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Malpighia, L. 



*1. M. cocciGERA, L. sp. pi. 611. (If. coccifera, L. sp. pi. ed. 

 Kchb. II. 371 ; DC. Prod. I. 578 ; Walp. Rep. V. 152 ; Bot. Reg. t. 568. 

 M. heteranthera, Wight 111. 138. t. 49). 



Hab. Frequently cultivated, and sometimes domesticated in rubbishy 

 places round villages in Chittagong. Fl. H. and R. S. ; Fr. R. S. 



Hiptage, Gsertn. 



Conspectus of species. 



Scandent diffuse shrub, branched almost from the base ; leaves larger, more acute and 

 greyish green; bark grey, ... ... ... ...H. Benghalensis. 



A lofty climber, the stem simple, cable-like, up to 100 ft. long ; leaves smaller and broad- 

 er, often bluntish apiculate, glabrous and glossy, dark-green ; bark dark-brown, 



...H. ohtusifoUob. 



A small tree ; flowers often pale pink with the usual yellow basal blotch ; capsule not 

 ridged on top, the wings shorter and broader, obliquely truncate j bark dark- 

 brown, ... ... ... ... ... ,..H. candicans. 



1. H. Benghalensis, (Banisteria Benghalensis, L. sp. pi. 356 ; H. 

 Madablota, Gsertn. Fr. II. 169. t. 116. f. 4 ; Wight III t. 50; Hf. Ind. Fl. 

 I. 418 ; Gcertnera racemosa, Roxb. Corom. PI. I. t. 18 and Fl. Ind. II. 

 368). 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the dry and open, especially the Eng, forests 

 of Prome and Martaban ; also Tenasserim, Moulmein. Fl. March, Apr ; 

 Fr. Apr May. 



2. H. ohtusifolia, DC. Prod. I. 583. {Gcertnera oltusifolia, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. II. 369). 



Hab. Rather rare in the tropical forests in the deep ravines of the 

 Pegu Yomah. Also Ava, Khakyen hills (J. Anderson) Fl. March. 



It is difficult to give good characters for this species, but it is in my 

 opinion certainly distinct. 



3. H. CANDICANS, Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 419. (jET. arlorea, Kurz in Pegu 

 Rep. and in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1873. 228). 



Hab. Frequent in the dry and eng forests of the Prome District and 

 there forming the upper dry forests. Fl. March ; Fr. March, Apr.. 



Aspidopterys, A. Juss. 



Conspectus of species. 

 * Gynobase persistent after the fall of the samai*9,s, conical, acute, exserted, 

 surrounded by 3 smooth acute disk-lobes. 

 Leaves tomcntose beneath, acuminate j ovary hirsute j nucleus of samara with or with- 

 out a crest, ... ... ... ... ... ... A.nutans. 



Leaves tomcntose beneath, more or less glabrescent, apiculate ; ovary quite glabrous ; 

 nucleus of samara with a crest, ... ... ... ,,, A. tomentosa. 



