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simple or rarely divided hirsute racemes usually arising’ above the 
scars of the fallen leaves or from the leaf-axils; calyx hirsute or 
villous ; drupes the size of a pea, irregularly ovate, glabrous, black. 
_H4B.—Not uncommon in the tropical forests of the Pegu Yomah; also 
ttagong.—Fr, Febr.-March.—-s : ].—SS. = SiS. 
IODES, BI. 
Flowers dioecious. Calyx 4-5-cleft, short. Petals 4 or 5, free, 
or at base united in a short tube, valvate. Males: Stamens 4 or 
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nut. Albumen fleshy.—Secandent shrubs with entire leaves. 
Flowers small, cymose or panicled, the lower peduncles often re- 
duced to tendrils. 
Leaves membranous, on slender rather long petioles, thinly puber- 
= beneath ; flowers on slender about $ lin. long pedicels. Z. 
Hap.—Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. Febr. 
2. I. Brandisii, Kz.; Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 596.—A climber, all softer 
parts thinly and shortly pubescent ; leaves oblong, obtuse at base, 
on a rather slender pubescent petiole 4-3 in. long, 4-6 in. long, 
mucronate-acuminate, entire, thin-membranous, the nerves above 
and the whole under-surface thinly and minutely puberulous, green, 
inently and laxly net-veined; flowers minute, pubescent, on 
