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1. Myxopyrum smilacifolium, Blume, Mus. Bot. i. p. 320 (deser. 
emend.). 
Folia ovato-elliptica vel anguste elongato-elliptica, 15-20 vel 
18-25 em. longa, 7-12 vel 6-8 em. lata, subcoriacea, basi rotundata, 
trinervia, margine paullo inflexa, integra vel superne plus minusve 
serrata. Inflorescentia axillaris paniculata, compressa, multiflora ; 
ped 
lanceolatae, acutae, 3-4 mm. 
longae. Flores sessiles in cymulas 
congestae. Calyx 1 mm. longus, 
extra pilsosus, lobis 0°75 mm. 
longis ovatis subacutis. Corollae 
1. tubus 1 mm. longus, lobi 1°5 mm. 
longi, lineari vel lineari-spathulati, subcarnosi. Stamina filaments 
brevibus prope tubum medium insertis ; antherae 0°75 mm. longae, 
orbiculari-oblongae, e tubo corollae aliquatenus exsertae. Ovareum 
globosum, 0°5 mm. diametro ; stigma minutum. Fructus baccatus, 
globosus, circiter 0°8 cm, diametro. 
Sikki Terai, J. D. Hooker; Upper Assam and 
Assam Plains, Jenkins; Assam, Mrs. Mack; Assam, Suddiya, 
Herb. Griffith, 3696; Chela, Hooker and Thomson, 2197 ; Cachar, 
Doarbund Pass and Shapore, R. L. Keenan’s Collector ; Chittagong, 
Wallich, 2837 ; Seetakond, Hooker and Thomson, 564. 
uRMA. Moulmain, Lodd. 
Chondrospermum smilacifolium, Wall., Cat. No. 2837 ; Wight, Ill. 
t. 151, b. D; DC. Prodr. viii, p. 301. Chionanthus smilacifolia, 
Wall. in Roxb. Flor. Ind. i., p, 108; Roem. et Schult., Syst. Veg. 
Mant. i., p. 79; Spr. Syst. Veg. i., p. 35; Dietr. Spec. Plant. 
i, p. 242. Ligustrum laurifolium, Roxb., Hort. Beng., p. 3- 
Myzxopyrum smilacifoium, Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. i. p. 320; 
Kurz, For. Fl. ii., 160, and in Journ. As. Soc., 1877, pt. it, 245 5 
C. B. Clarke, in Hook. FI. Brit. Ind., iii., p. 618. 
Non Chondrospermum coriaceum, Bl., fide C. B. Clarke, le. 
In the Journ. As. Soc. ii., p. 245, Kurz divides up the species 
into two varieties a. genuinum with the leaves more or less entire 
or minutely spinosely-toothed, and with elongated panicles and 
(3. tlicifolium with spinose-serrate leaves and contracted panicles. 
This variety is apparently included with the species by Clarke in 
Flor. Brit. Ind. iii., p. 618. 
A variable species as regards shape of leaves. In some specimens 
the leaves are narrowly elongate-elliptic ; in others they are 
broadly ovate or ovate-elliptic ; the panicle of fruits resembles a 
bunch of very small grapes. In the Flora of British India Penang — 
