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(8) D. PENTAPHYIIA. fWilld.) 



Ident. Willd. Spec. iv. 789.— Eoxb, 1. e. p. 806. 



Ungrav. 'Wight's Icon. t. 814. — ^Kheede Mai. vii. t. 36. 



' _ Spec. Chab. Branches pricHy, furrowed, rsither hairy : leaves 

 digitate, 5-di-vided, membranaceous, puberulous, segments oblong- 

 acuminate, cuspidate : stipulary prickles twiu : female spikes 

 axillary, twin, simple, scarcely longer than the petiole : male 

 flowers numerous, greenish white, very fragrant. 



Concan. Ghaiits. Monghyr. Vendalore. SUhet. Flowering 

 in theTainy season. 



(9) D. ACTJLBAiA. (Linn. J 



Ident. Linn. Spec. 1462. 



Engrm, Eheede Mai. vii. t. 37. — Eumph. Amb. v. t. 126. 



Spec. Chab. Stem prickly, terete : leaves alternate, cordate, 

 acuminate, 7 — 9-nerved, veins transverse almost simple: male 

 spikes panicled.: flowers smaU, whitish. 



Malabar. Flowering in the rainy season. 



(10) D. PTTLCHELLA. (Roxh.) 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 801. 



Spec. Chae. Tubers almost round, small : stems herbaceous, 

 twining, terete, glabrous : leaves deeply broad-cordate, acuminate, 

 subulate, 9 — 11 -nerved, glabrous: female spikes axniary, collected 

 together, pendulous. 



Chittagong, flowering at the end of the rains. 



(11) D. CEiBPATA. (Roxb.J 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 802. 



Spec. Chae. Tubers almost round: stems annual, twining, 

 terete, 10 — 15-winged,' wings crisp: leaves alternate, broadly 

 cordate : female spikes pendulous, males panicled : flowers alter- 

 nate, remote. 



Interior of Bengal, flowering in the rainy season. 



GENUS II. HELMIA. 



Itioeola Mexandria; Sex: Systs 



Deriv. Named in honor of C. Helm, Archdeacon, an ardent 

 botanist- 



Gen. Chab. Flowers dioecious, very rarely monoecious. Males. 

 Perianth rotate or urceolatej campanulate, deeply 6-divided, seg- 



