtiis glaucescentia, costa gracili, elevata, nervis tenerrimis, obliquis, partim reticulatis. Floralia reliquis soepius 

 longiora, basique latiora. Petiolus brevissimus, suprk sulcatus, ad margines sulci pilosulus, basi subtfls gibbosus, ad axillam partim viUosus. 

 Stipule nuUse, sed marginula obsolcta, angustissima, ramulum inter insertiones petiolorum ambiens. Flores terminales et ex alis 

 supremis, tematim fasciculati, laterales brevfe pedunculati, intermedins sessilis, ex albo dilutissimJ; rosei, suaveolentes ; fasciculi geminati ' 



