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free filaments which are often -woolly. It appears to be pretty widely 

 distributed in Java, and is I think without doubt Blume's Triphasia 

 sarmentosa. 



12. Paramignta, Wight. 



Erect or climbing shrubs, unarmed, or with axillary spines. Leaves 

 1-foliolate, the joint often obscure, quite entire, subcoriaceous, persistent. 

 Flowers rather large, axillary, solitary or fascicled. Calyx cupular or 

 small, and 4-5-lobed. Petals 4-5, free, imbricate or rarely induplicate- 

 valvate. Stamens 8-10, inserted round a columnar disc ; filaments free, 

 linear, equal or subeqaal, anther linear-oblong. Ovary 3-5-celled ; style 

 elongate, deciduous ; ovules in each cell solitary, or 2 obliquely super- 

 posed. Berry ovoid or subglobose, often contracted at the base, 1-5- 

 seeded, rind thick. Seeds large, oblong, much compressed, testa mem- 

 branous ; cotyledons fleshy, equal. — Distrib. — Species 6 ; tropical Indian. 



Spines short, solitary, axillary, curved, pubes- 

 cent ; flowers "7 in. long, on slender pedicels ( 1 -P. armata. var. 

 longer than themselves ... ... (. andamanica. 



Spines long, in pairs, stipular, straight, glabrous ; 



flowers *35 in. long, on short pedicels ... 2 P, longispina. 



I. Paramignta aemata, Oliver in Journ. Linn. See. V. Suppl. 

 II, 43, VAR. ANDAMANICA, King. A scandent shrub; young branches 

 slender, puberulous, speedily becoming glabrous. Leaflets elliptic or 

 elliptic-oblong, sub-acute or acute, the base rounded ; glabrous except 

 (when young) the upper surface of the midrib near the base; the 

 reticulations and the 10 to 12 pairs of spreading main nerves slightly 

 prominent on the lower surface when dry, the glandular dots also 

 rather prominent; length 4 to 5'5 in., breadth 15 to 275 in. ; petiole 

 •5 in., pubescent when young especially on the upper sm-face. Spines 

 short, solitary in the axils below the pedicels, slightly curved, pube- 

 scent. Flowers axillary, in pairs, on slender sparsely pubescent pedicels 

 longer than themselves ; pedicels 1"25 to 1*5 in. long, bracteolate at 

 the base. Calyx short, deeply divided into 5 broadly obtuse, spreadino- 

 lobes. Petals about five times as long as the calyx, linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 glabrous, '6 in. long. Stamens 10, free, almost as long as the petals : 

 the filaments rather thick and woolly below, slender and glabrous 

 towards the apex ; anthers narrowly oblong. Disc short, cylindric • 

 not broader than the ovary. Ovary ovoid ; style elongate, crowned by 

 the discoid stigma, all glabrous. Fruit globular or turbinate, smooth 

 •5 to 65 in. in diam. 



Andaman Islands : common. 



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