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tomentose on the veins. If kept separate on this account our 
plant is japonica, and if the two are combined, the same specific 
adjective must be used as having priority, the original descrip- 
tion of the species in this sense being under the name of Ments- 
permum japonicum, Thunb. (Fl. Jap. (1784) 195). 
Cyclea.—There appear to be three species of Cyclea in S. 
ndia, very similar in habit and in foliage, but differing in the 
structure of their male flowers. far the commonest and 
most widely diffused has globose or widely campanulate pubes- 
cent calyces, with 6-8 anther-cells on the rim of its peltate 
Malabar specimen previously described as M enispermum pelta- 
tum by Lamarck (Encyel. iv. (1797) 96) considered the two to 
he one used. Cyclea Burmanni, Hook. f. & Thoms, and Cyclea 
peltata, Diels are synonymous and the fact that the combina- 
0 
Contrib. Bot. iii. 238), while for the third which 
the Wynaad and has not pre- 
bint! been separately recognised, I propose the name C. 
yin. 
€ synonymy, as far as references to Madras plants are con- 
cerned, will be as follows :— 
C. peltata, Diels, as in Engl. Pflanzenr. Menisperm. 312 
omitting the synonym C. Arnottii, Miers. 
__ ©. Arnottit, Miers in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, xviii. 19, Contrib. 
In. 238.—C. peltata, Hook. £. & Thoms. Fl. Ind, 201, Fl. Brit. 
Ind. i. 104; Diels lc. 312 all in part. 
C. fissicalyx, Dunn.—C. peltata, Miers, Contrib. iii. 2363 
Cooke, Fl. Bomb. i, 24 (not of Hook. f. & Thoms. nor of Diels). 
Berpertackar.—Mahonia Leschenaultii, Takeda. The S. 
Indian plant 1s probably specifically distinguishable from De 
Candolle’s M. napaulensis by its globose glaucous-purple berries. 
NYMPHAEACEAE.—Nymphaea Lotus, L. Conard does not in his 
Monograph identify any Indian plants with the WV. Lotus of 
