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through Assam to Burma, is replaced in the Malayan Peninsula by the closely 

 allied species E. ellipticum, which differs from this as noted under that species. 

 Mr. Clarke, in Flor. Br. India, however, rednces H. ellipticum to H. venulosum, a 

 course in favour of which there is a good deal to be said. 



12. Heptapleukqm ellipticum, Seem. Rev. Hed. 43. Scandent; 

 young branches with pale brown glabroas bark. Leaves digitate ; tho 

 common petiole 4-6 in. long, glabrous; leaflets 5-7, coHaeeous, more 

 or less broadly elliptic, sometimes elliptic-rotund, apiculate, subapicu- 

 late or obtuse, the base rounded or sub-cuneate; the edges entire, 

 revolute when dry ; both surfaces glabrous and rather dull when dry ; 

 main nerves 4 or 5 pairs, the reticulations wide, inconspicuous ; length 

 2'5-7 in., breadth 1-75-4 in. ; petiolules uequal, •7o-l'5 in., that of the 

 middle leaflet 2 in. Panicle about as long as the leaves, terminal, 

 glabrous, lax, open, the branches long, spreading and bearing few- 

 flowered umbels on long slender peduncles ; flowers globular-ovoid, '1 in, 

 long or less, on slender pedicels •15-*2 in. long. Fruit oblong, yellowish, 

 with 5 ridges and 5 cells. Paratropia elliptica, Miq. in Bonplandia 

 1856, p. 138 ; Flor. Ind. Bat. J, Pt. I, p. 756 ; in Ann. Mus. Lugd, 

 Bat. I, 20 ; Sciadophyllum ellipticum^ Blume Bijdr. 878 ; DC. Prodr. 

 IV, 260. 



Singapore; Biilley 5839, 6399. Malacca; Berry 1187, 1215. 

 Penang; Curtis 972. Perak; Scortechini; Wray 2020, 2136; King's 

 Collector 254J, 4733, 10375, 10534. Andaman and Nicobar Islands; 

 King's Collector. 



This resembles H. venulosum. Seem , but the reticulations on the leaves of this 

 are wider and less distinct than in that ; and the panicles of this have spreading, 

 quite glabrous, lax branches. 



13. Heptapleurum scandens, Seem. Rev. Hed. 43. A slender 

 creeper 3-5 in. long, the stem pale and corky. Leaves small, digitate; 

 common petiole 1-2-5 in. long, slender ; leaflets 3-5, thinly coriaceous, 

 lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, tapering much to the base, the edges 

 entire and somewhat recurved ; both surfaces glabrous, the upper smooth 

 and shining, the lower dull and reticulate ; length 1-5-3-5 in., breadth 

 •5--8 in. ; petiolules subequal, •2--25 in. long. Panicles longer than the 

 leaves, slender, 4-8 in. long; the branches spreading horizontally, 

 simple, each ending in an umbel of flowers on a slender pedicel nearly 

 •75 in. long ; buds globular, 'I in. in diam. Fruit elliptic, baldly 5- 

 ridged, 5-celled, -1 in. long. Paratropia scandens, Miq. in Bonplandia 

 1856, p. 138 ; Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I. 757. P. brackyhotrya, Miq. Flor. 

 Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 755. Sciadophyllum scandens. Blame Bijdr. 878. 



Perak; Wray 1844, 2401, 2880; Curtis 2687; Scortechini 218, 

 1352 ; King's Collector 4304. Distrib. Java, Sumatra. 



A very slender glabrous species, at once distinguished fay its small lanceolate, 

 caudate-acuniinate, digitate leaflets. 



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