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: : . ide Zeylanica, 
Bracts small and deciduous ; flowers white or pale purplish ; seeds 
ensely brown-puberulous, hairy round the hilum , ‘ - A, tiliefolia, 
Bracts up to } in. long, persistent during flowering ; flowers pink 
seeds glabrous : . : : ° 
1. A. Zeylanica (lpomea Zeylanica, Gaertn.) —0O-ndé-hop-nway. 
—An extensive twiner, the young shoots sparingly appressed-hairy ; 
letie-a 
e, acute, 3 to 5 in. and sometimes up to a foot long and broad, 
nerves, very sparingly hairy; flowers rather large, pink, shortly 
pedicelled, forming a long (5-8 in.) peduncled, shghtly appressed- 
hairy, bracted cyme in the axils of the leaves, or sometimes the 
1} in. long and contracted near the base, the lobes of the lim 
triangular, blunt ; capsules berry-like, yellow, smooth, the size of a 
pea, usually 1-seeded ; seed almost globose, grey, smooth and glabrous. 
Var. 1, populifolia ; all parts nearly glabrous. 
ar. 2, hirsuta, Thw.: all parts, also the bracts and calyces, 
densely appressed-hirsute. 
Var. 3, peduncularis: leaves not or almost not cordate at the 
base, more elliptic, the petiole often longer than the blade. 
4B.—Not rare in the moister mixed forests, pecially the upper ones, of 
the Pegu Yomah; Ava.—Fl. C.S.—s: l—SS.—SiS. 
_ 2. A, tiliefoli Wight.— Toung-ka-cun-kyee,—An extensively 
twining shrub, a5 twisted and buttressed stems of 3 in. thick- 
ress, the y oung parts greyish pubescent ; bark rough; cut milky ; 
leaves cordate-rotundate, on a puberulous or pubescent petiole 1-2 
Tv: 
veins between ; flowers large, showy, usually white or pale pur- 
Plish, with a purple throat, on pubescent or greyish-tomentose 
Pedicels 3-5 lin, long, usually by 3-4 or fewer terminating the 
rt branches of the 2-forked or dichotomously branched more or 
less pubescent stout peduncle of 2-24 in. in length ; calyx nearly ¥ 
