Pyrenacaniha.] Olactnecs. 2 6 



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cyme about 3111. long, buds nearly globular; cal. pubescent; 

 pet. lanceolate, acute, hairy on both sides ; ov. flask-shaped, 

 hairy ; drupe \-% in., oblong-ovoid, obtuse at both ends, 

 minutely apiculate, smooth, purple. 



Var. /S. Championiana, Alters, 1. c. (sp.). 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 589 {M. oblonga, Miers). 



L. larger, thinner in texture and with fewer lat. veins, buds 

 ovoid. 



Moist region from sea-level to 7000 ft. Fl. April ; yellow. 



Also in Southern India. 



The true M.fa:tida, Miers, confined to the Nilgiris, is figured in Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. t. 141. 



I cannot see more than one variable species in the Ceylon plants. 

 Miers' AI. ovata is based on Gardner, n. 99 (from Peradeniya), his M. 

 Gardneriana on Gardner, n. 98 (from N. Eliya), which is the common 

 montane form with smaller leaves. Var. j8. is scarcely more worth dis- 

 tinction. 



The flowers and, to a less extent, the leaves, have a strong foetid 

 odour, whence the native name. 



10. PVREMACANTKA, Hook. 



Climbing shrubs ; fl. minute, unisexual, dioecious, inono- 

 cJilaniydeous ; perianth ganwpliyllous, deeply 4-fid ; male fl. : — • 

 stam. 4, distinct, alt. with per.-lobes, ov. abortive ; fem. fl. : — 

 ov. I -celled, with 2 collateral pendulous ovules, style none, 

 stigma sessile, with many radiating branches ; fruit a drupe, 

 stone thin, provided on the inner surface with numerous, 

 obtuse, horizontal spines penetrating the endosperm ; seed 

 solitary, embryo in centre of fleshy endosperm, cotyledons 

 large, foliaceous. — Sp. 6. 



P. volubilis, Hook. Bot. Misc. ii. 108 (1831). 



Baill. in DC. Prod. xvii. 20. Thw. Enum. 290. C. P. 1024. 



Omitted in Fl. B. Ind. Hook. Bot. Misc. ii. tt. Supp. 9 and 10. 



A scandent shrub, with very slender stems and a milky 

 juice, branches filiform, slightly rough, young parts pubescent; 

 1. 3-5 in., narrowly lanceolate-oblong, tapering to narrow 

 truncate base, which is provided with a small gland at each 

 corner, tapering also to acute mucronate apex, somewhat 

 undulate, entire or with shallow, distant, angular teeth each 

 tipped with a gland, glabrous above, harsh with stiff adpressed 

 hair beneath, petiole f-^ in., flexuose, glabrous; fl. minute 

 sessile, male in lax, fiUform, axillary spikes about 2 in., fem. 

 about 8-10, in a little head on a filiform, axillary peduncle 

 J— |in. ; per.-leaves acute, spreading in male, deflexed in fem.; 



