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LXVI. PASSIFLORACE^. 

 1. MODECCA, Linn. 



1. M Palmata, Lain. — Root large, woody, fusiform, appearing 

 above the ground ; leaves from cordate acuminate (on young plants) 

 to palmately 3 to 5-lobed, smooth, with two flat glands at the base, 

 and one below each sinus between the lobes ; fruit globular, size of 

 a Crab-apple, of a bright orange-yellow. Rare, found only at 

 Malvvan and in southern jungles above the Ghauts ; in flower in 

 April. The description, under Graham's No. 625, refers to the 

 Trichosanthes. Syn. Modecca tuberosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, p 134. 



LXVII. BEGONIACE^. 



1. BEGONIA, Linn. 



L Crenata, Dryander. — First described from specimens taken 

 from Salsette to England by Dr. Hove in 1 789, vide Linn. Trans, 

 vol. r, p 162 ; a delicate herbaceous plant, with semicordate 

 leaves, and pink or white flowers. Common on rocks and trees in 

 the rainy season. 



2. Ijntegrifolia, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. vol. iii,p 230. — Root 

 tuberous ; stem herbaceous ; leaves obliquely ovate-obtuse, cordate 

 at the base, margins entire, hispid, with white hairs on both sides, 

 blood-red below, peduncles dichotomous ; flowers small, white ; 

 capsules glabrous, 3-winged, one of the wings larger than the others ; 

 stem 6 to 8 inches high ; leaves 7 inches long, 4 broad. On rocks 

 on the Ghauts ; flowers in the rains. Found also in Ceylon, 

 according to UeCandoUe, but not named in Thwaites' Enumeration. 



3. Tkichocarpa, Dalz. loc. cit. — Root tuberous ; stem herba- 

 ceous, half a foot high, leaf one radical, large, unequally cordate 

 acuininate, sinuate-dentate, wrinkled, minutely lacerated on the 

 margin, green on both sides, hispid on both sides ; flowers terminal 

 umbelled ; pedicels hispid, an inch long ; capsule hispid, with three 

 equal obtuse wings ; leaves 7 inches long and broad ; flowers white, 

 2 inches in diameter. Grows with the preceding. 



4. B CoNCANENSis, Al|)h. DC. in Annales des. Soc. Nat. Tom. 

 xi, p 126. — Tuberous ; stem short, herbaceous, smooth ; leaves 

 ovate acute-cordate, palmately 7 to 9-nerved, undulate-dentate, and 

 witli smaller teeth, hairy ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, bracts lanceolate, 

 slightly ciliated ; capsule turbinate, with the larger wing ovate- 

 triangular. This we do not know ; the specimens were from the 

 Hookerian herbarium. 



