Anisadenia] xxix. LINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 413 



always simple, lower part often creeping. Leaves approximate, spreading, elliptic- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, glaucous beneath, margin quite entire or obscurely waved or 

 crisped, fiaceme 2-5 in. long, quite simple. Flowers |-^ diam., pink ; pedicel very 

 short. Calyx ^ in. long. 



2. A. pubescens, Griff. Notul. iv*. 535 ; Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 593 (right hand 

 figure] ; stem pubescent leafy all the way up, leaves 1-1-| in. with appressed 

 hairs above siikily villous beneath. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 5-6000 ft,, Griffith, &c. 



More slender than A. saxatilis, stem elongate, prostrate, often much-branched; 

 branches including the racemes 6-1 5 in. Leaves alternate, whitish beneath, elliptic, 

 acute at both ends, margin quite entire, sometimes undulate, nerves very oblique ; petiole 

 |- in. Raceme very slender, simple above, the lower peduncles 2-3-flowered, short, 

 erect, and as well as the rachis tomentose. Calyx \ in. long, gland-tipped hairs more 

 robust tban in A. saxatilis. Flowers 4 in. diam., white, much larger than iu A. aaxa- 

 tilis,. 



4. HUGONIA, Linn. 



Climbing, often tomentose shrubs. Leaves alternate, serrate, stipulate. 

 Inflorescence various ; flowers yellow, lower peduncles converted into spiral 

 hooks. Sepals 5. Petals 5, contorted, fugacious. Stamens 10, hypogynous, 

 with glandular swellings on the basal ring between the filaments, 

 which are connate below. Ovary 5-celled ; styles 5, filiform, stigmas 

 capitate ; ovules 2, collateral in each cell. Drupe globose. Seeds com- 

 pressed, albuminous ; embryo straight or slightly curved, cotyledons flat. 

 DISTEIB. Tropical Asia and Africa; species about 6. 



1. H. IWEystax, Linn. ; leaves elliptic-obovate or obovate-oblong obtuse 

 or subacute quite entire reticulate on both surfaces. Wall. Cat. 1201 ; 

 W. & A. Prodr. 72; Wight III. 79, t. 32; Planch, in Hook. Lond. Journ. 

 Bot. vii. 524; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Flor. 17. ' H. obovata, Ham. in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xiv. 2Q5.heede Hort. Mai. ii. t. 19. 



WESTERN PENINSULA, from the Concan to Travancor. CEYLON. 



A rambling leafy shrub ; branches, tendrils, and sepals densely clothed with brown 

 tomentum. Leaves crowded, 14-24 in., rather thin, nerves spreading; stipules subulate, 

 undivided. Flowers 1-14 i n - diam., terminal and in the upper axils, shortly pedicelled, 

 yellow. Stamens alternately long and short. Fruit globose, shorter than the sepals. 



2. H. ferruginea, W. & A. Prodr. 72 ; leaves elliptic long acuminate 

 quite entire densely silkily villous beneath, veins arched not reticulate. 



CEYLON, hotter and drier parts of the island. 



A rambling or climbing shrub ; branches, tendrils, and sepals densely velvety. Leaves 

 2-5 by 14~2 in., rather coriaceous, finely silky above when young, glabrous when old, 

 midrib and arched nerves strong ; stipules subulate. Flowers about half the size of 

 those of H. Mystax. 



5. ROUCHERIA, Planch. 



Erect or climbing trees or shrubs with revolute woody tendrils. Leaves 

 quite entire or glandular-serrate, coriaceous, penninerved ; stipules minute, 

 caducous. Flowers axillary, yellow, subsessile, or in excessively short 

 fascicled spikes; pedicels bracteolate, Sepals 5. Petals 5, hypogynous, 

 contorted, fugacious. Stamens 10, all fertile, filaments connate into a short 

 tube below. Glands obsolete. Ovary 3-5-celled ; styles 3-5, filiform, 

 stigmas cuneate, 2-lobed ; ovules 2, collateral. Drupe scarcely fleshy, sub- 

 globose ; stone 3-6-angled, bony, cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds compressed, pen- 

 dulous ; albumen rather fleshy, embryo with foliaceous cotyledons and an 

 elongate radicle. DISTRIB. 3 or 4 species, one or more Malayan and Bornean, 

 and 2 from Guiana. 



