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Spec. Cuan. Climbing to an immense extent:: young shoots 
peduncles petioles and tendrils rusty-tomentose: leaves roundish,. 
deeply cordate at the base, tomentose beneath: leaflets oval, united: 
to a little above the middle, 4—6-nerved = tendrils opposite, below. 
the leaves: racemes terminal: pedicels long, and with the calyx. 
densely villous: calyx splitting to the base of the limb into 2 re. 
ftexed segments: petals cuneate-obovate, densely clothed on the 
back with long silky hairs, three upper ones slightly larger than the 
rest: fertile stamens 3, long, ascending, villous at the base, with. 
2-7 short sterile filaments: style slightly flexuose: legume pendue. 
lous, long, linear, compressed, woedy, villous, 8-12 seeded: flowers. 
largish, white, gradually becoming eream-coloured. 
Circars. Ravines at Khandalla. Morung mountains. Northern: 
India. The branches are very extensive, from 1 to-300 feet long,. 
climbing over the highest trees. The leaves are a foot or a foot 
and a halfin diameter. They are tough and durable and in the 
Northern Circars are sold in the bazaars for: plates, lining baskets, 
thatching houses, &c. ‘he flowers appear in March and April,. 
(Roxb.) : 
(10) B..ancuina. (Rozb.) 
Tdent. W. & A. prod. I. p. 298.—Roxb. fl. Tad. I. p. 328.— 
Dee. prod. FI. p. 516. 
Engrav. Roxb. Cor. TIT. t. 285.—Rheede Mal. VIIT. t. 30, 31. 
Spec. Cuar. Climbing: leaves cordate, glabrous: leaflets 3- 
nerved, half-ovate, acuminated, united on the young plants to the 
middle, on the older ones. te the apex: tendrils simple or bifid :- 
racemes long, simple, many-flowered, forming a terminal panicle ; 
calyx cup-shaped, obtusely 5-lobed+ petals obovate: stamens 3,. 
all fertile: legume oblong, glabrous, 1-2-seeded : flowers very small, . 
white. 
Malabar. South Concans. Assam. Flowering in the. rainy 
season. 
(11) B. retusa. (Rozb.) 
Ident. Roxb. fi. Ind. H. p. 322.—Dee. prod. II. p. 515. 
Spec. Cuan. Tree: leaves cordate at the base, emarginate or 
retuse at the apex, coriaceous, glabrous: leaflets almost connected 
to the top, 5-nerved, broadly semi-ovate: panicle lax, terminal: 
petals ovate, unguiculate: anther-bearing stamens: 3, the rest ste- 
rile : flowers small, pale-yellow, purple-dotted. 
Bengal, flowering nearly all the year. 
GENUS LXXXVIII. ACROCARPUS. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Sez: Syst: 
Deriv. From Akron, a summit, and Carpos, fruit; in allusion to 
the position of the pods, , 
