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MAXGOLIACE.E OF BEITISH INDIA. 



obovoid, shortly beaked. — Wall. Tent. Fl. JYep., t. 14. — Sphcerostema gr audi flo rum, Booh, 

 fil. Sr Thorns Fl. Ind. 81. 



Temperate Himalaya from Ghurwal to Bhotan, at elevations of from 6,000 to 10 000 

 feet. 



Plate 6 9 A. Schizandra grandiflora, Hook. fil. 6f Thorns.— \, flowering branch with 



female flowers; 2, female flower; 3, male flower; 4, ripe fruit: of naturae s'ue. 



, S. elongata, Hooh fil. 6f Thorn. Fl. Br. Ind. i, 44. A woody climber with thin 

 brown, lenticellate branches. Leaves membranous, oblong-lanceolate to ovate, acuminate 

 or acute ; the edges cartilaginous, entire, or minutely and remotely dentate J base cuneate 

 or rounded, slightly unequal; beneath glaucous, the reticulations faint; main nerves 

 4 to 5 pairs ; length 2 to 3-5 in., breadth 1 to 1-5 in. ; petiole -5 to -7 in., s ] e nd 

 Flowers -5 to -76 in. in diam., yellowish, axillary, solitary, or in fascicles of 2 or 3 on 

 slender, ebracteolate pedicels 1 to 1-5 in. long. Sepals 3, orbicular. Petals 6 Wei 



er. 



© 7 



pals, ovate-orbicular. Stamens as in 8. Roxburghiana. Fruit 2 to 3 in. Ion 

 the rachis very slender, swollen at intervals ; carpels sub-sessile, globose, grooved on one* 

 side, not beaked.— Sphoerostema elongatum, Blume Fl. Jav. Schiz., t. 5 ; Rook, fil 

 Thorns. FL Ind. 85.— Sphcerostema grandifl>rw?i, Wall. Cat. 4983, A in p<irt\ C. 



Temperate Himalaya from Nepal to Sikkim, alt. 5,000 to 6,000 feet; Khasia H 

 Distiub. — Java. 



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Plate 69 B. Schizandra elongata, Hook, fil.— 5, branch with male flowers; 6 branch 



with fruit: of natural size; 7, female flower dissected to show the three sepals, 



petals, and gyncecium : enlarged. 



3. S. propinqua, Book. fil. Sf Thorns. Fl. Dr. Ind. i, 45. A woody climber 



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branches with slender, pale brown, lenticellate bark. Leaves slightly fleshy' ovatet 

 lanceolate, acuminate ; edges with minute distant teeth or sub-entire°; the base rounded 

 or cuneate, slightly unequal; under surface slightly pale; the reticulations wide not 

 prominent; main nerves 6 to 7 pairs, faint, anastomosing far from the mar-in- Wth 

 3-5 to 4-5 in., breadth 1-25 to 1-4 in.; petiole -4 to -6 in. Flowers -6 in! in diam 

 yellow or orange, axillary, solitary, on bracteolate pedicels as long as, or shorter than' 

 the petioles. Sepals and petals broadly ovate or obovate ; anthers 12 to 15 embedded 

 in the conjoined globose fleshy mass of filaments. Fruit 6 in. long; the axis cylindric 

 fleshy, rough; carpels sub-sessile, globose, baccate, 2-seeded.— Hook. Ic. PI t 1715 ' 

 Sphcerostema propingumn t £1. Fl. Jav. Schizandrece 15; Hook. fil. $ Thorns. Fl Ind 85 

 Kadsura propinqua, Wall. Tent FL Nep. 11, t. 15. 



Western Himalaya from Gharwal to Nepal, at elevations of 4,000 to 6,000 feet 

 Plate 41 A Schizandra propinqua, Hook, fil $■ Thoms.-X, branch with male 



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flower, 2, petals and androeemm of a male flower, dissected ; 3, ripe fruit: of naiural 



size, 4, androecium; 5, calyx: enlarged. 



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