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glabrous, the midrib brown tomentose; flowers 14-2 in. in diameter, 
in terminal many-flowered corymbs; pedicels 1-3 in. long, the lower 
ones with foliaceous, the upper ones with minute, bracts; sepals 
orbicular, tomentose ; ovary glabrous; gynophore 1} in, long.— 
(From Hooker’s Ind. F1.) te 
Haxs.—Tenasserim. 
Hazs.—Ava. 
15. C.am Kz.—A large scandent shrub, armed with 
short, sharp, recurved thorns, the younger parts puberulous ; leaves 
broadly lanceolate, 4-5 in. long, on a puberulous short petiole, 
acute at base, almost coriaceous, acuminate, glabrous, purplish 
green beneath, the lateral nerves indistinct ; flowers unknown ; the 
fruiting pedicels about 4 lin. long, glabrous, forming by 3-4 poor 
umbels arranged in a terminal panicle; ovary and gynophore 
glabrous ; berries oblong, about 6 lin. long, smooth, red, 1-seeded. 
Has.—Tropical forests of South Andaman.—Fr. Apr. 
16. G, Wight. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 177.—A large woody 
climber, glabrous, unarmed or armed with recurved thorns; leaves 
oblong, 3-5 in. long, rounded at both ends, retusely apiculate, 
coriaceous, shining above, obscurely penninerved below; flowers 
in. in diameter, white, on }-1 in. long pedicels ; umbels many- 
flowered, in large terminal panicles; sepals glabrous, reflexed ;— 
petals oblong; stamens about 8; gynophore 4 in. long; berry 
aed lin. in diameter, smooth, several-seeded.— (From Hooker’s 
nd. Fi.) 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
17. C. versicolor, Griff.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 17 5.—Climbing, the 
_ branches glabrous, armed with short recurved thorns; leaves lance- _ 
olate or oblong-lanceolate, 2-3 in. long, bluntish and retusely 
acuminate, on a puberulous petiole } in. long, obscurely penninerved, — 
glabrous, shining above, pale beneath; flowers 2 in. in diameter, 
white, then rose, on an in. long pedicels; corymbs simple, ter- ee 
in lateral racemes 1-1} in. long; sepals glabrous, ovate, the 
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