Hiptage.] MalpightacecB. 193 



mPTAGE, Gaertn. 

 For characters, see Order. — Sp. 5 ; all in Fl. B. Ind. 



L. 4-7 in. long i. H. Madablota. 



L. 2-4 in. long 2. H. parvifolia. 



1. K. IHadablota,^ Gaertn. Fried, ii. 169 (1791). Puwak-g-ddi- 

 ya-wel, 5. 



FI. Zeyl. n. 176. Ban?tisferta betigalejtsts, L Sp. PI. 427. Gaertnera 

 racemosa, Roxb., Moon Cat. 34. Thw. Enum. 53. C. P. 659. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 418. Wight, 111. t. 50. 



A large woody climber, stems stout, cylindrical, much 

 branched, young parts silky ; 1. 4-7 in., opposite, oval or 

 lanceolate, acute at base, acuminate, acute, entire, glabrous, 

 thick, paler beneath with prominent veins, petiole very short, 

 thick, sparingly silky ; fl. rather large, f in. diam., on long, 

 2-bracteolate ped., arranged in erect, axillary, finely tomen- 

 tosc racemes about as long as 1. ; sep. oblong, obtuse, densely 

 pubescent, persistent, one with a large oblong gland at the 

 base outside ; pet. twice as long as sep., rotundate, clawed, 

 pubescent, strongly ciliate, the uppermost broader than the 

 rest ; stam. exserted, curved, declinate, one much longer than 

 the rest ; style hooked at end, longer than stam. ; nut (usually 

 only a single carpel developed) with a flat top, on which is a 

 short, triangular wing or crest, pilose, provided with 3 lateral, 

 spreading, horizontal, oblong, obtuse wings, the middle one 

 1 1 in. and two lateral about fin. long ; seed solitary, globose. 



Low country ; common in both moist and dry regions. Fl. March ; 

 white, the back petal stained with yellow. 



Also in India, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Java, and China. 



There is a specimen in Herb. Hermann, but he does not give it any 

 name. 



2. K. parvifolia, W. and A. Prod. 107 (1834). 

 Thw. Enum. 53. C. P. 1166. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 419. 



A woody climber, young parts silky ; 1. 2-4 in., lanceolate, 

 acute at both ends, entire, glabrous, shining above ; fl. smaller 

 than in the last, on very long ped., in axillary and terminal 

 racemes ; nuts (often 2 or all three developed) without any 

 wing or crest on top, each provided with 3 spreading, hori- 

 zontal wings, the middle one about i in. long and erose-bifid 

 at apex, the two lateral \-\ in., acute. 



Dry region ; rare. Jafifna (Gardner) ; Dambulla. Fl. March. 

 Also in Southern India. 



* Madablota is given as a native name for this by Sonnerat in his 

 Voyage to the E. Indies (1782), 



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