644 XLII. RHAMNE^:. (M. A. Lawson.) [Gouania. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Kumaon to Assam and the Khasia Mts., ascending to 

 4000 ft. ; BANDA, BIRMA, TENASSERIM, and the MALAY PENINSULA. DIBTEIB. Java, 

 Philippines. 



Branches glabrous. Leaves 3-4 by If -2 in., ovate, acuminate, subcordate at the 

 base, serrulate. Racemes slightly puberulous ; bracteoles conspicuous, subulate. < W ///.>; 

 glabrous or with a very few scatttered hairs on the outside. Petals hooded. Styles \ the 

 length of the calyx-segments. Fruit glabrous. 



3. Cr. napalensis, W<iU. in Roxb. Fl Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 417; Cat. 

 4272 ; flowers pubescent, disk glabrous the lobes linear acuminate, style- 

 arms much elongated. 



NJPAL, Wtdlirh. SIKKIM. Griff. 



Leaves longer and the Jiowers a little larger than in the last species, and the styles 

 twice as long. 



12, HELINUS, E. Meyer. 



Unarmed scandent cirrhose shrubs, with slender angular branches. / 

 alternate, entire. Flowers umbellate, on ln^ slender peduncles. C>i/t/x 

 superior, tube broadly obeonic. Petals 5, inserted upon the margin of tlie 

 disk, hooded. Stamens 5, equalling tlie petals. J)i*k epigyiums, tilling the 

 calyx-tube. Ovary 3-celled ; style short, 3-cleft, sti-nias recurved, 

 interior, obovoid-globose, 3-celled; cells 1-seeded, coriaceous, tardily de- 

 hiscing. DISTRIB. Species 3, two African, and one North Indian. 



1. H. lanceolatus, Brand. For. FL 574. Gouania lanceolata, Wall. 

 Cat. 4273. 



The PAN.TAB, OUDE, and the WESTERN HIMALAYA from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 

 1-4000 i't. 



The whole plant quite glabrous, or the younp-st ]>arts of the shoots and flowers 

 pubescent. Leaves 1-1 ^ by -$ in., ovate to ovate-luuceulate. 



ORDER XLIII. AMPELIDE-ffi. (By M. A. Lawson, F.L.S.) 



Small trees or shrubs, usually climbing by means of tendrils, more rarely 

 radicant (sometimes herbaceous iu Lva) ; juice copious, watery. 

 angled compressed or cylindric, with numerous very large proper vessels. 

 Leaves alternate, usually petioled, simple or digitately or pedately 3-9-f<>li<- 

 late, rarely pinnate or decompound. Flowers umbellately- paniciilately- or 

 spicately-cymose. J\>lmt<:l<:s often transformed into simple or compound 

 tendrils or adhering to rocks or trees by viscid pads terminating the 

 ultimate segments, or expanded into a broad iloriferous memhraiie (/'/,//'- 

 sanlhes). Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, rarely unisexual. Ca lyx small, 

 entire or 4-5-toothed or- lobed. J t >-tti/. 4-5, distinct, or cohering, valvate, 

 caducous. Stamens 4-5, opposite the petals, inserted at the base of the 

 disk or between its lobes, filaments short subulate ; anthers free or connate. 

 2-celled, introrse. Dish free or connate with the petals stamens or ovary, 

 annular or variously expanded. Ovary 2-6-celled ; style short, slender 

 conical or 0, stigma minute or large and flat, sublobed ; ovules 1-2 in 

 each cell, ascending, anatropal, raplie ventral. Berry 1-6-celled ; cells 

 1-2-seeded. Seed erect, often rugulose, albumen cartilaginous j embryo 

 short basal, cotyledons ovate. DISTRIB. Species about 250, inhabiting 

 the tropical arid temperate regions of the whole world. 



