DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES OF PORANA, 137 
i cum mucrone, 
verse peoraae rigide chartacei, rh aap , capsula ptobinns v. subo b- 
conica 
in 2 Bg co neavo-depressam et et quasi circulariter truncata. 
fab.—In cleared lands (toungyas) in and around evergreen er 
cal forests of the eastern slopes of the Pegu Yomah, e.g., the 
waters of the Khaboungchoung ; also Martaban (Rey. F. Mason) gon 
the Kareni country (0’Rile ey).—Fr. January. 
There is another species in the Calcutta Herbarium nearly allied 
to the above ; but the specimens (Griff. No. 5876, from East Bengal) 
are very incomplete and destitute of flowers and leaves, and therefore 
quite unfit for descriptio 
ive species se Porana are described in De Candolle’s “ Prodro- 
mus,” to which . v. Mueller added an Australian species, making 
now a total ss nine , species. The Indian ones may be arranged in the 
following w 
* All the 5  valyx-ooguiehtat in fruit equally enlarged and egpactin 
ig several- mene Corolla small, 2—4 lin. 
t 
+ Racemes or outinies furnished with cordate sessile floral 
leaves. Calyx hardly a line lon 
1. P. truncata, Kurz. Capsules at apex as erp concave, 
truncate. (Pegu, Martaban, and Karenee c ) 
2. P. racemosa, Rox Capsules rounded with a mucro. 
een i | Himalaya to Khasya and Martaban ; also in 
Hin 
+t Racemes par without floral leaves. 
. P. volubilis, Burm. Leaves at base rounded or hardly 
cordate ; calyx-lobes about 2 lin. long, broad and blunt, 
often purplish coloured. (From Khasya and Barma 
down to Malacca, the “aes Archipelago, and Philip- 
pines, also in Hindos 
** Only 3 of the ealyz-lobon in fruit fairly enlarged, erect 
or erect patent, the 5 ea 2 wholly or partially reduced, 
or at least much smaller 
+ Corolla a78% about t 1-2lin, in diameter, white. Calyx-lobes 
in fruit 1-nerv 
Khas ; 
tt peter iene and rasta the limb about an inch 
or in diameter. Calyx-lobes in fruit several- 
ae 
+ Only 3 of the 5 calyx-lobes enlarged = the others 
entirely suppressed. Flowers w 
