8 FLORA INDICA. [RaTiujiculacea . 



pergamcntacca, integerrima vel hinc inde grosse dentata. FaniculcR decomposita;; 

 multillora!, stricta; ; bractecB foliosa;, tripartita; vel iutegra;, ovatse. Sepala 4, ovalia, 

 mucroiiata, i-i-uncialia, extus dense tomentosa, iutua glabra. Stamina scpalis ■§ 

 brcviora ; filainenta plana, glabra ; antherm elongata;, connectivo longe apiealatfE, 

 Achenia compressa, marginata, substipitata, pilosa. 



Though very near in general appearance to some of the forms of the next species, 

 the anthers are so peculiar that we cannot unite them. Our materials, however, are 

 rather imperfect; but botanists in Birma and Western India will have it in their 

 power to compare the two species in a growing state, and to decide whether the one 

 now described, which is we think easily recognizable by its large, copiously -veined 

 leaves and larger flowers, bo distinct from all the forms of C. Gouriana. We have 

 examined the original specimen of C. hedysarifoliay DC, in the British Museum ; 

 it is not in flower, but appears identical with the Bombay plant. 



10. C. Gotiriana (Roxb. PL Ind. ii. 670) ; glabriuscula, foliis 

 pinnatisectis vel bipinnatisectis (rarius ternatiseotis) segmentis ovatis 

 vel oblong'is acuminatis basi rotundatis vel cordatis membranaceis 

 superne lucidis, antlieris brevibus muticis. — DC. Syst. i. 138, Prod. 

 i. 3 ; Wall. Cat. 4673 \;jr.et A. Trod. i. 2 ! ; Wight, Ic. t. 933, 934, 

 Neilgli. PI. t. 13. C. oana, Wall. Cat. 4672 ! 



Hab. In dumetis Indise tropicae, prsesertim montanae, a Zeylania ! 

 at peninsula Malayana ! ad Bengal et Assam ! Beliar ! Dekhan ! et 

 Conoan ! ; in montibus Khasia, et secus basin Himalayee usque ad 

 flumen Jelam et montes Eajaori ! — (Fl. hyeme.) {p. u.) 



DisTKlB. Per totam Indiam tropicam, usque ad insulas Philippinas ! 



Alte scandens, glabenima, partes novelise plemmque sericeo-pubescentes. Folia 

 forma valde varia, integerrima vel grosse dentata, basi rotundata vel cordata, gla- 

 berrima sparse pilosa vel aubtns ferrugineo-tomentosa. Paniculoe decomposite, 

 multifloree, Iracteis minutis rarius foliaceis ovatis, SEepius elongataj folia superantes. 

 Mores parvi, numerosissimi. Sepala ovalia, 3-3 lineas longa, extus vel margine 

 tomentosa. Fila/inerda plana, glabra. Antherce oblongse. Achenia oblonga, minus 

 compressa qnam in affinibus, fiisco-pilosa. 



Very widely difi^used throughout tropical India, in mountainous districts, climbing 

 to a great distance over trees. A very variable plant, but not easily divisible into 

 varieties ; nor would it serve any good purpose to do so, as the broad and narrow 

 leaved forms occur at one time with entire, at another with dentate leaves, and 

 leaves of every shape are either glabrous or more or less pubescent underneath. 

 The leaves vary also much in amount of division ; and in a series of specimens from 

 the Khasia mountains they are uniformly ternatipaxtite. These specimens, which 

 were all collected at once, were probably elongated shoots of a luxuriant young 

 plant flowering for the first time, as the shape of the leaflets and the inflorescence are 

 not diiferent from those of the ordinary forms. None of the species of continental 

 India are liable to be confounded with G. Gouriana ; the nearest is C. grata, 

 easily distinguishable by its hoary pubescence and larger flowers. The broad-leaved 

 tomentose forms, however, approach very near to a plant which appears to be com- 

 mon in Java and South China (C. Javanica, DC. ?). The ordinary state of this 

 species is larger -flowered than C. Gouriana, and the leaves, which are bipinnate, 

 pinnate, or ternate, are soft aad pubescent, without the shinieg surface which is 

 characteristic of the upper surface of the leaves of that species. Thev are also more 

 cut, sometimes deeply lobed, but it must he confessed that we have entire-leaved 

 specimens before us which are scarcely to be distinguished from C. Gouriana. The 

 botanists of Java or Ceylon (from which latter place two imperfect specimens in 

 Herb. Hook, are perhaps referable to the Javanese species) will, we hope, decide a 

 question for which unfortunately our materials are not suflieienl. 



