598 nrilJ/J, ITS PEOPLE AXD PPlODUCTIOXS. 



-::■ ic- Zearcs all aUernate. 

 ° Flowers sJwrfli/ racemose, timbellafe or cori/miose at the ends of the Jong peduncles. 

 I. TAVorANA, Bth. Tenasserim. 



Leaves petiolcd. Flowers small, witli a long, straight or curved sj^ur. 



°° Peduncles 1- or rarely 2- or 3-flowered, shorter than the leaves. 



X Spur usually much shorter than the corolla. 



f Flowers 1-2 inches long. 



*I. B.a,s\MiNA, L. Cultivated and in rubbishy places 



/. Ifalai/ensls, Griff. near villages. 



Stem succulent, the thickness of a goose-quill. Leaves narrow, pubescent or 

 glabrescent, shortly petioled. Spur often very long and slender. 



I. Paeishii, H. f. On limestone rocks near ilaulmain. 



Stem the thickness of the finger, short. Leaves elliptic or ovate, glabrous, 

 long-petioled. 



f f Flowers small. 

 I. CAriiLirES, H. f. and Th. On limestone rocks near Maulmain. 



Glabrous, slender. Leaves long-petioled, narrow. 



X X Spur longer than the corolla. 

 I. vioLJEFioRA, H. f. Maulmain. 



Yeiy slender, glabrous. Capsule puberulous. Flowers rather large. 



I. ABGTJTA, H. f. 



Htdeocera, Blame. 



All petals free. Brupes sa]ipy, indehisceut. 



H. (IjirATiExs) N-ATAxs, Villd. Ditches and water-courses in Pegu. 



R. trijlora, W. A. 



Order MALPIGHIACEiE. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, regular or irregular. Calyx usually 5-pai-tite, imliri- 

 cate, or valvate, one or more of the 5 segments furnished with a large gland, rarely 

 absent. Petals 5-clawed, or sessile, imbricate. Disk obsolete. Stamens 10 or more, 

 hypogynous or nearly so. Filaments free, or more or less basally connate. Anthers 

 2-celled. Fruit a 1-3-winged samara, or capsule, or drupe. Albumen none. Trees 

 or shruTis with opposite simple leaves. Stipules minute or none. Flowers in axillary 

 or terminal inflorescences. 



MALFIGSI£A!:. 



Carpels nerer tcinged, free or united into a fleshy or drupaceous I- to S-celled fruit. 

 Usually erect shrubs, with opposite leaves and connate stipules. 



MALPiunLi, Linnmus. 



Calyx 6-10-glandular. Filaments at base glabrous. Ovary eutire, 2-4-celled, 

 styles terminal and free. Drupes containing 3 or fewer crested nuts. 



*!Xr. cocciGEEA, L. S. Chittagong (wild and cultivated as 



M. heteranthera, Wight. an ornamental shrub). 



jiiRiE.r:. 



Samaras 1-3, obliquely accumlent to a short pyramidal torus, or the carpels united 



