Aspidopterys. | MALPIGHIACEH. 175 
* Gynobase persistent after the fall of the samaras, conical, 
ius exserted, surrounded by 3 smooth acute disk-lobes 
1. A. nutans, H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 421—A woody climber, ‘the 
younger rms ‘rusty woolly ; _ es ovate or ovate-oblong, on a 
narrow inconspicuous crest between the bro wh opaque chartaceous 
wings; gynobase pyramidal, very acute, glabrous ; the disk-lobes 
stiff, black, very acute, smooth. 
Has.—Chittagong and coi. Jan. 
2. A. tomentosa, A. Juss—A large woody climber with terete 
| brown stems, the younger parts rusty-tomentose ; aris obovate- 
| oblong or broadly oblong, rounded or almost cordate at base, 4-5 
| and often up to 6 in. long, on a rusty-tomentose i pot webst: 
petiole 3-1 in. long, shortly acuminate or usually apiculate, mem- 
branous, glabrous above, tomentose beneath; flowers small, white, © 
on long slender elabrescent pedicels, in poor umbellets ts, forming long 
tusty-woolly glabrescent panicles in the axils of the leaves or at the 
end of the branchlets; petals about 2 lin. _long; ovary perfectly 
glabrous ; 3 Samaras bro adly oblong, aboutan in. long, with a vertical 
wing-like small crest between the more or fie oi opaqu e brownish 
notched wings ; gynobase pyramidal, 3-sided, very acute, surrounded 
by the short indurated sharply 3-toothed disk. 
— .—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of Martaban.—Fl. March.—Fr. 
* * Gynobase absent after the fall of the samaras or minute and 
shorter than the disk-lobes, the thick S-lobed often cup- 
e shaped disk usually wrinkled 
A. uss.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i 420—A woody glabrous 
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cent aber in the axils of ai and at the end of the branches ; 
petals 2 lin. long; ovary quite glabrous ; samaras about an in. Jong 7 
