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petiolafce, stipules broad, acuminate, deciduous. Flowers in axillary and 

 terminal 2-3-chotomously branched cymose panicles, with or without 

 bracteoles. Calyx-tube campanulate or turbinate; the limb 4 or 5 

 toothed, persistent. Gorolla funnel-shaped, its throat glabrous or vil- 

 lous ; 4 or 5 lobes of the limb with infiexed crenulate margins, their 

 apices sometimes 3-lobed, spreading. Stamens 4 or 5, linear-oblong, in- 

 serted in the tube of the corolla by very short filaments. Ovary 2-cell- 

 ed ; stigmas 2, slender, twisted. Ovules one in each cell, basal, erect. 

 Fruit compressed or globose, with thin shining fragile epicarp, separat- 

 ing early from the 2 pyrenes ; pyrenes orbicular or ovoid, dorsally com- 

 pressed, with or without wings, each containing a single compressed seed 

 with membranous testa adherent to the pyrene ; cotyledons large, thin, 

 cordate; radicle small, inferior. — Distrib. Species 10 to 12 mostly in 

 tropical Asia, one in Brazil. 



Fruit compressed, orbicular; pyrenes flat, winged, with 

 radiating ridges on the dorsal surface : — 

 Leaves and the branches of the panicles always op- 

 posite ... ... ... ... ... 1. P.foetidar 



Leaves and the branches of the panicles often in 

 verticels of three ... ... ... 2. P. verticellafa. 



Fruit globular; pyrenes cupj>ed, with neither marginal 



wings or dorsal ridges ... „, ... 3. P. tomentosa. 



1. Paederia fobtida, Linn. Mant. I. 52. Glabrous or puberulous; 

 branches thinner than a goose-quill, dark-coloured and compressed 

 when dry. Leaves ovate to lanceolate, the apex acute or apiculate, the 

 base usually rounded or slightly cordate but sometimes cuneate ; both 

 surfaces cinereous or olivaceous-brown when dry, and finely reticulate^ 

 glabrous except for the occasional pubescence on the leaf nerves beneath 

 and the tufts in their axils ; main-nerves 4 or 5 pairs, oblique, faint ; 

 length 2 to 3'5 in. ; breadth 1 to 1"5 in. ; petioles '5 to 1'5 in. ; stipules 

 broadly ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, often bifid, under "1 in. in length. 

 Flowers pink, '35 in. long, shortly pedicellate, in lax spreading trichoto- 

 mous (often scorpioid) cymes arranged in divergent axillary and ter- 

 minal panicles from 3 to 15 in. long and usually bearing leaves like those 

 of the stem but smaller; bracteoles minute, linear. Calyx less than '1 

 in. long, campanulate, its mouth acutely 4- to 5-toothed. Corolla fun- 

 nel-shaped, three times as long as the calyx, usually pubescent ; the lobes 

 of the limb crenulate, short, spreading only slightly, Fricit '4 to '5 in. 

 across, orbicular; epicarp with 5 curved vertical veins in each side, 

 thin, shining; pyrenes orbicular, with pale marginal wings, the centre 

 with many bold radiating ridges on the dorsal surface, nearly smooth 

 on the ventral. Wall. Cat. 6247, excl. E.; Roxb. FI. Ind. I. 683 ; id. ed. 



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