136 DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES OF PORANA. 
DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES OF PORANA. 
By S. Kunz. 
urine a visit to the Sikkim-Himalaya in October, 1868, I 
found in the bushes that border the road from Kersiong to Senada a 
1. Porana BA, nov. sp.—Herba (annua y. perennis ?) volu- 
bilis, 6—10 pedalis, glabra; folia subcordato-ovata, petiolo $—1 pedali 
mucronatum provecta, membranacea, glabra; flores speciosi, cyanei, 
pedicellis 4 pollicaribus levissimis suffulti, secus ramulos supra-axil- 
ares foliaceo-bracteatos racemosi v. in racemos flexuosos terminales 
? 
anguste lineares, 1—2 lin. lati, nervis basi 5, sursum 8 parallelis per- 
cursi, transverse venulosi, rigide chartacei, subnitidi, truncato-obtusi, 
mucronati; minores 2 dimidio fere breviores, conformes. 
Hab.—Sikkim-Himalaya, not unfrequent along the post-road from 
— to Darjeeling at 5-6000 feet elevation, on metamorphic rocks. 
- October. 
ECTABILIS, nov. sp.—Frutex volubilis, alte scandens 
poll. longa, ovata, inferiora 
ban, ¢.g., in the Toukyeghat Valley, east of T — il: 
Fr. April, May. mrenes » €ast ok Longu.—Fl. March, April ; 
: 3. Porana TRUNCATA, nov. sp.—Herba yolubilis, annua ?, subglabra ; 
foliacordato-ovata, basi sinuato-cordata, majora 2—3 poll. longa, petiolo 
Hab.—Not unfrequent in the tropical evergreen forests of Marta- 
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