150 
Srrc. Cuan. Leaves small, elliptical, obtuse: shoots elongated, 
twiggy: fruit without the additional wing. 
Courtallum. 
GENUS Il. HIRA. 
Deeandria Trigymia. Sez: Syst: 
Deriv. From Nicholas de la Hire, a French Physician. 
Gen. Cuar. Climbing shrubs with opposite leaves: calyx 
with or without glands: petals roundish, clawed: filaments awl- 
shaped, slightly connected at the base, alternately shorter: styles 
8, distinct: carpels samaroid, 1-seeded, crested or naked on the 
back, surrounded by a wing which is usually emarginate at the 
extremities. 
(1) H. Inpica. (Roxbd.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 108.—Roxb. fl. Ind. II. p. 448.—: 
Dee, prod. I. p. 585. 
Syn. Triopteris Indica, Willd.—Aspidopterys Roxburghiana, 
A. de Juss. 
Engrav. Roxb. Cor. II. t. 160.—Wight’s Icon. t. 381. 
_ Spec. Cuar. Leaves broadly-ovate, glabrous on both sides, ax- 
illary and terminal: calyx without glands: each carpel surrounded 
with an oblong-linear, entire wing. 
Coromandel Coast. Circars. Concans. 
(2) H. nurans. (Rozxb.) : 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 108.—Roxb, fl. Ind. II. p. 890.— 
Dec. prod. I. p. 585. 
Spzc. Cuan. Leaves broadly ovate, acuminated, upper side 
shining, with a few appressed hairs, under paler and hairy, the 
hairs fixed by their middle: panicles pendulous: calyx without 
glands: carpels surrounded with -an elliptical ring: flowers small, 
yellowish, 
Interior of Bengal, flowering in July. 
(3) H. corpata. (Heyne.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 108. 
Syn. Aspidopterys cordata, 4. de Juss. 
Engrav. Wall. pl. As. Rar. t. 13. 
_ Spec. Cuan. Leaves roundish, cordate, acuminated: upper 
side not shining, very slightly hairy: under side, as well as the 
petioles and panicles, tomentose: calyx without glands. 
Near Penn, Bombay Presidency. 
