62 ^oua indica. [Dilleniacece. 



Hab. In Zeylania ! Malaya ! Ava ! Chittagong ! Silhet ! et Assam!— 

 [v. v.) 



Distrjb. Java! las. Philippin.! China australis ! 



Folia obovata, ovali-oblonga vel late lanceolata, obtusa vel acuta, 2-5 poll, longa, 

 l ^ lata, nervosa, nervis superne exaratis subtus proniinulis parallelis namerosis 

 scabemma et utrinque cum ram is parce adpresse pilosa, integra subcrenata vel ser- 

 rata, serratuns mucronatis. Panicula divaricato-rarnosa, adpresse pilosa vel tomen- 

 tosa, multiflora, hinc inde foliosa. F lores diametro i-^-poll. Sepala reflexa 



A very variable and widely diffused plant. The hairy-fruited variety is well 

 marked, but does not appear to possess any other character, nor to be distinguished 

 in any way iu distribution or range. The shape of the leaves is very variable, those 

 on barren shoots and on young plants being larger, more hairy, and more conspi- 

 cuously serrated. According to Planchon (in Herb. Hook.) the Linmean specimen 

 ot p. sarmentosa has hairy fruit. As the glabrous-fruited variety is common in 

 China, there can be no reasonable doubt that Loureiro's Actcea is correctly referred 

 here. His Calligonum (1. c. p. 418, Trachytella Calligonum, DC. Svst., Prod. i. 

 70) is more doubtful, being described fructu gemino polijspermo, which agrees with 

 no Indian Billeniacea. Indeed Lourciro, in comparing his plant with Delima sar- 

 mentosa of Burmann, expressly says that the fruit is very different. The Piripu of 

 Hheede (Hort. Mai. vii. t. 54), which is referred by Willdenqw to D. sarmentosa, 

 but which De Candolle rejects under the name of D. Piripu, as too different in ap- 

 pearance to be considered to belong to the present species, appears to us to be Poly- 

 gonum Chine use, L. If Rhecde's figure be compared with that of Burmann (Fl. Ind. 

 t. 30. f. 3) the resemblance will, we think, strike every one. Rheede's description 

 is, however, very defective. 



2. TETRACERA, L 



erm 



phroditi vel abortu poly garni. Sepala 4-6 ; petala to- 

 tidem. Stamina indefinita. Ovaria 3-5, ovulis pluribus biserialibus. 

 Folliculi totidem, crustacei, nitidi, angulo interiori deliiscentes. <&- 

 mina 1-5, arillata. — Frutices scandentes, vel rarius arbores. Paniculse 

 terminates, vel r amnios axillares foliosos terminantes. 



Natives of tropical Asia, Africa, and America. Continental India north of Ma- 

 laya possesses only two species, but in the islands of the Indian Archipelago they 

 appear more numerous, and some of those described by Blume from Java may yet 

 be found in the Malayan Peninsula. T. Ilegneana (Wall. Cat. 6630 !) is (as has 

 been noted by M. Planchon in Herb. Hook.) a Euphorbiaceous plant. 



1. T. lsevis (Vahl, Symb. iii. 71); foliis glaberriruis superne ni- 

 tidis nervis distantibus, sepalis intus sericeo-pilosis, folliculis 1-2- 

 spermis.— Wall. Cat. 6627 ! DC. Syst. i. 402, Prod. i. 68. T. Mala- 

 barica, Lam. III. t. 485./. 1 ? T. Eheedei, DC. Syst. i. 402, Prod. i. 

 68 ; W.et A. Prod. i. 5 ; Wight, Ic. t.10; Meed. Mai. v.t.8. 



Hab. Zeylania ! Malabaria ! Concan, Graham. — (v. s.) 



Frutex scandens, ramis rigidis angulatis, cortice nitido cinereo. Folia oblonga vel 

 lanceolata, utrinque angustata vel apice abrupte acuminata, mtegerrima vel remote et 

 inconspicue paucidentata, 3-5 poll, longa, 1-2 lata, nervis primordialibus utrinque 

 5-6. Panicula; pauci- vel multiflorae, glabrae, rarius parce strigoso-pubertihe. Brac- 

 teolte ad ramificationes pan a?, lineares. Sepala ciliata, extus glabra. Semina 1-2, 

 uitida, arillo inciso-lacero, segmentis late lanceolatis. 



The principal characters by which this species is distinguished from the oext ;ire 



