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ovate-oblong, subacute wheu iu flower, all much and almost equally 

 enlarged up to -I by | in. or even more wheu in fruit, often tinged with 

 pink, glabrous, persistent, strongly nerved and reticulately veined be- 

 tween the nerves. Corolla ratber more than | in. long, divided about 

 i-way down into 5 ovate acute lobes. Stigma shortly 2-lobed. Capsules 

 I in. long, subcylindric, scarious, slightly depressed at the apex round 

 a raised somewhat pyramidal ceutre. Seed 5 in. long, oblong, reddish- 

 brown, glabrous. Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 172 ; 

 Peter, in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. v. 4, 3 A, p. 24, fig. 11, C ; Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 1, p. 328. Parana I'acemosa, Grab. Cat. 

 p. 133 (not oi Eoxb.); Dalz. & Gibs. p. 162.— Flowers : Oct. VsRif. 

 £Jiau7'i. 



KoKKAN : Stocks I, Law I; Ma,therai,n, H. M. Birdwood. Deccan : V-Arghid, BalzcUl ; 

 Mahableshwar, Cooke I, H. M. Birdwood ; Panchgani, Woodrowl — Disirib. India 

 (W. Peninsula). 



Parana panicalata, Eoxb. Cor. PI. v. 3 (1819) p. 31, t. 235, is a powerful 

 climber cultivated in gardens. Its small white flowers occur in large 

 panicles terminating every branchlet with innumerable flowers which 

 give the plant the appearance of being covered with snow. In Poona 

 the panicles of flowers are used effectively for table decoration. The 

 plant is not indigenous in tbe Bombay Presidency, but is so in many 

 parts of India. PI. B. I. v. 4, p. 222 ; Firminger, Man. Gard. ed. 3, 

 p. 509. — Flowers : Sept.-Oct. 



4. NEUROPELTIS, Wall. 



Large scandent shrubs, glabrous except the inflorescence which is 

 usually rufous-tomentose or rufous-pubescent. Leaves alternate, coria- 

 ceous, petiolate. Flowers small, numerous, pedicellate, in racemes 

 which are axillary or subpaniculate towards the ends of the branches ; 

 bract under the calyx inconspicuous in flower, much enlarged in fruit'. 

 Sepals suborbicular, subequal, scarcely enlarged iu fi'uit. Corolla 

 broadly campanulate, deeply 5-fid ; lobes induplicate-valvate in bud. 

 Stamens attached near the base of the corolla, exserted or included ; 

 filaments filiform ; anthers oblong. Ovary imperfectly 2-celled, 4- 

 ovulate ; styles 2, distinct, short, thick ; stigmas large, globose. Cap- 

 sule globose, 4-valved, 1-seeded, sessile or shortly stalked, almost in the 

 middle of the flat enlarged bract. Seed globose, glabrous, albuminous ; 

 cotyledons plicate. — Disibib. Species 2, the following and an African 

 one. 



1. Neuropeltis racemosa, Wall, in Eoxh. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, v. 2 

 (1824) p. 43. A large woody climber ; stems glabrous in age. Leaves 

 coriaceous, 3-4| by l|-2i in., elhptic or ovate-oblong with, a long or 

 short acumination, entire, glabrous, base usually acute; main nerves 

 6-9 pairs ; petioles |-| in. long. Flowers in straight rusty-pubescent 

 racemes 2-4 in. long, which are axillary or from the scars of fallen 

 leaves, solitary or 2-3 together ; pedicels short, densely rufous-hairy ; 

 bract beneath the calyx about -^ in. long at flowering time, ovate, acute, 

 densely rufous-hairy ; at fruiting time scarious, ultimately glabrous, 

 veined, suborbicular, enlarged to 1-2 in. in diam. with a rounded or 



