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styles shorter than the stamens, free nearly to the base: stigmas 
recurved, clavate. ; 
Courtallum, in thick jungles. 
ORDER XXXI. MALPIGHIACE. 
Small trees or shrubs, occasionally climbing, with simple, op- 
posite, usually stipulate leaves: sepals 5, persistent, imbricated 
in estivation: petals 5, hypogynous, with claws, occasionally 
wanting: stamens hypogynous, with distinct or slightly mona- 
delphous filaments: ovary 1, usually 3-lobed, consisting of 3 
carpels, more or less combined: ovules solitary: styles 3, dis-’ 
tinct or united: fruit dry or fleshy, of 3 distinct carpels or 3- 
celled: seeds solitary, pendulous: albumen none. 
GENUS I. HIPTAGH. 
Deeandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Hiptamai, to fly, alluding either to the shape of 
the petals, or the fruit which is winged. 
Gxy. Car. Climbing shrubs: calyx furnished with 5 glands 
at the base on the outside: petals unequal, fringed: one stamen 
much longer than the others: styles united: carpels dry, unequally 
3-winged, with or without a central wing between the two lateral 
ones. > , 
(1) H. Mapasrora. ( Gaertn. ) 
Ident, W.& A. prod. L p. 107.—Dec. prod. I. p. 588. 
Syn. Molina racemosa, Cav. Diss. —Gaertnera racemosa, Roxb. 
fi. Ind. TT. p. 868.—Banisteria Bengalensis, Linn.—B. upiespatir 
laris, Lam. 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. VI. t. 59.—Roxb. Cor. I. t. 18,— 
Wight’s Ill. I. t. 50. 
Spec. Cuar. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminated : 
fruit with the additional wing somewhat conspicuous : ‘flowers white 
with a tinge of sulphur, fragrant. 
Coromandel. Western Ghauts. Hindostan. Flowering nearly 
all the year. 
(2) H. parviroria. (W. & A.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 107, 
