422 XXX. MALPIOHIACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Aspidopteryt. 



"VVestem Tropical Himalaya ; Garwhal and Kdmaok, ascending to 4500 ft., 

 Govan, &o. , , , r n 



A tall climber; branches white. Leaves 4-7 m., base rounded, undersurface usually 

 snow-white and silky, upper glabrous; petiole rarely 4 in. PamcU sometimes a foot 

 long, white, lax, verv graceful Flowers \ in. diam. ; pedicels rather stout, bracteoles 

 most minute. Samaras 1^-li bv l-lj in., variable in shape, sometimes narrowed at 

 OTie end or emarginate.— It is "not clear to what plant Wallich meant the name 

 lanuginosa to apply ; he has in his Herbarium two under that name, and both num- 

 bered 1058; of these, one from Govan, gathered, no doubt, in Kumaon, is identical 

 with his own (not Roxburgh's) Sircea nutans; the other, from Nipal, has a rustv to- 

 mentose panicle, and is probably the true nutans of Roxburgh ; indeed he tickets it m 

 mss. "prox nutanti, Boxh." As Wallich's and Jussieu's lanuginosa is certainly not 

 tlie very local and beautiful species here described, I have dedicated the latter 

 to Dr. Wallich. 



DOUBTFUIi AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



Imperfect specimen in young fruit of a plant from Poneshee in Birma, collected by 

 Dr. J. Anderson. Leaves orbicular, coriaceous, densely rusty tomentose beneath. 

 Unripe samaras oblong, with a dorsally winged nucleus. — Perhaps A. tomentosa, Juss., 

 Java. 



A Tenasserim or Andaman Island plant of Heifer, with orbicular leaves slightly cor- 

 date at the base, glabrous on both surfaces, except the costa beneath, which with the short 

 petioles shoots and'inflorescence are clothed with dense rusty tomentum. Samaras mem- 

 branous, orbicular, not concave, retuse at the top, nucleus with a prominent dorsal wing. 

 . — Perhaps a form of A, concava, J'lss. 



HiK.a3A FiHLAtsoHiANA, Wall. Cat. 7263, is a species of Nelitris. 



Order XXXI. ZYGOPHYLLE.S:. (By M. P. Edgeworth, F.L.S., 

 and J. D. Hooker.) 



Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees, branches usually articulate. Leaves opposite 

 or alternate by suppression, stipulate, 2-3-foliolate or pinnate ; leaflets entire, 

 not punctate ; stipules twin, persistent, sometimes spiny. Peduncles usually 

 1-2 in the axils of the .stipules, ebracteate rarely 2-bracteate. Flowers her- 

 maphrodite, regular or irregular, white, red or yellow, very rarely blue. 

 Sepals 5, rarely 4, free or rarely connate at the base, imbricate, rarely val- 

 vate. Petals 5-4, very rarely 0, hypogynous, Iree, imbricate or contorted, 

 rarely valvate. Bisk convex or depressed, rarely annular or 0, without glands. 

 Stamens equal to or double or rarely three times as many as the petals, 

 inserted at the base of the disk, often alternately longer, those opposite to 

 the petals often connate at the base to the petals, filaments usually with a 

 scale at the base or middle; anthers versatile, opening longitudinally. 

 Ovary sessile or rarely stipitate on a short gynophore, furrowed angled or 

 winged, 4^5- (rarely 2-12-) celled, cells very rarely with partial transverse 

 septa, narrowing into a terminal angled or furrowed style ; stigma simple, 

 rarely discoid or stigmas 5 ; ovules i or more, rarely 1, usually fihform, 

 pendulous or ascending, raphe ventral with a superior micropyle. Ffuii 

 never berried, coriaceous or crustaceous, either of 2-10 free or united often 

 spiny cocci, or capsular and septicidaUy dehiscent. Seeds usually pendulous, 

 solitary, rarely twin or more, oblong or linear, the raphe adnate or free ; 

 testa membranous crustaceous or thick and mucous; albumen scanty rarely 

 ; embryo the length of the seed, green, straight or rarely curved, cotyledons 

 oblong or linear thick or foliaceous, radicle very short, straight, superior. — 



