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1. G. tilicefolia, Willd. sp. iv. 1000. Roxb. Corom. 1. N. 98. 



Shrubby, climbing. Leaves cordate, serrulate, smooth. Racemes 

 terminal, and axillary. 



Ttlinga. Penta'-tiga. 



A large, climbing, woody shrub, a native of the Circar mountains. 1 



Tendrils simple, small, generally from the lower part of the ra- 

 cemes. — Leaves alternate, petioled, cordate, slightly serrate, or cre- 

 nulate, smooth, from two to four inches long. — Racemes terminal, and 

 from the exterior axils, long, filiform. — Flowers numerous, small. — \ 

 JBractes minute. — Calyx above, five-parted. — Carol as in Rhamnus. 

 — Nectary the saucer-shaped part is here augmented by five emar- 

 ginated, spreading horns. — Filaments inserted in the margin of the 

 nectary, alternate with its horns. — Germ below, three-sided. Style 

 three-cleft. — Capsule dry, triangular, three-celled, three-valved.--;, 

 Seeds one in each cell. 



Obs. by N. TV. 

 I have found it abundantly in the lower part of Nipal, at He- 

 tounra, and between that place and Bheempedi, climbing over large 

 trees ; with ripe fruit in November. It is also a native of Silhet, where 

 it blossoms during the rains. — N. W. 



2. G. napalensis, Wall. 



Shrubby, climbing. Leaves oval, finely acuminate, rounded or 

 acute at the base, seldom sub-cordate, villous and strongly ribbed 

 underneath. Tetiols glandular at the apex. Racemes very long, vil- 

 lous. 



i have observed this shrub in Nipal on the high mountains of 

 Sheopore, Chiindrt/gni, &c. flowering from June until October. 



A very extensively climbing shrub with long, slender, striped, round 

 branches beset with pretty copious, soft, rust-coloured, spreading 

 hairs, especially while young.— Leaves ovate, sometimes cordate, more 

 frequently rounded or acute at the base, terminating m a very long, 



