JaBMIKUM.] OLF.ACE&. gl 



linear, about as long as the pedicelB. Calyx-teeth -,' D £ in. long, lift ar 

 or subclavate, hairy. Corolla glabrous, tube about £ in. long ; 1 

 usually 9, ^-J in. long, linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate. Car 

 usually solitary, £ in. long ; ellipsoid, black when ripe. 



Western portion of Dehra Dun and along the southern side of the Siwalik 

 range, also in the submontane tracts of Kthilkhand and N. Oudh. 

 Flowers during April and May. Distrib. Bengal, Cent, and S. India, 

 ascending to 3,000 feet en the Himalaya. The scandent form (Rox- 

 burgh's J. latiidivm) is also found in Dehra Dun and in other parts 

 of the area. It differs in no ether respect from the type. 



3. J. brevipetiolatum, Duthie in Brandts Indian Trees, p. 450. 



A shrub or small tree. Young parts and branches of inflorescence 

 sparingly pubescent. Stems obtusely quadrangular, smooth. Leaves 

 simple, opposite or suboppositel shortly petioled ; blade 8-4| in. long 

 narrcwly lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, sub- 

 coriaceons and quite globuse ; margii-s entire, slightly recurved, 

 midrib stoat and prominent beneath ; main lateral rerves 8-10 pairs, 

 slender , forming intermarginal loops ; petiole about 4 in. long. Ihwers 

 white, arranged in lax terminal corymb< se or panicled cymes ; pedicels 

 about i in. long; bracts much shorter than the pedicels, lanceolate- 

 acuminate. Calyx a in. long, almost glabrous, tube subhemispheric ; 

 teeth about as long as the tube, elongating in fruit, linear or subclavate, 

 thick. Corolla i in. long, tube twice as long as the narrowly elliptic 

 obtuse lobes. Fruit oval, about £ in. long, dark purplish-brown when 

 ripe. 



Forests in the Pilibhit district of Rohilkhand and in the Kheri district 

 of X. Oudh (Duthie's collector). Flowers in May. "1 his species is 

 very near J. la urifolium, Roxb., but differs from it by the much shorter 

 and thicker calyx-lobes and by the shorter and brcader corolla-lobes. 



4. J. dispermum, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. i (1820) 99 ; PI, As. Ear. Hi, 

 46, f. 274; Don. Prod. 106; Brand. For. Fl, 312; F. B. I. tit, 602; 

 K.mjildl For. Fl. 226; Collett Fl. Siml. 307. 



A glabrous climbing shrub. Branches divergent, slender, 4-angnlar. 

 Leaves opposite, imparipinnate, or the upper ones « ften unifoliolate : 

 leaflets usually 3-. r >, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, entire, cordate and 

 3-nerved at the baee and with a long slender acuminate apex ; terminal 

 leaflet with a long stalk, the blade 3-i£ in. long ; lateral smaller, sh< rtly 

 stalked or subsessile. Floners many, white or pink, in elongate termi- 

 nal panicles, or few together in rather dense axiiliry eymea ; tracts 

 minute, pedicels 0-J in. long. I'ahix glabrous or minutely puberulou- : 

 teeth very short, triangular. Corolla-tube about $ in. long : bl.es ovate 

 or broadly elliptic, shorter than the tube. Car^ im 2-s-eded, $ in. long, 

 ellipse-id, dark purple wh«n ripe. 



