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12. C. quadran Kz.—A somewhat scandent shrub, all 
softer parts more or less corel with silvery scales and dotted, the 
branchlets sharply 4-cornered ; leaves opposite or rarely alternate, 
small, obovate-cuneate or rarel ovate, on a short but slender lepi- 
dote petiole usually blunt or almost retuse and mucronate, entire, 
14-3 in. long, chartaceous, on both sides (beneath rather densely) 
ea. with silvery orbicular scales, and dotted; flowers small, 
white (?), supported by a subulate very fugaceous bract, forming - 
simple, densely lepidote, solitary or paired spikes in the axils of the 
leaves and shorter than them; calyx funnel-shaped, hardly a line 
long, densely agate the limb 4-toothed, densely tawny villous 
inside; petals somewhat longer than the 8-angular calyx-teeth, 
obovate ; tiadens exserted ; fruits small, 4-3 in. “long and broad, 
almost orbicular, appearing whitish from numerous silvery seales: 
4-winged, the wings chartaceous, broader than the diameter of 
the nut. 
Has.—Tenasserim.—Fl. Apr.-May. 
13. C. costatum, Roxb.—A large woody climber, the young 
shoots rusty powdery and usually minutely scaly ; leaves opposite 
or nearly so, ean to elliptically oblong, on a 3-5 lin. long strong 
petiole, bluntish cuspidate or acuminate, entire, chartaceous, 6-9 in 
long, glabrous, bonaath along the prominent. nerves more or less 
puberulous, but soon glabrescent, strongly. transversely parallel- 
veined ; flowers small, yellowish, supported b a thick, linear, short 
bract, in minutely scaly spikes usually arising on separate axillary 
leafy ‘shoots and forming some sort of a leafy axillary panicle ; calyx 
minutely scaly, cupular-funnel-shaped, 4-toothed, the teeth short 
and broad, acute; tube oblong, bluntish, 4-cornered. the limb 
glabrous inside ; petals minute, yellow, lanceolate, acute; fruits 
linear-oblong, from 14-1% in. long, glabrous, 4-angled, the angles 
thickened, solid and blunt, sharp and narrowed towards their upper 
end, about as broad as the diameter of the nut or narrower. 
Has.—Tenasserim.—Fr. Apr. re 
C. Wallichii, DC.—A large scandent shrub, the young 
shoots rusty puberulous; leaves elliptical to élliptically oval, on 
a strong short petiole, rounded or obtuse the base, shortly 
and rather abruptly acuminate or apiculate, 4-6 in. long, charta- 
ceous, puberulous chee and giabrescent ; flowers small, rusty 
puberuls site dhe by linear-subulate bracts longer than the 
_ tube and forming axillary solitary perigee racemes shorter 
than the Isres and often collected into terminal panicles; calyx 
lepidote and obscurely rusty puberulous outside the limb angular, 
Sothed, densely poo agree inside; petals small, obovate-_ 
eat ; fruits dry-chartaceous, rotundate in outline, — 
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