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without an arillus, placed side by side, not one above the other, 
and the peduncles furnished with a grapnel or crooked tendril for 
its peculiar support, not, as in most of the other tendril-bearing 
plants, for the assistance of the branches in their ascent.” 
The vernacular names in India for this plant are :— 
Bombay.— Vilayaté- Champa. 
Tamil.—Manoranjitam. 
Telinga.—Phala - sampenga ; Sakala-phala-sampenga ; 
Manoranjitam. 
Malay.—Madura-Kaméshvari ; Manuranjitam. 
Madras.—Manoranjatam. 
The Artabotrys suaveolens, Blume (Flor. Jav., Anon. p. 62, tt. 30, 
31), is a large woody climber met with in the forests of the eastern 
peninsula from Sylhet to Malacca, and distributed eastwards to the 
Philippines. Its leaves are oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, shining 
above, glabrous on both surfaces, or sparsely hairy on the midrib 
beneath; peduncles woody, recurved, many-flowered; flowers 
fascicled, bracteolate; limb of petals cylindric or subclavate ; 
carpels sessile, smooth. 
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