253 



(4) P. THIOICTTM. (Roxb.) 



Ident Eoxb. flor. Ind. I. p. 157. 



Engrav. "Wight's Icon, t, 1935 — 6. 



Spec. Chae. Skru'bby, sarmeatose, and creeping: leayea 

 coriaceous, dark green above, light glaucous below, somewhat 

 obliquely elliptic, acuminate, rounded or sub-acute at the base, 

 the upper ones lanceolate-oblong, 5- 7- tuple-nerved: catkins 

 trioicous : males filiform, females more rigid and shorter : bracts 

 3 series, of the hermaphrodite 4 series, the younger ones delicately 

 ciliate, some glabrous : floriferous pit rough : ovary sub-globose, 

 3 — 4 stigmas : floriferous calycule of the hermaphrodite catkins 

 2-lobed. 



Circars. Southern. Peninsula in forests. 



,(5) P. NiaEtrif. (Linn.) 



Ident. Eoxb. flor. Ind. I. p. 150. 



Bngrm. "Wight's Icon, t, 1934.— Eheede Mai. vii. t, 12. 



Spec. Chak. Shrubby, climbing, rooting : leaves coriaceous, 

 glabrous, pale glaucou§ beneath, lower ones roundish-ovate, about 

 equal-sided, slightly cordate or truncated at the base, septuple or 

 noveno-nerved, namely the three middle ones separating above the 

 base and extending to thp point, upper ones ovate-elliptic, usually 

 unequal-sided, acutely acuminate, 7 — 5-nerved : catkins hermaphro- 

 dite or female, filiform, pendulous, shortly peduncled, shorter than 

 the leaves: bracts linear-oblong, yellow on the margin: rachis 

 between the bracts rough : stamens 2, thick, stigmas 3 — 4, rarely 

 5, thick, lanceolate : berries globose, red when ripe : floriferous 

 calycule in the hermaphrodite catkins 4-lobed. 



Malabar forests. 



(6) P. Nepaiense. fMiq.J 



Ident. Miq. in "Wight Icon. vi. t, 1938. 



Spec. Chae. Younger leaves membranaceous, adult ones mem- 

 branaceo-coriaceous, glabrous on both sides, peUucid-dotted, lower 

 ones obliquely ovate or eUiptic-ovate, nearly equal and rounded at 

 the base, acuminate, and like those of the branches 7-tuple-nerved, 

 those of the male plant narrower : female catkins erect, afterwards 

 spreading about the length of the leaves : bracts oblong, beneath, 

 and the rachis roughish : ovary acuminate : stigmas 3^4, lanceo- 

 late, deflexed, pubescent : berries ovate, acute. 



Courtallum, in dense forests, cUmbing on trees. 



