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late or oblong, puberulous, deflexed. Stamdtigeeotts flowees. 

 Stamens 2 — 3, more tender. Pistii,ligeeotjs flowees. Germen as 

 in the perfect flowers, 'Vithout the rudiments of stamens : berries 

 sessile, oblong or globose, pulpy: seed conformable, integument 

 membranaceous or thickly coriaceous: albumen homy-mealy, radiate. 

 — Scandent shrubs, seldom small trees : leaves alternate, petioled, 

 usually coriaceous, multipli or digitinerved, glabrous or pubescent, 

 stipules petiolar adnate and leaf-opposed, deciduous : aments leaf- 

 opposed, peduncled, most frequently pendulous, filiform : berries 

 remote, sessile. 



(1) P. ssxtbstee. (Lam.) 



Ident. Miquel in Hook Joum. Bot. r. p. 552. 



Engrcm. "Wight's Icon, t, 1937. 



Si'EC. Chae. Stem shrubby, scandent, rooting : leaves membra- 

 naceous, pellucid-dotted, glabrous, green above, glaucous beneath, 

 ovate-acuminate, oblique at the base, or in the lower ones somewhat 

 cordate and equal, 7-nerved, the three middle ones extending to the 

 apex : male catkins peduncled, filiform, pendulous : bracts linear- 

 oblong: female about the length of the leaves, bracts oblong, 

 roughish beneath : stigmas 4, reflexed, deciduous. 



Courtallum. "Western Ghauts, climbing on trunks of trees. 



(2) P. HooKEEi. fMiq.J 



Ident. Miq. 1. c. iv. p. 437. — Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 315. 



Spec. Chae. Branches, petioles, peduncles and nerves on the 

 under side of the leaves hairy: leaves between coriaceous and 

 membranaceous, thickly pellucid-dotted, smooth above, broadly 

 ovate and equal-sided, shortly acuminate, the acumen obtuse, 5 — 7- 

 nerved : peduncle longer than the petiole : bracts oblong, decurrent 

 and adnate : ovary ovate : stigmas 4, short, thick, puberulous. 



Mahableshwar hUls. 



(3) P. ATTEifTTAnjit. (Sumilt.) 



Ident. Hamilt. in "Wight Icon. vi. t, 1933. 



Spec. Chae. Scandent, rooting and giving off suckers, young 

 shoots glabrous : leaves membranaceous, obsoletely pellucid-dotted, 

 glabrous above, the petioles veins and nerves beneali roughish, the 

 lower ones long-petioled, cordate, ovate-acuminate, 9-nerved, upper 

 ones broadly ovate, truncated at the base, 7 or septuple-nerved : 

 female catkins slender, filiform, short-peduncled, peduncle much 

 shorter than the leaves : bracts adnate, oblong : ovary elliptic : 

 stigmas 4, roundish, reflexed. 



Eastern slopes of the Neilgherries. 



