448 DECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. Hh(Ea, 



woody parts dark brown, and pretty smooth ; young 

 shoots pendulous, round, and clothed with closely appres- 

 sed hairs. Leaves opposite, petioled from ovate to cor- 

 date, entire, tapering much toward the acute apex, having 

 the upper surface glossy, with a few appressed hairs, and 

 the under paler and more hairy, from four to eight inches 

 long, and from two to five broad. Petioles round, hairy, 

 from one to two inches long. Stipules minute, subulate, 

 pointed. Panicles terminal, and axillary, pendulous, 

 large, composed of many, opposite, diverging, simple or 

 compound racemes, and like the other parts clothed 

 with appressed brown hairs. Bractes lanceolate, conic ; 

 those of the ramifications solitary, those of the pedicel 

 tern. Flowers numerous, opposite, small, yellow, ino- 

 dorous. Calyx five-parted ; segments equal, oblong, ob- 

 tuse. Petals five, oblong, sessile, expanding ; raamelli- 

 ferous pores. Filaments ten, shorter than the petals, 

 base broad and slightly united, inserted into the recep- 

 tacle round the germ. Anthers oblong, erect. Germ 

 superior, three-celled, with one oviila in each, attached 

 to the axis. Styles three, length of the stamina. Stig- 

 ma headed. Samara three, united, singly linear, and 

 surrounded with a very large entire reticulate, scarious, 

 elliptical wing, one-celled, evalvular. Seed solitary, li- 

 near, attached near the apex to the inside of the cell. /«- 

 ^e^M>nenf5 single, thin, brown. Perisperm none. Embryo 

 inverse. Cotyledons two, equal, linear. Radicle ovate, 

 superior. 



2. H. indica. R. 



Shrubby, climbing. Leaves opposite, ovate, entire. 

 Panicles axillary and terminal. Samara linear. 

 Teling. Regrak tiga. 

 A native of the Circar mountains. 



3. H. rotundifolia. R. 



Shrubby, twining. Leaves orbicular, entire, villous 



