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armed with many long, nearly slraiglit, sliarp spines. See<ls oblong, 

 •5 in. or more long. Wall Cat. 1144 ; Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 i. 377 ; Kuvz For. Fl. Burm. i. 151 ; Pierre FK Forest. Cocli-Chine, t. 

 206, figs. 1 to 8. B. grandijolia, DC. Prodr. i. 486. H. nejjalensis, 

 Turcz. in Bull. Mosc, 1858, 207. 



Andaman Islands. Distrib. Brit. India, China, Cochin-China. 



7. B. Andamanensis, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1871, ii. 47. 

 A woody climber: young branches scaberulous. Leaves sub-orbicular, 

 crenate and pahiiately 3 to 5-lobed, the lobes acuminate ; or ovate- 

 rotund, acuminate and irregularly serrate-crenate and not lobed ; the 

 base always deeply cordate, 5 to 7-nerved ; lateral nerves about 5 pairs, 

 opposite, prominent beneath as are the midrib and straight transverse 

 veins ; both surfaces spai'sely pubescent at first, but afterwards glabrous. 

 Gymes umbellate, 2 or 3 times bi-anched, spreading, many-flowered, 

 solitary, or 2 or 8 in a fascicle, axillary : the common peduncle stout, 

 •6 to "75 in. long ; secondary peduncles about the same length, tertiai'y 

 half as long : flower-pedicels '15 in., all slender and slightly pubescent. 

 Sepals ovate acuminate or deltoid, puberulous externally. Petals with 

 2 obscure lateral lobes, and a long lanceolate inflexed middle lobe. 

 Staminodes truncate. Capsule globose, less than 1 in. in diam , glaucous 

 when young, armed with a few unequal, rather short, smooth, stiff spines. 

 Kurz in Flora, 1871, p. 277 ; For. Fl. Br. Burm. i. 152 ; Mast, in Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 377; Pierre Fl. Forest. Coch-Chine, t. 207, figs. 1 to 9.. 



Andaman Islands. Distrib. Burmah, Siam, Cochin-Chiua. 



11. COMMEESONIA, Forsk. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves simple, oblique. Inflorescence cymose, 

 terminal or axillary or leaf opposed. Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 5, concave 

 at the base, prolonged into a long strap-shaped appendage at the apex. 

 Fertile stamens 5, opposite the petals ; antliers subglobose, 2-celled, 

 cells diverging ; staminodes 5, opposite to the sepals, lanceolate. Carpels 

 5, opposite to tlie sepals, connate ; styles connate ; ovules 2-6. Capsule 

 loculicidally 5-valved, covered with bristly hairs. Seeds ascending, 

 albuminous, strophiolate ; cotyledons flat, radicle next the hilura. 

 Distrib. A genus of about 8 species, some of which are natives of the 

 Malay peninsula and Archipelago, others of Australia. 



C. PLATTPHTLLA, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 603 (note). A low tree; young 

 branches softly rusty-tomentose. Leaves membranous, inequilateral, 

 ovate-acuminate, irregularly dentate-serrate ; the base more or less 

 cordate, one side sub-auriculate, upper surface sparsely and minutely 



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