62 FLOUA INDIOA. [BUleniacece. 



Hab. In Zeylania ! Malaya ! Ava ! Chittagong ! Silhet ! et Assam! — 

 (u. V.) 



DisTRiB. Java! Ins. Philippin.! China australis ! 



Folia obovata, ovali-oblonga vel late lanceolata, obtusa vel acuta, 2-5 poll, longa, 

 1-2 lata, nervosa, nervis superne exaratis subtus prominulis parallelis numerosis, 

 scaberrima et utrinque cum ramis parce adpresse pilosa, integia subcrenata vel ser- 

 rata, serraturis mucronatis. Panicula divaricato-ramosa, adpresse pilosa vel tomeu- 

 tosa, multiflora. Hue inde foliosa. Plores diametro i-^-poll. Sepala reflexa. 



A very variable and widely diffused plant. The bairy-fruited variety is well 

 marked, but does not appear to possess any other character, nor to be distinguished 

 in any way iu distributiou or range. The shape of the leaves is very variable, those 

 on barren shoots and on young plants being larger, more hairy, and more conspi- 

 cuously serrated. According to Planchon (in Herb. Hook.) the Linnxan specimen 

 uf B. sarmeniosa has hairy fruit. As the glabrous-fruited variety is common in 

 China, there can be no reasonable doubt that Loureiro's Actaa is correctly referred 

 here. His Calligonum (1. c. p. 418, Trachytella Galligommi, DC. Syst., Prod. i. 

 70) is more doubtful, being described fructu gemino polgspermo, which agrees with 

 no Indian DiUe)iiacea. Indeed Loureiro, in comparing his plant with Delima sar- 

 mentosa of Burmann, expressly says that the fruit is very different. The Piripi of 

 Rheede (Hort. Mai. vii. t. 54), which is referred by M'iUdenovv to D. sarmeniosa, 

 but which De Candolle rejects under the name of D. Piripn, as too different in ap- 

 pearance to be considered to belong to the present species, appears to us to be Poly- 

 gonum Chinense, L. If Rheede's figure be compared vrith that of Burmann (Fl. Ind. 

 t. 30. f. 3) the resemblance will, we think, strike every one. Rheede's description 

 is, however, very defective. 



3. TETRACERA, L. 



Mores hermaphroditi vel abortu poly garni. Sepala 4-6; petala to- 

 tidem. Stamina indefinita. Ovaria 3-5, ovulis pluribus biserialibus. 

 Folliculi totidem, crustaoei, nitidi, angulo interiori debiscentes. Se- 

 mina 1-5, arillata. — rrutices scandentus, vel rarius arbores. Pamculce 

 lerminales, vel ramuloa axillaresfoliosos terminantes. 



Natives of tropical Asia, Africa, and America. Continental India north of jMa- 

 laya possesses only two species, but in the islands of the Indian Archipelago they 

 appear more numerous, and some of those described by Blume from Java may yet 

 be found in the ]\Ialayan Peninsula. T. Heyneana (Wall. Cat. 6G30 !) is (as has 

 been noted by M. Planchon in Herb. Hook.) a Euphorbiaceous plant. 



1. T. Isevis (Vahl, Symb. iii. 71); foliis glaberrimis superne ni- 

 tidis nervis distantibus, sepalis intus sericeo-pilosis, foUiculis 1-3- 

 spermis.— ^To^^. Cat. 6627 ! DC. Syst. i. 402, Prod. i. 68. T. Mala- 

 barica. Lam. III. t. 485./. 1 ? T. Rlieedei, DC. Syst. i. 403, Frod. i. 

 68 ; W. et A. Prod. i. 6 ; JTigld, le. t. 70 ; Bheed. Mai. v. t. 8. 



Hab. Zeylania I Malabaria ! Concan, Oraham. — (v. s.) 



Fniiea: scandens, ramis rigidis angulatis, cortice nitido cinereo. Folia oblonga vel 

 lanceolata, utrinque angustata vel apice abrupte acuminata, integerrima vel remote et 

 inconspicue paucidentata, 3-5 poll, longa, 1-2 lata, nervis primordialibus utrinque 

 5-6. Paniciihe pauci- vel multiflora;, glabrse, rarius parce strigoso-puberula;. Brac- 

 teolcs ad ramiflcationes parvse, lineares. Sepala ciliata, extus glabra. Semina 1-2, 

 nitida, arillo inciso-laccro, scgmentis late lanceolatis. 



The principal characters by which this species is distinguished from the next are 



