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at both ends, petioled, downy on both sides : flowers axillar 

 sessile, tetrandrous : fruit ovate, surrounded at the base by sever, 

 inflated permanent vesicles. 



Circar mountains. 



(32) P. phosa. fR.W.) 



Ident. Wight 1. o. No. 47. 



Spec. Chab. Diffuse, branched, climbing or spreading on the 

 ground: leaves ovate, sub-sessile, acute, pilose, those of the 

 extremities alternate, near the base opposite : flowers glomerate, 

 tetrandrous : fruit deeply furrowed or 4-winged with a 2-cleft 

 apioulus. 



Malabar ? 



(33) P. TETEAPTEEA. (R.W.J 



Ident. "Wight 1. c. No. 48. 



Spec. Chab. Erect or ascending, branched : leaves membranous, 

 pilose, nearly all alternate, a few of the lower pairs opposite, 

 longish-petioled, elliptic-lanceolate, acute at both ends, or some- 

 times ovate-lanceolate, upper ones much smaller and narrower than 

 the lower : flowers few, glomerate, axillary, sessile, tetrandrous : 

 fruit in the lower axUs prominently ribbed, in the upper ones 

 usually broadly 4-winged. 



Hills near Coimbatore, flowering in August and September. 



(34) P. JOHNSONIANA. fR.W.j 



Ident. Wight 1. c. No. 49. 



Spec. Chae. Decumbent: stems jslender, filiform, somewhat stri- 

 gose : leaves longish-petioled, "pilose, alternate, from oval obtuse to 

 ovate-lanceolate, sub-acute, floral ones reduced: flowers few, axillary, 

 sessile, males tetrandrous, with a conspicuous rudimentary pistil 

 woolly at the base : fruit ovate, compressed, furrowed or broadly 4- 

 winged, beaked. 



Cochin. 



(35) P. PYEAMIDATA. fR.W.j 



Ident. Wight 1. c. No. 50. 



Sec Chae. StraggUng, ascending or erect, branches slender, 4- 

 angled, deeply furrowed between : leaves alternate or flrst few pairs 

 opposite, lower ones short-petioled, ovate-lanceolate, upper ones 

 sessile, linear acute all roughish above, pilose beneath: stipules 



