Hiptage.] xxx. MALPIGHIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 



2. H. parvifolia, W. & A. Prodr. 107, excl. syn. ; branches and shoots 

 elongate twiggy, leaves about 3 in. elliptic acute or acuminate glabrous, 

 racemes with appressed pubescence, flowers | in. diam., carpels usually 

 without the additional wing. Gaertnera laurifolia, Herb. Madr. ex Wall. 

 Cat. 7265. 



WESTERN PENINSULA; Mysore, Bottler; Courtallum, Wight; CEYLON, hot and dry 

 parts of the Island, Gardner, &c. 



Smaller in all its parts than H. MadaUota, and with usually two styles ; the pubes- 

 cence of the inflorescence is appressed, in which respects it differs from H. sericea. 



3. H. sericea, Hook. f. ; branchlets short slender, leaves about 2-3 in. 

 elliptic or ovate acuminate glabrous, racemes short laxly soft tomentose or 

 villous, flowers \-\ in. diam., carpels with an intermediate ridge. H. parvi- 

 flora, Wight. Cat. 358. Clerodendon sericeum, Wall. Cat. 1824. 



EASTERN PENINSULA; PENANG, Wallich; MALACCA, Griffith, Maing'ty. 



Branches and inflorescence clothed with soft brown villous pubescence. Leaves 

 always small. Racemes axillary and terminal, short, dense-flowered; pedicel much 

 thickened from beneath the flower downwards. The habitat of Ceylon given by Wight 

 and Arnott is, no doubt, an error, originating with that respecting Tristellateia 

 australasica. 



4. H. acuminata, Wall. Cat. 1065 ; branches stout woody scab rid, 

 leaves 3-4 in. lanceolate acuminate glabrous, racemes short dense clothed 

 with thick brown tomentum, flowers f in. diam., fruit unknown. 



KHASIA MTS ., at Churra, alt. 4000 ft., Gomez, &c. 



A bushy den^-e shrub. Leaves coriaceous, usually caudate-acuminate ; nerves very 

 oblique, few, arched, reticulate on both surfaces ; petiole short, stout. Racemes much 

 shorter than the leaves, sometimes corymbose. A chain of very fine reticulate nerves 

 borders the leaf beneath, in which are often (not always) remote deeply impressed 

 points or glands. 



5. H. candicans, Ifook. f. ; branchlets slender and with the leaves 

 beneath clothed with soft fine white cottony pubescence, leaves on young 

 shoots 1-2 in. oblong or orbicular on old 4-5 in. elliptic-oblong, carpels with 

 no intermediate ridge or wing. Flacourtiacea, Wall. Cat. 9020. 



BIEMA ; banks below Yenangheum, Wallich; sandy woods in the Kivakdwong, above 

 Bamo, Griffith. 



A very distinct species, apparently scandent or sarmentose; the shoots with small 

 rounded leaves resemble the pinnate leaves of a Leguminous climber. Th^ leaves are of 

 a very pale colour, rather shining on the upper surface, and all obtuse or apicnlate ; 

 the nerves are indistinct. There are no flowers, and only imperfect fruits, which ^ire 

 pubescent. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



HIPTAGE, Wall. Cat. 9029, from Herb. Heyne, is Terminalia paniculata. 



3. ASFIDOFTERVS, A. Juss. 



Shrubs, usually climbing. Leaves opposite, eglandular, quite entire; 

 stipules 0. Flowers in simple or compound axillary and terminal panicles ; 

 peduncles bracteate, jointed at the top, pedicels often minutely 2-bracteo- 

 late. Flowers small, yellow, or white. Calyx short, 5-partite, eglandular. 

 Petals 5, not clawed, spreading or reflexed, quite entire. Stamens 10, all 

 perfect, filaments connate or distinct at the base. Ovary 3-lobed, lobes 

 flattened at the back, sides winged ; styles 3, glabrous, stigmas capitate. 

 Fruit of 1-3 samaras ; nucleus sometimes crested or winged at the back, and 



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