Tabula 2845. 



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STAUNTONIA FILAMENTOSA, GrilJ 



Lardizabalacear. 



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f. 1 ; species distiucta foliis amplissimis, foliolis tujifcjpicue venosis, 

 floribus in ramis brcvissimis lateralibus apliyllis fasciculato-raceiuusis 

 et filamentis brevibus. 



Frutex scaiidens, imdique glaber^ caulibus crasslusculis striatis, 

 cortice cinereo. Folia pahnatim 7-foliolata, loiige potiolata, 25-30 cm. 

 diauietro ; pctiolus comiuuuis 10-15 cm. longus, striatus, basi apictMjUL' 

 levitcr iucrassatus ; foliola longc potiolulata, inae(| nulla, cuiiacea, 

 oblonga, ubovata vcl fere elliptica, absque potiolulo 10-20 cm. Joii.ua, 

 3- 1 cm. lata, acuminata vel acuta, basi rotundata, marginc incrassata, 

 conspicue vcnosa ; petioluli 1-5-7 cm. loiigi, striati, basi apicequc levitcr 

 incrassati. Flares masculi tantuni visi, circiter 1-3 cm. longi, race- 

 mosi : racpmi ad fob"orum delansorum axillas fasciculati. 4-8 cmJonLn. 



Sepala carnosa, suberecta ; 3 exteriora oblonga, obtusa, 3 interiora 

 lanceolata, subacuta. Nectar ia 6, carnosa, obtusa, circiter 1 mm. 

 longa, staminibus opposita. Stamina monadelpha, circiter 8 mm. 

 longa, quam sepala breviora ; anthorae birimosae, fihunentis longiores, 

 breviter apiculatae. PistiUodia 3, filiformia. 



India : Upper Assam ; Tingrei, in a wood, associated with Thea, 

 Hh, Feb. 23, 1836, 



The specimens in the Herbarium of S. filameiUosa, GrifF., wore placed 

 with Holhoellia htijolia, Wall., and so named in the handwriting of 

 T. Tlionuion, and in the Index Kewensis it is treated as ;i synonym 

 of that plant, but neither in Hooker and Thomson's Flora Indica, nor 

 in Hooker's Flora of British India, is the name cited as a synonym. 

 The specimens bear the number 118 of the Kcw distribution of Griffith's 

 plants ; the number accompanying all the specimens distributed xmder 

 the name of IlolhoeUia latijolia, Wall. Still it does not follow that 

 there were any duplicates of the true S. fdaynentosa, Griff., to distribute, 

 and those at Kew may possibly be the only ones in existence in this 

 country. On the other hand a manuscript name of Griffith {Stauri' 



