XXIX. MATiPIIIGIACES:. 159 



small ; lobes ovate, acute. Petals thrice as long as the lobes of the 

 calyx, oblong-elliptic, rounded at the apex. Samara orbicular or slightly 

 elliptic, I-I5 in. in diam., membranous, closely reticulately veined, 

 glabrous, pale brown; nucleus not dorsally winged or keeled. Fl. B. I, 

 V. 1, p. 421 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 34 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 29 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 265. — Flowers: Sept.-Nov. 

 Veen. Buryel. 



Throughout the Konkan, Deccan and Kanara in moist forests. Konkan : Stocks ! ; 

 island of Salsette, J acquemont , 991 ! ; near Pen, Dalzell tf- Gihi^on; Matheran, Wood- 

 row. Deccan; Bowdhan jungle, near Poena, Cooke I S. M. Country : Belgaum, 

 liifchie, l§i ! ; Londa, Woodwio. Kanaka : Yelhipur (N. Kanara), Tcdhot ! 



3. Aspidopterys canarensis, DaJz. in Bool-. luw Journ. Bot. v. 3 

 (1851) p. 37. A climbing shrub : branches with wrinkled bark, 

 glabrous. Leaves 3-4 by lg-2 in., elliptic-lanceolate, obtusely acumi- 

 nate, glabrous when adult, sparingly clothed with fusiform hairs 

 attached by the middle when very young, margins repand, base rounded 

 or subacute ; petioles ^ in. long, channelled, glabrous. Flowers in 

 loug-pedicelled umbelliform racemes from a very shoi't peduncle, which 

 is clothed with minute rusty-tomentose bracts; pedicels filiform, g-| in. 

 long, glabrous. Calyx rufous-tomentose outside ; lobes ovate, obtuse. 

 Petals oblong, obtuse, 4 times as long as the calyx. Ovary glabrate. 

 Samaras 1-1^ in. in diam., suborbicular, very membranous, pale 

 yellowish-brown, the margins entire or lobed towards the apex ; nucleus 

 with a dorsal wing. Fl. B. 1. v. 1, p. 420 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 29 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 265.— Flowers : Feb.- 

 Mar. 



The Ghats of the Konkan and Kanara ; rare. Konkan : Stocks I, Dalzell ! 

 Kanaka : Dahcll ; evergreen forests of the Supa Gh;its, N. Kanara (rare), Talbot ; 

 Kumta and Sirsi Road, Woodrow ; Nilkund (N. Kanara), Woodrow. 



Oedeb XXX. ZYGOPHYLLACE^. 



Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees ; branches usually articulate. Leaves 

 opposite or alternate (by suppression), stipulate, 2-3-foliolate or pinnate ; 

 leaflets entire, epunctate, sometimes connate ; stipules twin, persistent, 

 sometimes spiny. Peduucles usually 1-2 in the axils of the stipules, 1- 

 flovvered, rarely bracteate. Flowers hermaphrodite, regular or irregular, 

 white, yellow or red, rarely blue. Sepals 5 (rarely 4), free or rarely 

 connate at the base, imbi-icate (rarely valvate or open), in sestivation. 

 Petals 5-4 I'arely 0, hypogynous, free, imbricate or contorted, rarely 

 valvate. Disk convex or depressed, rarely annular inconspicuous or 0, 

 eglandular. Stamens as many as the petals or twice (rarely thrice) as 

 many, inserted at the base of the disk, those opposite to the petals 

 often connate at the base with the claw of the petals ; filaments 

 filiform, usually with a scale within at the base or the middle ; 

 anthers versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary sessile or rarely on 

 a short gynophore, furrowed, angled or winged, 4-5- (rarely 2-12-) 

 celled ; cells very rarely with partial transverse septa ; ovules 2 or 

 more (rarely 1), often filiform, pendulous or ascending ; raphe ventral ; 

 micropyle superior ; style simple, terminal, angular or furrowed ; stigma 

 simple, rarely discoid, or stigmas 5. Fruit various (never baccate), 



