Aspidopterys.] xxx. MALPIGHIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 421 



** Leaves hairy tomentose or pubescent beneath. 



4. A. kirsMta,,A.Juss. in Archiv. Mm, Nat. Hist. iii. 512, t. 17 ; clothed 

 with long spreading flaccid hairs, leaves broadly obovate or oblong or 

 orbicular-obovate abruptly acuminate cordate at the very base, ovary 

 gl ibrous, samaras linear-oblong, nucleus without dorsal crest or wing. 

 Hiraea hirsuta, Wall. PI. As. Rjr. i. 13, t. 13 ; Cat. 1059. 



BIRMA, on the Taong dong and the Prome Mts., Wallich. 



Shoots very slender. Leaves 4-7 in., clothed on both surfaces with long soft hairs, 

 membranous ; petiole in. Inflorescence an open lax panicle, with regular opposite 

 spreading branches ; bracts at the base of the branches |-f in., lanceolate ; branches 

 with many opposite bracteoles above the middle. Flowers ^ in. diara., subumbellate, 

 glabrous, white. Samaras 1^-2 by -f in., sides almost parallel. 



5. A. cor data, A. Juss. in Archiv. Mus. Nat. Hist. iii. 513; shoots 

 inflorescence and leaves beneath clothed with white appressed tomentum, 

 leaves orbicular-cordate with a broad acumen, panicle effuse, ovary villous, 

 samaras orbicular or nearly so, nucleus not winged or keeled. Hirsea cor- 

 data, Heyne in Wall. Cat. lOtiO; Wall. PI. As. Rar. \. 13. H. nutans, 

 Wall. Cat. 1058, 2. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; Concan, Canara, and Mysore. 



A slender climber. Leaves 5-8 in. diam., the younger ovate-cordate, all rather 

 abruptly terminated by a broad acuminate tip, opaque, and sometimes pubescent above ; 

 petiole 114 in. Inflorescence a lax pendulous panicle, sometimes rusty ; bracts at the 

 branches filiform or 0, pedicels very variable. Flowers in. diam. Samaras pale, 

 1-1 4 in. diam., sometimes slightly oblong. 



6. A. nutans, Hookf. (not of A. Juss.) ; young shoots and inflorescence 

 tomentose, leaves ovate elliptic or orbicular with a broad based acumen 

 base not cordate silkily pubescent beneath, panicle effuse, ovary villous, 

 samaras oblong or suborbicular, nucleus not or rarely ridged or with a 

 small wing at the base. A. Roxburghiana, A. Ju#s. in part. A. lanu- 

 ginosa, A. Juss. I.e. 512. Hiraca nutans, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 447 (not of 

 Wallich}. H. indica, Wall. Cat. 1057 in part. H. lanuginosa, Watt. Cat. 1058. 

 in part (a very villous-leaved form, from Nepal). 



NIPAL, Wallich; SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 2000 ft., J. D. H. ; EASTERN BENGAL, 

 ASSAM, and CHITTAGONG, Roxburgh, &c. ; BIRMA, at Bhamo, T. Anderson. 



Very similar to A. cordata, but usually less tomentose, leaves even larger, attaining 

 10 in. diam., with often rusty tomentum on the nerves and rather thin long hairs be- 

 tween them ; upper surface reticulate and rather shining ; petiole of the larger leaves 

 2 in. Samaras 1| by 1 in., usually oblong, sometimes almost orbicular. Wallich says, 

 under his H. indica (Cat. 1057), " An plus una species sub hac confusa ;" and so it is, 

 from wanting fruit of any of his specimens ; five sheets thus named appertain to this 

 species. 



VAR. rotundifolia; leaves more villous beneath, samara with a small dorsal wing or 

 crest. A. rotundifolia, A. Juss. I.e. 514 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 448. Hirsea orbiculata, 

 Roxb. Hart. Beng. 90 ; Wall PL As. Ear. ii. 13. Chittagong, Roxburgh. 



1. A. Wallichii, Hwk.f.; shoots slender, inflorescence and leaves be- 

 neath densely clothed with appressed more or less silky white tomentum, 

 leaves ovate acute or acuminate base snbcordate, panicle graceful effuse pen- 

 dulous, ovary densely hispid with long white deciduous hairs, samaras 

 orbicular-oblong, nucleus without crest or wing. A. nutans, A. Ju**. I.e.. 

 513. Hiraea nutans, Wall. PL As. liar. i. 13 ; Cat. 1056, 1, not of Jtoxburgfi. 

 H. lanugiuosa, Wall. I.e. ; Cat. 1058 in part. 



