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long as the male, tubular. Calyx as in the male, the teeth recurved. 

 Petals as in the male, tlieir apices entire or minutely serrulate. Ovary 

 ovoid, on a short gynophore, the stigma peltate 3-lobed. Fruit broadly 

 fusiform, 2 to 2"5 in. long and 1 in. indiam. at the middle, dirty-yellowish 

 when dry. Seeds compressed, sub-rotund, keeled, with prominent 

 sharply edged deep pits in the centre and a row of elongate pits round 

 the edges. Modecca cardiophylla, Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 602. 

 Modecca cordifolia, Kurz (not of Blume) in Jouru. As. Soc. Beng., 1876, 

 IT, 132 : Masters in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 602. M. heterophylla, 

 Kurz, (not of Blume) Andam. Report Append. A., 39. 



Andaman Islands ; very common. Nicobar and Great Coco 

 Islands ; Prain. — Distrib. Cambodia, Khasia Hills and Eastern Bengal, 

 tropical Eastern Himalaya. 



A species well marked by its deeply cordate leaves much reticulate on the 

 lower surface, widely-spreading cymes and sub-rotund cancellate pitted seeds. Some 

 confusion in nomenclature has arisen from the fact that Kurz, without having seen 

 authentic specimens of Blume's two species Modecca cordifolia and M. hetercphylla 

 referred this plant to both of them. Dr. Masters perpetuated part of Kurz's mistake 

 by accepting his view as to the identity of this Andaman and Nicobar plant with 

 M. cordifolia, Blume, whereas the whole of the Andaman material (greatly increased 

 in bulk since he wrote) really belongs to his own species M. cardiophylla. This 

 view was first expressed by Dr. D. Prain, Superintendent of the Calcutta Garden 

 in a note on one of the specimens in the Herbarium there. 



4. Adenia POPULiFOLiA, Engl, in Jahrb. XIV, 376, var. pentamera 

 King. A slender and often very extensive climber (often 150 feet) 

 Stems slender, smooth, terete. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-ovate, 

 gradually narrowed to the acute or sub-acute apex, the base slightly 

 cordate ; both surfaces smooth, the nerves and reticulations little pro- 

 minent when dry : main-nerves 6 to 7 pairs, curved, spreading, rather 

 faint; length 3 to 5 in. ; breadth 1-75 to 25 in. ; petiole '75 to 1*25 in., 

 its apex bearing 2 large cup-shaped glands conjoined by their backs. 

 Peduncles shorter than the leaves with 2 slender spreading branches 

 and a single rather stout tendril. Flowers not numerous, on slender 

 unequal pedicels, some of them '75 in. long. Male flower '2 in. long, 

 narrowly fusiform ; the calyx with 5 short oblong blunt lobes. Petals 

 springing from the calyx-tube just below its lobes, and like them but 

 narrower. Anthers 5, broadly linear, the connective slightly produced 

 beyond the apex, shortly sagittate at the base ; filaments joined into a 

 tube and inserted into the fundus of the calyx : rudimentay ovary 

 linear. Female flower shorter than the male (only \h in. long) and 

 not so slender but with similar calyx-lobes and petals. Ovary oblong, 

 crowned by three erect oblong rather large stigmas. Fruit double fusi- 

 form, deep red when ripe, 25 to 3 in. long and from '75 to 1 in. in 



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