Anisadenia] xxix. LiNEiE. .(J, D. Hooker.) 413. 



always sjmple, Jower part often creeping. Leaves approximate, spreading, elliptic- 

 lanceolate, actiminate,|_ glaucous beneath; margin quite entire or obscurely waved or 

 crisped, ifoceme 2-5 m. long, quite Bimpl'e. ^'lowers J-J diam., pink; pedio.el'ifery 

 short. Caiyx i in. \ong. 



2. A., pubescens, Griff. Notul. iv. 535 ; Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 593 (ng-Aif hand 

 figure) ; stem pubesceflt leafy all the way up, leaves- I-I5 in. ■withappressed 

 hairs above silkily villous beneath. 'i 



KhasiA Mt3., alt. 5-6P00 ft., Oriffith, &o. , ■ , 



MorB slender than A. saxatilis, stem elongate, prostrate, often inuch-hranched ;- 

 branches including the racemes 6-15 in. Leaves alternate, whitish beneath, elliptic,' 

 acute at both ends, margin quite entire, sometimes undulate, nerves very oblique ; petiole 

 J-^ in. Raceme very slender, simple above, the lower pedunolps 2-3-6owered, short, 

 erect, and as well as the rachis tomentose. Calyx J in. long, gland-tipped hairs more 

 robust than in A. saxatilis. Flowers ^ in. diam., white, much larger tl^aniiu A. saxa- 

 UUb. f 



4. UVGONIA, Linn. 



Climbing, often tomentose shrubs. Leave? alternate, serrate, stipulate. 

 Injtoresceiice various ; flowers yellow, lower peduncles converted into spiral 

 hooks. Sepals 5. Petals 5, contorted, fugacious. Stamens 10, hypogynous, 

 with glandular swellings on the basal riqg between th.e filaments, 

 ■which are connate below. Ovary 5-celled ; styles 5, filifbrm, stigmas 

 capitate ; ovules 2, collateral in each cell. Drupe globose. Seeds com- 

 pressed, albuminous ; embryo straight or slightly curved, cotyledons flat. — 

 BiSTBiB. Tropical Asia and Africa ; species about 6. „ 



1. K. lUystax, Linn. ; leaves elliptic-obovate or obovate-oblomg obtuse 

 or subacute quite entire reticulate on both surfaces. Wall. Gat. 1201 ; 

 W.& A.Prodr. 72; Wight III. I'd, \,. 32; Planch, in Rook. Irnid. Journ. 

 Bot. vii. 624; Dalz. & Oihs. Bomh. Fl&r. 17. Hi obovata, Ham. in Trdns. 

 Linn. Soc. xiv. 205. — Rheede Hort. Mai. ii. t. 19. - 1 

 ,' Webtehn PENiNBDLA, from the Concan to Travanoor. CEYLOif. 



■ A rambling leafy shrub ; branches, tendrils, and sepals densely clothed with brown' 

 tomentam. Lpaves crowded, 1^-24 in., rather thin, nel-ves spreading ; stipules subulate,! 

 undivided. Flowers 1-1 4 in. di.am., terminal and in the npper axils, shortly pedicelled; 

 yellow. , Stamens alternately long and short. Fruit globose, shorter than the. sepals. 



2. K. ferrug'inea, W. <& A. Prodr. 72 ; leaves elliptic long acuminatef 

 quite entire densely silkily villous beneath, veins arched not reticulate. ^ 



Ceylon, hotter and drier parts of the island. 



A rambliijg or climbing shrub ; branches, tendrils, and sepals densely velvety. Leaves 

 2-5 by 14-2 in., rather coriaceous, finely silky above when young, glabrous when old, 

 midrib and arched nerves strong ; stipules subulate. Flowers about half the size of 

 those of -3. Mystax. Z 



5. ROVCHEXtIA, Planch. 



Erect or climbing trees or shrubs with re volute woody teijdrils. Leaves 

 quite entire or glandular-serrate^ coriaceous, penninerved ; stipules minute, 

 caducous. Flmers axillary, yellow, subsessile, or in excessively short 

 fascicled spikes; pedicels bracteOlate, Sepals 6. Peters 5, hypogynous, 

 cdntoMed, fugacious. Stamens 10, all fertile, fikments connate into a short 

 tube below. Glands obsolete. Ovary 3^5-celled ; styles 3-6, filiforra, 

 stigmas cuneate, 2-lobed ; ovules' 2, collateraL Drupe scarcely fleshy, sub- 

 globose ; stone 3-6-angled, bony, cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds compressed, pen^ 

 dulous; albumen rather fleshy, embi;yo with foliaceous cotyledons and an 

 elongate radicle.— Disteib. 3 :or 4.species, one or more Malayan and Bornean, 

 and. 2 from Guiana. • ■ ■ ' 



