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into a whiffed indehisccnt capsule. IFoudi/ climbers or rarely erect sliruls or trees, the 

 divides minute or wanting. 



* Stamens definite, ttsually 10, all perfect. 

 ° Style 1, rarely 2. 

 HiPTAGE, Gaertner. 

 Calyx with a single largo gland adnate to the pedicel. Carpels S-wingcd. 

 Trees or woody climbers. 



M. Bencalensis, L. S.S. Pegu and Teuasserini. 



Gaertnera racemosa, Roxb. 

 Scandcnt diffuse shrub, branched almost from the base. Leaves larger, more 

 acute and grcyish-gi-een. ISark grey. 



H. OBTUsiFOLiA, DC. C. Pegu Range and Khakyen Hills. 



A lofty climber, the stem simple, cable-like, up to 100 feet long. Leaves smaller, 

 broader, often bluish apiculate, glabrous and glossy, dark-green. Bark dark-brown. 



H. CAXDicAxs, H. f. T. Dry forests of Prome. 



II. arborca, Kz. 



Toung-htsu-kha-pan (Kurz). 



A small tree. Flowers often pale pink with the usual yellow basal blotch. 

 Capsule not ridged on top, the wings shorter and broader, obli(juely truncate. Bark 

 thick and corky, dark-brown. Growth erect, not scandcnt. 



H. SuMATEANA, lliq. jS'ankowry. 



Identical, Kurz thinks, with II. Jaranica. 



°° Styles '-i. Calyx icithout ylands. 

 AspiDOPTERYs, A. Jiiasieu. 

 Petals not clawed. Stigmas capitellate. Samaras broadly winged all round. 

 Woody climbers. 



* Gynohase persistent after the fall of the samaras, conical, acute, exscrted, 

 surrounded by 3 smooth acute disk-lobes. 



A. (Hikjea) NTTA.Ns, Roxb. JF.C. Chittagong. Bhamo. 



A. lanuginosa, A. Juss. 



Leaves tomentosc beneath, acuminate. Ovary hirsute. Xuclcus of samara with 

 or without a crest. 



A. (Hiit-KA) TojiEXTosA, Bl. TT. C. Khakyen Hills and Hills East of Toung-ngoo. 



Leaves tomentosc beneath, more or less glabrcsccut, apiculate. Ovary quite 

 glabrous. Isuclcus of samara with a crest. 



** Gi/nobase ahsnit after the fall of the samaras or minute and shorter than the 

 dish lobes, tlic thick 3-lobed often cnp-shaped disk usually wrinkled. 



X Samara nearly as broad as long, with a vertical crest between the wings. 

 A. coNCAVA, A. Juss. W.C. Tenasscrim. 



All parts, also the ovary, quite glabrous. Disk in fruit about 1 line broad. 

 A. Helfekiana, Kz. Tenasserim. 



Leaves puberulous along the nerves beneath. Disk smaller, hardly wrinkled. 



X X Samara more than twice as long as broad, not crested. 

 A. (Tkiopteris) Ixdica, Willd. Ava. Salwcea Yalley. 



A. lioxburghiana, A. Juss. 

 All parts glabrous. Ovary hirsute. 



