8 flora indica. [Rammculacea. 



pergamcntacea, integerrima vel hinc inde grosse dentata. Panicula decomposite, 

 multitlorse, strictse ; bractete foliosso, tripartite vel integral, ovatse. Sepal a 4, ovalia, 

 mucrouata, -^-^-uncialia, extus dense tomentosa, intus glabra. Stamina sepalis \ 

 breviora ; filamenta plana, glabra ; anther <b elongate, connectivo longe apiculate. 

 Achenia compressa, marginata, substipitata, pilosa. 



Though very near in general appearance to some of the forms of the next species, 

 the anthers are so peculiar that we cannot unite them. Our materials, however, are 

 rather imperfect ; but botanists in Birma and Western India will have it in their 

 power to compare the two species in a growing state, and to decide whether the one 

 now described, which is we think easily recognizable by its large, copiously-veined 

 leaves and larger flowers, be distinct from all the forms of C. Gouriana. We have 

 examined the original specimen of C. hedysarifolia, DC, in the British Museum ; 

 it is not in flower, but appears identical with the Bombay plant. 



10. C. Gouriana (Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 670); glabriuscula, foliis 

 pinnatisectis vel bipinnatisectis (rarius ternatisectis) segmentis ovatis 

 vel oblongis acuminatis basi rotundatis veJ cordatis membranaceis 

 superne lucidis, antheris brevibus muticis. — DC. Si/st. i. 138, Prod. 

 i. 3 ; Wall. Cat. 4673 ! ; W. et A. Prod. i. 2 ! ; Wight, Ic. t. 933, 934, 

 Neilgh. PI. t. 12. C. cana, Wall. Cat. 4672 ! 



Hab. In dumetis Indise tropicae, praesertim montame, a Zeylania ! 

 et peninsula Malayana ! ad Bengal et Assam ! Behar ! Dekhan ! et 

 Concan ! ; in montibus Khasia, et secus basin Himalaya usque ad 

 fluraen Jelam et montes Rajaori ! — (Fl. hyeme.) (v. v.) 



Distrib. Per totam Indiam tropicam, usque ad insulas Philippinas ! 



Alte scandens, glaberrima, partes novelise plenimque sericeo-pubescentes. Folia 

 forma valde varia, integerrima vel grosse dentata, basi rotundata vel cordata, gla- 

 berrima sparse pilosa vel subtus ferrugineo-tomentosa. Panicula decompositse, 

 multiflorce, bract eis minutis rarius foliaceis ovatis, sscpius elongate folia superantes. 

 Mores parvi, numerosissimi. Sepala ovalia, 2-3 lineas longa, extus vel margine 

 tomentosa. Filamenta plana, glabra. Antherce oblongse. Achenia oblonga, minus 

 compressa quam in affinibus, fusco-pilosa. 



Very widely diffused throughout tropical India, in mountainous districts, climbing 

 to a great distance over trees. A very variable plant, but not easily divisible into 

 varieties ; nor would it serve any good purpose to do so, as the broad and narrow 

 leaved forms occur at one time with entire, at another with dentate leaves, and 

 leaves of every shape are either glabrous or more or less pubescent underneath. 

 The leaves vary also much in amount of division ; and in a series of specimens from 

 the Khasia mountains they are uniformly ternatipartite. These specimens, which 

 were all collected at once, were probably elongated shoots of a luxuriant young 

 plant flowering for the first time, as the shape of the leaflets and the inflorescence are 

 not different from those of the ordinary forms. None of the species of continental 

 India are liable to be confounded with C. Gouriana ; the nearest is C. grata, 

 easily distinguishable by its hoary pubescence and larger flowers. The broad-leaved 

 tomentose forms, however, approach very near to a plant which appears to be com- 

 mon in Java and South China (C. Javanica, DC. ?). The ordiuary state of this 

 species is larger- flowered than C. Gouriana, and the leaves, which are bipinnate, 

 pinnate, or ternate, are soft and pubescent, without the shining surface which is 

 characteristic of the upper surface of the leaves of that species. They are also more 

 cut, sometimes deeply lobed, but it must be confessed that we have entire-leaved 

 specimens before us which are scarcely to be distinguished from C. Gouriana. The 

 botanists of Java or Ceylon (from which latter place two imperfect specimens in 

 Herb. Hook, are perhaps referable to the Javanese species) will, we hope, decide a 

 question for which unfortunately our materials are not sufficient. 



