644 XLii. RHAMNEiE. (M. A. Lawson.) [Gouania. 



Teopical HraAtATA, from Kumaon to Assam and the Khasia Mts^ ascending to 

 4000 ft. ; Bauda, Bjema, Tesabseeim, and the Malay Peninsula.— Disteib. Java, 



Philippines. . . ^ l j * ^ ^i. 



Branches glabrous. Leaves 3-4 by l|-2 m., ovate, acuminate, subcordate at the 

 base, serrulate. .Bocemes slightly puberulous ; bracteoles conspicuouB, subulate. Calyx 

 glabrous or with a very few scatttered hairs on the outside. Petals hooded. Styles J the 

 length of the calyx-segments. Fruit glabrous. 



3. G. napalensis, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii 417; Cat. 

 4272 ; flowers pubescent, disk glabrous the lobes linear acuminate, style- 

 arms jnucli elongated. 



NiPAt, Wailich. Sjkkim, Oriff. 



Leaves longer and the flowers a little larger than in the last species, and the styles 

 twice as long. 



12. HEIiXNVS, E. Meyer. 



Unarmed scandent cirrhose shrubs, with slender angular branches. Leaves 

 alternate, entire. Flowers umbellate, on long slender peduncles. Calyx 

 superior, tube broadly obconic. Petals 5, inserted upon the margin of the 

 disk, hooded. Stamens 5, equalling the petals. Disk epigynous, filling the 

 calyx-tube. Ovary 3-celled ; style short, 3-cleft, stigmas recurved. FruU 

 inferior, obovoid-globose, 3-ceUed ; cells 1-seeded, coriaceous, tardily de- 

 hiscing. — DiSTETB. Species 3, two African, and one North Indian. 



1. K. lanceolatus, Brand. For. Fl. 574. Gouania lanceolata, Wall. 

 Cat. 4273. 



The Pahjab, Odde, and the Westekh Himaxata from Kashmir to Kmnaon, alt. 

 1-4000 ft. 



The whole plant quite glabrous, or the youngest parts of the shoots and flowers 

 pubescent. Leaves 1-1| by J-f in., ovate to ovate-lanceolate. 



Oeder XLin. AMPEUDi:.a:. (By M. A. Lawson, P.L.S.) 



Small trees or shrubs, usually climbing by means of tendrils, more rarely 

 radicant (sometimes herbaceous in Leea); juice copious, watery. Stems 

 angled compressed or cylindric, with numerous very large proper vessels. 

 Leaves alternate, usually petioled, simple or digitately or pedately 3-9-foUo- 

 late, rarely pinnate or decompound. Flowers umbellately- paniculately- or 

 spicately-cymose. Peduncles often transformed into simple or compound 

 tendrils or adhering to rocks or trees by viscid pads terminating the 

 ultimate segments, or expanded into a broad floriferous membrane (Pteri' 

 santhes). Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, rarely unisexual. Calyx small, 

 entire or 4-5-toothed or- lobed. Petals 4-5, distinct, or cohering, valvate, 

 caducous. Stamens 4-5, opposite the petals, inserted at the base of the 

 disk or between its lobes, filaments short subulate ; anthers free or connate. 

 2-ceUed, introrse. Bisk free or connate with the petals stamens or ovary, 

 annular or variously expanded. Ovary 2-6-ceUed ; style short, slender 

 conical or 0, stigma minute or large and flat, snblobed ; . ovules 1-2 in 

 each cell, ascending, anatropal, raphe ventral. Berry 1-6-celled ; cells 

 1-2-seeded. Seed erect, often rugulose, albumen cartilaginous ; embryo 

 short basal, cotyledons ovate. — Distkib. Species about 250, inhabiting 

 the tropical and temperate regions of the whole world. 



