Aspidopterys.] xxx. MALPfoHiACEiB. (J. D. Hooker.) 431 



** Leaves hairy tomentose or pubescent beneath. 



4. A. liirsuta,^. Jws. m Archiv. Mus. Nat. Hist. iii. 512, t. 17 ; clotherl 

 with long spreading flaccid hairs, leaves .broadly obovate or oblong or 

 orbicular-obovate abruptly acuminate cordate at the very base, ovary 

 gUbrous, samaras linear-oblong, nucleus without dorsal crest or wing. 

 Hirsea hirsuta. Wall. PI. As. Rar. i. 13, t. 13 ; Cat. 1059. 



BiKMA, on the Taong dong and the Prome Mts., Wallich. 



Shoots very slender. Leaves 4r-7 in., clothed on both surfaces with long soft haii'S, 

 membranous ; petiole i in. Inflorescence an open lax panicle, with regular opposite 

 spreading branches ; bracts at the base of the branches J-i in., lanceolate ; branches 

 with many opposite bracteoles above the middle. Flowers ^ in. diam. , subumbellate, 

 glabrous, white. Samaras 1^-2 by J-| in., sides almost parallel. 



.5. A. cordata, A. Jitss. in Archiv. Mus. Nat. Hist. iii. 513 ; shoots 

 inflorescence and leaves beneath clothed with white appressed tomentum, 

 leaves orbicular-cordate with a broad acumen, panicle effuse, ovary villous, 

 samaras orbicular or nearly so, nucleus not winged or keeled. Hirsea cur- 

 data, Heyne in Wall. Gat. 1060; Wall. PI. As. Rar. i. 13. H. nutans. 

 Wall. Oat. 1058, 2. 



Western Peninsula ; Concan, Canara, and Mysore. 



A slender climber. Leaves 5-8 in. diam., the younger ovate-cordate, all rather 

 abruptly terminated by a broad acuminate tip, opaque, and sometimes pubescent above ; 

 petiole I-I4 in. Inflorescence a lax pendulous panicle, sometimes rusty ; bracts at the 

 branches filiform or 0, pedicels very variable. Flowers J in. diam. Samaras pale, 

 1-1^ in. diam., sometimes slightly oblong. 



6. A. nutans, Hookf. {not of A. Juss.) ; young shoots and inflorescence 

 tomentose, leaves ovate elliptic or orbicular with a broad based acumen 

 base not cordate silkily pubescent beneath, panicle effuse, ovary villous, 

 samaras oblong or suborbiculftr, nucleus not or rarely ridged or with a 

 small vfing at the base. A. Eoxburghiana, A. Juss. in part. A. lanu- 

 gino-sa, A. Juss. I.e. 512. Hirsea nutans, Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 447 [not of 

 Wallich). H. indica. Wall. Gat. 1057 inpaH. H. lanuginosa. Wall. Gat. 1058. 

 in part (a very vHlous-leaved form, from Nepal). 



NiPAL, WalliA:h; Sikkim Himalaya, alt. 2000 ft., J.D.H.; Bastekn Bengai,, 

 Assam, aud Chittagohg, Roxburgh, &c. ; Bikma, at Bhamo, T. Anderson. _ 



Very similar to A. cordata, but usually less tomentose, leaves even larger, attaining 

 10 in. diam., with often rusty tomentum on the nerves and rather thin long hairs be- 

 tween them ; upper surface reticulate and rather shining ; petiole of the larger leaves 

 2 in. Samaras IJ by 1 in., usually oblong, sometimes almost orbicular.— Walhoh says, 

 under his S. indica (Cat. 1057), " An plus una species sub hac confusa ;" and so it is, 

 from wanting fruit of any of his specimens ; five sheets thus named appertain to this 

 species. . 



Vae. rotundifolia; leaves more villous beneath, samara with a small dorsal wmg or 

 crest, a: rotundifolia, A. Juss. I.e. 514; Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 448. Hirsea orbiculata, 

 Moxb. Hort. Beng. 90 ; Wall. PL As. Bar. ii. 13.— Chittagong, Roxburgh. 



.7. A. Walllcliii, Hodk.f.; shoots slender, inflorescence and leaves be- 

 neath densely clothed with appressed more or less silky white tomentum, 

 leaves ovate acute or acuminate base subcordate, panicle graceful effuse pen- 

 dulous, ovary densely hispid with long white deciduous hairs, samaras 

 orbicular^oblong, nucleus without crest or wing. A. nutans, ■^■•J'"^?^- *f- 

 513. Hirrea nutans. Wall. PI. As. Par. i. 13 ; Cat. 1056, 1, not of Roxburgh. 

 H. lanuginosa, Wall. I.e. ; Cat. 1058 in part. 



