xxx. MALPIGHIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Axphlnptcrys. 



Tropical Himalaya; GARWHAL and KUMAON, ascending to 4500ft., 

 Govan, &c. 



A tall climber; branches white. Leaves 4-7 in., base rounded, under.surface usually 

 snow-white and silky, upper glabrous ; petiole rarely }, in. Panicle sometimes a toot 

 long, white, lax, very graceful Flowerx ^ in. diam.; pedicels rather stout, l-racteoles 

 most minute. Samaras 1^-1^ by 1-1^ in., variable in shape, sometimes nan-owed at 

 one end or emarginate. It is not clear to what plant Wallie.h meant the name 

 In.iuijinofta to apply ; helms in his Herbarium two under that name, and b"th num- 

 bered 1058; ofthe-e, one I'rom (Jovan, puln-red, no doubt, in Kiuiiami, is identical 

 with his own (not Roxburgh's) ffirtea nutans ; the other, from Nipal, has a rusty to- 

 mentoae panicle, and is probably the true nnt(in* of Roxburgh ; indeed he tickets it in 

 mss. " prox nutanti, lioxb.^ As \Vallich's and Jussieu'fl unpuginota is certainly not 

 tin- very l->'al and beautiful species here desciib^d, I have dedicated the latter 

 to Dr. Wallieh. 



DOri'.TITL AND KXri.ri'KI) Sl'ECIES. 



Imperfect specimen in young f'rnit of a plant from Ponesln-o in Binna, collected by 

 Dr. J. Anderson. T^aren orl inilar, coriaceous, densely rustv toimni 



samaras oblong, with a dorsally winged nucleus. - 

 Java. 



A Tenapserim or Andaman Island plant of Heifer, with orbicular leaves slightly cor- 

 date at the b;i>e, glabrous on both surfaces, except the c"sta b- -neatli, which wii h the short 



petioles shoots and infion '-I'.difd ui<h dense rttaty tomentum. Samaras m> m- 



branous, orbicular, not coix-avr, retU06 at tin- t^p, nucleus with a pn'minent dorsal wing. 

 Perhaps a form .'MSS. 



IIiu.K.v FINLAVSUMAXA, Wall. <'at. 7203, is a species oi 



()i:i)i:u XXXI. ZYGOPHYLLRffi. (By M. P. Kdgeworth, F.L.S., 

 and >}. D. Hooker.) 



Herbs or slinilis. ran-ly troi-s. bnuiclics usually articulate. L<'<ti'<-s o])positt* 

 oralteniato by suppression, stiiml.-itf. 2-3-f oliolate or jtinuate; U-afk-ts entire, 

 not punctate; sti)niles t\\in, jiersistcnt, .^oinetinies sjiiny. rhmd<-* usually 

 1-2 in the axils of the stipules, du-actcate rarely :>-l.rarteate. l-'li.wrn her- 

 ma.plinxlite, regular <>r irregular, white, red or ydlmv. very rarely blue. 

 /V-/X//.S ."), rarely 4, IVc-r cr rarely connate at the basr, imbricate, rarely val- 

 vate. Petal* > -4, very rarely (), hypogyimus, live, inibrieate <>r contorted, 

 'rarely valvatc. />/>/ -..nvi-x or depress^, rarely annular or 0, v. ithout glands. 

 us equal to or double or rarely three times as many as tlie petals, 

 inserted at the base of the disk, often alternately longer, those opposite to 

 the petals often connate at the base to the petals, filaments usually with a 

 .scale at the base or midolle; anthers versatile, opening longitudinally. 

 ih'ury sessile or rarely stipitate on a short gynopuore, furrowed angled or 

 winged, 4-5- (rarely 2-1 2-) celled, cells very rarely with partial transverse 

 septa, narrowing into a terminal angled or furrowed style ; stigma simple, 

 rarely discoid or stigmas 5; ovules -2 or more, rarely 1, usually filiform, 

 pendulous or ascending, raphe ventral with a superior micropyle. /'///// 

 never berried, coriaceous or crustaceons, either of 2-10 free or united often 

 spiny cocci, or capsular and septicidally dehiscent, tieeds usually pendulous, 

 .solitary, rarely twin or more, oblong or linear, the raphe adnate or free ; 

 ie>ta membranous crustaceous or thick and mucous; albumen scanty rarely 

 0; embryo the length of the seed, green, straight or rarely curved, cotyledons 

 oblong or linear thick or foliaceous, radicle very short, straight, superior. 



