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with hairyish petioles : leaves obliquely ovate, obtuse or rarely 

 subacute, cordate, palmately 7— 8-nerved, entire, or here and 

 there denticulate, beneath roughish at the nerves : stipules ovate 

 or elliptic, obtuse: peduncles longer than the petioles, 2 — 3- 

 dichotomous : bracts elliptic, ciliolate, caducous : sepals of male 

 flowers round : petals obovate-oblong, shorter : bracteoles of fe- 

 male flowers distant, caducous : lobes' obovate : capsule nodding, 

 3 wings lateral, 1 afterwards larger, descending, rounded. 

 Toot of the Syhadree hill, in Western India. 



(18) B. CEENATA. {Dryander.) 



Ident. Dryander in Trans. Linn. Soc. I. p. 162. t 14. fig. 3. — 

 Dec. 1. e. p. 356. 



Spec. Chau. Annual (p), subtuberose: stem low, slender, 

 erect, glabrous : leaves ovate, obtuse or acute, lower ones cordate, 

 upper ones obtuse at the base, palmately 7 — 8-nerved, irregularly 

 crenato-denticulate, glabrous above, beneath together with the 

 petioles here and there pilose, or glabrous : stipules ovate or 

 oblong : peduncles slender, many -flowered : bracts lanceolate : 

 sepals of male flowers 2, broad ovate : petals 2, obovate, shorter : 

 female flowers not bracteolate : lobes 5, outer ones accrescent : 

 capsule subglobosely 2 — 3-winged, not greater than the persistent 

 lobes, wings expanded below, obtuse. 



Salsette. Concans. 



(19) B. Canaeana. (Miq.) 



Ident. Miq. Ann. Bot. III. p. 18.— Dec. 1. c. p. 356. 



Spec. Char. Eoot very small, tuberous and fibrillose : stem 

 slender, erect, simple : leaves ovate-rotund, palmately 7-nerved, 

 somewhat regular, cordate, sinuately angled, crenate and denti- 

 culate, above sparingly, beneath rarely pilose at the nerves : 

 stipules and bracts ovate-lanceolate, acute : peduncles long, 

 slender, 2 — 3 times dichotomous at the top : sepals of male 

 flowers 2, ovate or obovate : petals 2, narrow-obovate, shorter : 

 female flowers not bracteolate : lobes 4, outer 2 — 3 ovate, accre- 

 scent, coloured externally, inner 2 — 1 obovate, shorter : capsule 

 turbinately globose, torose, 2 — 3 winged, not larger than the 

 lobes, afterwards laterally expanding below, unequal, middle- 

 sized. 



Canara. Mangalore. 



(20) B. STJBPELTATA. (R. W.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 386. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1812. 



Spec. Chab. Perennial, tuberous, stemless : petiole of a 

 single leaf long, hairy, limb ovate-rotund, palmately-nerved, 

 cordate, serrato-dentate, hairy, hairs of the petiole more frequent 



