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all fertile, one much larger than the rest, the filaments shortly 
connate at base. Ovary 3-celled and 3- lobed, the lobes appendaged 
styles 1 or 2, circinnate, the others rudimentary. Fruit dry, trun- 
cate-obturbinate, produced into 2-3 unequal wings. Seeds almost 
globular. Albumen none.—Scandent or climbing shrubs, rarely 
small trees, with opposite leaves. Stipules none. Flowers rather 
showy, in axillary or terminal simple or compound racemes. 
Scandent spreading shrub, branched from oe the ese 3 leaves 
arger, more acute and greyish- pom: grey . A. Bengalensis. 
A lofty climber, the stem simple, cable- Swe up to 1 00 ft. lo ong; 
leaves smaller and broader, often ‘lant apiculate, glabrous 
and glossy, dark-green ; bark dark-b . A. obtusifolia. 
A small erect tree, flowers often pale pink fe withe the usual yellow 
basal blotch ; capsule not mow on tape the winge shorter and 
ee? obliquely truncate . A. candicans. 
- H. Madablota, Gaertn.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 418; Brand. For. 
Fi. rm .—A tall spreading scandent shrub, the trunk about a foot 
in girth; the young shoots more or less appressed-pubescent ; 
leaves oblong- or ovate-lanceolate, on a thick 2-3 lin. “es: petiole, 
acuminate, 4-5 in. lo sa open tiens glabrous, glauco == Treen ; 
in. = say the 2 outer shorter and Pe Re the central ridge 
obsolete, sharp, or often growing out into an additional short wing. 
Hazs.—Not unfrequent in the and open, especially the En : — oe 
Prome and Mciabon: as "Upper enaserin Shes Apr 5 ; Fr. Apr 
=. —l—SS.=Dil., CaS., 
2. H. obtusifolia, DC.--A lofty woody evergreen climber, the 
trunk simple, cable-like up to 100 ft. long, the young shoots slightly 
silky pubescent ; leaves oblong to elliptically oblong, on a 2-3 lin. 
ne, strong, glabrous s petiole, acute or obtuse at base, apiculate, 2-4 
- ong, gaeen fae glossy and dark-green above ; owers 
mi ddling-sized, white, with a citron-coloured blotch on the upper 
petal, on slender, 4-7 lin. long, whitish _woolly pedicels, forming 
whitish woolly-pubescent slender racemes in the axils of the leaves 
or sometimes collected in a spurious ous terminal panicle ; -eon- 
_ fave-rotundate, obtuse, densely greyish pubescent, about 3 ln. long ; 
petals 4 in. long or longer, rotundate, shortly clawed, villous- 
fringed ; carpels are seen. < 
Hap.—Rather, rare in the tropical forests of the i ravines of the = Be: 
-Yomah.—Fi. Febr.-March.—s: 1—SS.=SiS. 
