Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 195 



Banisteria hengalensis, Linn. B. uincojpsularis, Lamlc. B. teiraptera, 

 Sonnerat Voy. II, t. 135. Rheede Horb. Malab. VI, t. 69. 



In all the provinces. Distrib. British India, China, Malayan 

 Archipelago. 



3. ASPIDOPTERTS, A. JuSS. 



Shrubs, usually climbing. Leaves opposite, eglandular, quite entire ; 

 stipules 0. Floivers in simple or compound axillary and terminal pani- 

 cles ; peduncles bracteate, joiuted at the top, pedicels often minutely 

 2-bracteolate. Floivers small, yellow or white. Calyx short, 5-partite, 

 eglandular. Petals 5, not clawed, spreading or reflexed, quite entire. 

 Stamens 10, all perfect, filaments connate or distinct at the base. Ovary 

 3-lobed, lobes flattened at the back, sides winged ; styles 3, glabrous, 

 stigmas capitate. Fruit of 1-3 samaras ; nucleus sometimes crested 

 or winged at the back, and surrounded with a broad oblong or orbicular 

 wing. Seeds oblong, subterete ; embryo, straight, cotyledons equal, 

 radicle short. — Distrib. Species about 15; all tropical Asiatic. 

 Leaves ovate or obovate, more or less oi'bicu- 

 lar ; panicles slender, lax, with short few- 

 flowered lateral branches : samaras ovate, 

 narrowed and retuse at the apex ... 1 ^. concava. 



Leaves ovate or elliptic, narrowed upwards, 

 not orbicular ; panicles spreading, the bran- 

 ches umbellate, many-flowered : samaras or- 

 bicular ... ... ... ... 2 A. Heifer iana. 



1. AspiDOPTERYS cois^CAVA, A. Juss. in Archiv. Mus. Hist. Nat. Ill, 

 509. A climber ; young shoots rusty-puberulous, soon becoming glab- 

 rous. Leaves ovate-elliptic or elliptic, bluntly and shortly acuminate, 

 the base rounded or very slightly narrowed : both surfaces glabrous, 

 the lower minutely dotted when young; main nerves 4 to 6 pairs, 

 curving, ascending ; length 3 to 45 in., breadth 1"5 to 23 in., petiole 

 ■5 to *65 in. Floivers in spi'eading lateral umbellate panicles. Samaras 

 orbicular, membranous, pale, reticulate, the veins radiating, the nucleus 

 winged, about ]"25 in. in diam ; their pedicels slender, minutely brac- 

 teolate, often 1'5 in. long. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 420 ; Kurz For. 

 Flora Burmah, I, 175. Hiraea concava, Wall. PI. As. Rar. I, 13; Cat. 

 1061. JET. merguensis, Wight. 111. I, 139. 



Penang ; Curtis No. 138, 798. Distrib. Burmah. 



2. AspiDOPTERYS Helperiana, Kurz Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, 

 (1874), 137, 184; For. Flora Burma, I., 176. A climber, the young 

 shoots tawny-pubescent. Leaves membranous, orbicular-ovate to orbi- 

 cular-obovate, the apex shortly cuspidate, the base rounded or slightly 



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