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from Sumatra, where it is carefully cultivated in the English 

 settlements on the west side of that island ; on that account it is 

 generally called by the English in India, '• the West Coast 

 creeper." 



The root is branched, widely - spreading. The stem is 

 shrubby, round, branched, twining and climbing to a great extent, 

 downy when young ; the bark spongy and cracked when old. 

 Leaves opposite, stalked, detlexed, heart-shaped, rather taper- 

 pointed, entire, soft, opaque, veiny, downy at the veins and margin, 

 paler beneath, 4 inches long and 3 inches broad. Panicles axillary, 

 solitary, drooping, forked, many-flow^ered, downy. Flowers greenish 

 yellow, size of a primrose. Calycine segments shorter than the 

 tube of the corolla, which is w^oolly inside. Segments of corolla 

 short, obtuse. Seeds surrounded by a membranous rind, and 

 ending in long tuft of hairs. Bot. Eep., t. 185 ; Bot. Keg., t. 412. 

 Syn., P. minor, in Bot. Mag., t. 755 : P. tomcntosa, Lin., 

 Mantissa Plantarum, p. 53 ; Aschpias odoratissima, Eoxb., 

 Elor. Ind., ii., p. 46 : Cynanchum odorafissimum, Loureiro Flora 

 Cochin-Chinensis, p. 164 ; Flos SiamicJ',s, Eumph. Anib., vi., p. 58, 

 t. 26, f. 1 ; Smith, Icones Picta? Plantarum rariorum, iii., p. 16. 



P. acedcns, Blume, Bijdr., p. 1056. Xative of Java, Sumatra, 

 Madura, &c., by the sea-side. Leaves ovate or oval-oblong, 

 acuminated, rounded at the base, having the margins and veins 

 downy ; cymes pedunculate, twin ; calycine segments obtuse, 

 shorter than the tube of the corolla. It differs from P. odoratissima 

 in the leaves never beino- cordate. 



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p. minor, Bot. Rep., t. 114 : Tratt, observations botanicae 

 tabularum rei herbari?e illustrantes, 713. Bot. Mag., t. 755. This 

 is probably only a small variety of P. odoratissima ; the leaves are 

 rounder, with a more slender recurved acumen ; and the corollas 

 orange-coloured or yellow, but also very fragrant; and the segments 

 of the corolla are blunter and shorter. Leaves 1 J inches broad and 

 the same in length. It is a native of the East Indies. 



P. imrviflora, Blume, Bijdr., p. 1056. Leaves sub-cordate-ovate, 

 acute, downy on the margins and veins beneath ; umbellules 

 pedunculate ; calycine segments obtuse, shorter than the tube of 

 the corolla. Xative of Java, about Kuripan, in calcareous soils. 



P. villosa, Blume, Bijdr., p. 1057. Leaves sub-cordate-oval, acute, 



