2 8o Roxbu rgh iacece. 



cicled at the base of the 1., bisexual, pedicels filiform; bracts 

 lanceolate, acute; perianth campanulate, subequally 6-cleft, 

 segm. subequal, biseriate, persistent; stam. 6, inserted on the 

 base of the perianth-lobes; anth. subsessile, short, broad, 

 connective produced into a lanceolate appendage, cells rather 

 distant, parallel; ov, 3-celled, cells with 2 superposed ovules, 

 style very short, stigmas 3, short, bifid, reflexed; fr. obovoid, 

 trigonous, indehiscent, pericarp thick; seeds oblong, rugose, 

 dorsally grooved, testa thin, embryo minute in cartilaginous 

 endosperm. — Monotypic. 



Lindley placed this genus in Aristolochiacece. It is very anomalous. 



T. zeylanicuB, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 44 (1788). Bim-pol, 5. 



Trichopodium zeylanicum, Thw. Enum. 291. T. cordatuni, T. inter- 

 'iiediufii, and T. am^Kstifotium, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. xviii. sub t. I543- 

 C P. 467. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 2Q7. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 290. Bot. Mag. t. 7350. 



Stem 1-8 in., wiry, flexuous, trigonous, green; 1. 2-8 in., 

 i.t)m linear-lanceolate to oblong, ovate, or triangular; base 

 cuneate, rounded, retuse, or deeply cordate, with an acute 

 sinus, and rounded or oblong lobes, veins deeply sunk above, 

 prominent beneath, with few strong, transverse venules, petiole 

 like a continuation of the stem ; pedicels 1-3 in., pendulous, 

 spreading, flexuous; fl. \-\ in- broad, nodding; perianth-tube 

 small, campanulate, segm. ovate-lanceolate, spreading; fil.very 

 short, anth. -cells diverging below, connective produced at the 

 apex into a lanceolate appendage longer than the cells, and 

 into a short 2-fid process at the base; stigmas large, 2-lobed, 

 closely appressed together, lobes pyriform; fr, \-i in. long, 

 trigonously pyriform in outline, tip narrowed, base contracted 

 into the thickened pedicel, wings thick. 



Low country in damp sandy places; rather common. Fl. March, 

 July; dark brownish-purple. 



Also in Travancore, and Pahang in the Malay I'eninsula. Gaertner's 

 specimens were from Ceylon, and probably collected by Hermann. 



CXXXI I.— ROXBURGH I ACEvE. 



ROOT.STOCK tuberous ; stem perennial, twining, slender, 

 oranching ; 1. alt. or whorlcd, simple, petioled, 3-9-veined at 

 the base, with very close cross-venules ; fl. in axillary, 

 fcw-fld. ped, or solitary; perianth inferior, 4-partite, segm. 

 biseriate, lanceolate, spreading and recurved, grooved down 



