600 LXiv. PASSiPLOREJi. (M. T. Masters.) [P/jwsj^ora. 



2. P. nepaleuais, Wall Tent. Fl. Nep. 20, t. 11 ; Cat. 1230; leavesi 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate entire glaucous leneath. Griffith Itin. notes, 24; 

 Ic. PL Asiat. t. 606, fig. 4. P. geminiflora, DmProdr. 63. 



NiPAL, WaUieh. Sikkim, alt. 4-6000 ft. Khasia Mts., alt. 3-6000 ft., H.f.^ T. 



A glabrous climber with slender angular branches and distant leaves. Stipules 

 ^ in., Unear-subulate. Leaves 2^-4 by 2-3 in., thin, membranous, deep green above, 

 glaucescent beneath, marked near the base with 2-3 flat circular glandsj rounded or 

 cordate at the base, apiculate, 1- or sub-3-nerved, nerves prominent, smaller nerves, 

 arched, remote, inconspicuous ; petiole ^ in., usually with two glands above the middle. 

 Peduncles simple, in pairs in the axils of the leaves, about half the length of the 

 petiole, slender, 1-flowered, jointed above the middle, rarely cymose; cymes lax, few- 

 flowered. Flowers less than ^ in. diam., cup-shaped ; tube short, cylindrical. Calyx- 

 lobes longer than the tube. Petals equal to the calyx-lobes. Corona of many rows of 

 short threads. Gynophore shorter than the flower. Ovary ovoid or subglobose, gla- 

 brous. Fruit subglobose, the size of a large pea, purplish. 



EXCT.UDED SPECIES. 



p. CALONEUBA, K^rz in Jowm. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 95, described as from " Burma 

 probably Upper Tenasserim or Martaban, Brandts," is, according to an authentic 

 specimen sent by Dr. Kurz from the Calcutta Herbarium, the Aristolochia trilohata, 

 L., of the West Indies and South America, no doubt introduced into India ; if is 

 not in flower or fruit, but the nervation of the leaf, no less than its form and in- 

 dumentum, leaves no doubt as to this identification. 



P. HEisBANA, Wall. Oat. 1233 bis (alias 2248) is an Olacinea, probably referable 

 to Firythropahim popmlifolium. Mast. 



2. PAXtOFSXA, mronh. 



Shrubs. Leaves simple. Flowers in dense axillary cymes. Calyx-tuie 

 short ; limb 5-parted. Petals 6, springing from the base of the calyx-tube. Co^ 

 rona of fine threads springing from the tube of the calyx and more or less divided 

 into five antipetaloua phalanges, ff^noja^ore short; filaments flat; anthers 

 oblo;ig. Owaj-y subglobose. <Sijr/e short dividing into three branches; stigmas 

 reniformi-capitate. Fh-uit capsular. — Distrib. 4 or 5 species, natives of tropi» 

 eal Africa and Malaya. 



1. P, malayana, Planch. ; Mast, in Trans. lAnn. Son. xxvii. 639 ; 

 leaves oblong finely serrated vyith a long abrupt acumen, calyx-tube campanu- 

 late, ovary globose., 



Malacca, Mainffay, Griffith. > 



A shrub. Leaves 3J by 1 in. ; pletiole | in. Flowers i in. in diam. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, tube short covered vrith tawny down; lobes oblong, obtnse, 4 Or 5 times 

 longer than the tube. Petals oblong, 1-i^erved, half the length of the sepals. Corona 

 of a single row of flat, villose threads, half the length of the petals and arising with 

 them from the margin of the tube. Gynophore shorter than the petals. Stamens 8; 

 filaments filiform ; anthers oblong. Ovary globose, villose. Stigmas large, capitate- 

 reniform. 



t2. P. vareciformla, Mast in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 639 ; leaves 

 oblong-obovate acuminate entire, calyx-tube very short, ovary ttirbinate. Tri- 

 chodia vareciformis, Oriff. Notvl. iv. 571. 



Haxacca, Griffith. 



Shrub, more or less rusty pubescent. Leaves 6 by 2^ in., coriaceous, glabrous 



