4i30 XXX. MALPiGHiACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Aspidopterys: 



surrounded witli a broad oblong or orbicular wing. Seeds oblong, subterete ; 

 etubryo straight, cotyledons equal, radicle short.— Disteib. Species about 

 15 ; aU tropical Asiatic. 



* Leaves glabrous beneath, or nearly so. 



1. A. Rozburg'hiana, A. Jms. in Archiv. Mus. Hist. Nat. iii. 511 ; 

 shdots usually glabrous, inflorescence rusty-tomentose, leaves ovate or 

 elliptic-ovate acuminate, midrib beneath glabrous or pubescent, ovary 

 hairy, samara linear-oblong, nucleus not dorsally winged or keeled. 

 Hirsea indica, Roxb. HoH. Beng. 90 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 448 ; Gor. PL ii. 160 ; Wall. 

 PL As. Rar. i. 13. Aspidopteris oxypbylla, A. Juss. Lc. 510. Hirsea oiy- 

 phylla. Wall. Gat. 7264 (a more slender form). 



SiKKiM Himalaya, MisHMiand KhasiAiMts., alt. 1-5000 ft. , Birma, Saluen river, 

 Wallieh; Westkkn I'ENiKsni.A, Caknatic, Obibsa, and Coscan. 



A slender climber. Leaves 3-4 in., vaiiable in breadth, aoufe or rounded at the 

 base, undersuiface when very young slightly pubpscent, when old quite glabrous or 

 the centre only; petiole J-^ in., glabrous or pubescent. Panicles effuse, rusty- 

 tcimentose. Flowers J in. diam. Fruit variable, much narrower in the Peninsular 

 than in the Bengal specimens. — I have given the Bombay habitat on the authority of 

 the Bombay Flora. 



Vae. 1. Samara 2 by 4 in. sides nearly parallel. — Western Peninsula. 



Vae. 2. Samara 1^-2 by |-1 in. more elliptic-oblong often narrowed either above 

 or below. A. glabriusoula, A. Juss. I.e. 511 ; Hirsea glabriuscula, WaU. Cat. p. 260, 

 6626 — Khasia Mts., Sikkim. 



Var. 3. Leaves more rounded, samara Ii by 4-| in. — Assam. 



J ussieu describes the ovary of Var. 2 as glabrous, but it is clothed with deciduous 

 hairs, as in all the vars, Wallich's Assam specimen under this name is referable to 

 A. nutans. 



2. A. concava, A. Juss. in Archiv. Mus. Hist. Nat. iii. 509 ; shoots 

 glabrous, leaves ovate obtuse or obtusely-acuminate quite glabrous, buds 

 rusty-tomentose, samaras orbicular very membranous transparent very 

 concave, nucleus winged in the concavity. Hirsea concava, Wall. PL As. 

 Rar. i. 13; Cat. 1061. , H. Merguensis, Wight 111. L 139. 



Birma, at Martaban, Wallieh; Tenasserim, at Mergai, Griffith. 



1 have seen only imperfect specimens, Wallich's are in young bud only ; Griffith's 

 in old fruit. Leaves 'S-i in. ; petiole quite glabrous. Fruit on very long capillary 

 pedicels, l-lj in. diam., beautilully hyaline with radiating veins. — I do not observe the 

 plication of the leaves described by Jussien, who suspected that this was Blume's 

 elUptica ; but that is described as having much larger samaras, with a dorsal crest 

 6-7 lines long. 



3. A. canarensis, Dak. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. iii. 37 ; glabrous 

 almost throughout, shoots stout woody, leaves ovate or elliptic-lanceolate 

 obtusely acuminate-, inflorescence reduced to axillary fascicles, ovary 

 glabrate, samara suborbicular very membranous, nucleus with a dorsal 

 wing. A. glomerata, Wight Ic. t. 1986. 



Western Peninsula; Canaba, Daleell; Malabak and Mysore, Wight. 



JBranchlets flexuous, hard, with funowed bark. Leaves 3-4 in., sometimes elliptic- 

 obovate, base acute or rounded, rather coriaceous, pale ; petiole J in. Pedicels slender, 

 4 in., glabrous, braoteolate towards the base, crowded on very short, simple or divided, 

 )iiibesceut axillary peduiicles that are clothed with minute bracts. Flowers ^ in. 

 diam /Samaras 1^-1^ in._ diam., margin even or lobed towards the apex. — A very re- 

 markable and distinct species.' 



