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smaller- and cordate, acute, all downy on the nerves beneath and 

 scabrous above : flowers tetrandrous, axiUary, sessile, few : oalycine 

 lobes lanceolate acute : fruit ovate and winged. 



Courtallum. 



(14) P. ASPEEA. fKW.J 



Ident. Wight 1. c. No. 15. 



Spec. Chae. Erect, very ramous, terminal shoot long and 

 slender : stem and branches terete, very rough : leaves temate, 

 rarely opposite, sessile, broad 'ovate-cordate, acute, 5 -nerved at the 

 base, rough on both sides, liiose on the flower-hearing branchlets 

 much reduced, even to mere scales, cordate acute : flowers tetran- 

 drous : fruit aU ovate, ribbed not winged. 



• Annamullay hills, flowering in July. 



(15) P. DALZELLII. fR.W.J 



Ident. Wight 1. e. No. 21. 



Spec. Char. Procumbent, glabraus : leaves snbsessUe, ovate or 

 cordate-ovate, acute, glabrous except a line of prickly hairs on the 

 margin : fiored leaves small, sessile, broad cordate at the base, acute : 

 flowers axillary, few, pentandrous : fruit ovate, broadly ribbed or 

 winged, famished between with a thick spongy protuberance. 



Canara. 



(16) P. SCABBA. ("M-WJ 



Ident. Wight 1. o. No. 22. 



Spec Chak. Erect, scarcely branched : stems terete, glabrous : 

 Iiower leaves short-petioled, ovate, obtuse at the base, pointed: 

 scabrous above, roughly pilose beneath, flower-bearing portion long 

 and slender with minute bract-like sessile cordate leaves : fascicles 

 few-flowered : flowers tetrandrous : fruit winged, inconspicuously 

 winged between. 



Annamullay mountains, flowering in July and August. 



(17) P. CAiTDATA. (Bennett.) 

 Ident. Wight 1. c. No. 22. 



Sec. Chae. Erect, branched : stems terete, glabrous : leaves 

 sessile, sub-cordate, truncate at the base, lanceolate acute or acumi- 

 nate, membranous, smooth and glabrous on both sides : flower- 

 bearing shoots slender, with minute bract-like cordate acute leaves : 

 flowers tetrandrous : fruit simply ovate, ribbed and winged in the 

 same fascicles. 



CourtaUum. Annamullay mountains. Plowering in September. 



