74 - MALPIGHIACE®. [ A spidopterys. 
3. H. candicans, H.f. Ind. Fl. 1. 419.—Zoung-sooka-pan.— 
A tree (1520+ 3-64 1— 2), shedding leaves in HS.; the 
shoots thickly whitish or yellowish tomentose; leaves very vari iable 
in shape and size, from oblong and ovate-oblong to elliptical and 
elliptically lanceolate, 2-33 in. long or longer, on a very short 
strong petiole, obtuse or rounded at base, almost coriaceous, while 
young cover with a dense whitish tomentum and acute or shortly 
acuminate, afterwards slightly floccose hairy and apiculate or often 
rounded at apex, the nervation and net-veination strongly prominent 
beneath ; flowers white or more usually lilac, with the usual golden 
basal blotch on the upper petal, on long whitish pubescent pedicels 
1 or 2-bracted at about the middle, forming longer or shorter 
whitish pubescent racemes in the axils of the leaves or above the 
emargin 
the — spreading ones about 3 shorter, the central ridge 
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—Frequen the dry and Eng forests of the Prome District and a 
principal con cotituent of the upper dry forests.—Fl. March; Fr. March-Apr.— 
ASPIDOPTERYS, A. Juss. 
Calyx 5-parted, without glands. Petals sessile. Stamens 10, 
all perfect, free or shortly united at base. Ovary 3-lobed, the lobes 
complanate on the back and winged along the borders ; styles 3 
with capitate stigmas. Samaras 3, shield-shaped and_ broadly 
winged, often furnished with a wing-like small crest half-way 
between the wings.—Secandent shrubs. Stipules none. Flowers 
small, in terminal or axillary panicles or racemes. 
* Gynobase persistent after the fall of the samaras, coni 
oo acute, exserted, surrounded by 3 smooth acute disk- 
mentose beneath, acuminate; ovary hirsute . A. nutans. 
Leaves tomentose beneath, more or "less nc a apiculate ; 
ovary quite glabrous . A, tomentosa. 
* OK pharracemest absent after the fait of the samaras, or 
minute and shorter than the disk-lobes ; the thick 3- 
lobed often cup-shaped disk. Big ge wrinkled. 
x Sam as broad as 
All parts, Seo the ovary, quite glabrous ; disk i in fruit about a line 
Leaves more or ‘less puberulous on the nerves beneath; disk 
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X X Samara more than twice 30 long as "broad, not 
crested. ; 
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