S^keerostema.] floha indica. 85 



longo-lanceolatis acuminatis basi acutis remote denticulatis, pedunculis 

 laxis elongatis, toro fructus elougato crasso camoso. — Kadsura gran- 

 diflora, fTall. Tent. Nap. p. 10. t. 14, Cai. 4985 kpartim! {spec, dex- 

 trum) (non B nee C). 



Hab. In Himalaya temperata, alt. 7-10,000 ped. . a Simla! ad 

 Bhotan !— (Fl. Mai. Jun.) {v. v.) 



RamuH graciles, cortice fusco. Folia 3-6 poll, longa, 1-2 poll, lata, petiole l-l^- 

 poU., subcarnosa, supra lucida, subtus pallida. PeduncuU axillares, 1-2-pollicares, 

 basi squamosi, ceeterum nudi. Mores diam. ultrapoUicares, pendcdi, suaveolentes, 

 albi flavidi vel rosei. Petala rotundata vel late ovalia, interiora seBsim minora. 

 Filamenia indefinita, superne libera, eylindriea. Antherm ovales, conDcctivo crasso, 

 loculis discretis connectivo lateraliter insertis lineari-oblongis subexlrorse longitudi- 

 ualiter dehiscentibus. Torus fructus cylindricus, 6-9 poll, longus, incraasatus, car- 

 nosus, rubesceus. Baccce globosai, coccineBe, pisi magn., superne liueola brevi no- 

 tata; testa seminis Crustacea, minute punctulata. 



3. S. elongatum (Bl. Fl. Jav. Schiz. 17. t. 5) ; foliis ovatis acutis 

 vel acuminatis basi cuneatis, pedunculis elongatis filiformibus, toro 

 fructus vix carnoso brevi. — Sphaerostema grandiflorum, Wall. Cat. 4985 

 Kpartim! (spec, sinistrum) C! 



Hab. In Himalaya orientali temperata : Nipal, Wall.! Sikkim ! ; et 

 in mont. Khasia, alt. 5-6000 ped.! — (Fl. per tot. sest.) {v. v.) 



DiSTRiB. Java. 



Uami fusci, rugosi, verruculosi. Hamuli lajves, glaucescentes, basi squamis per- 

 sistentibus stipati. Folia stcpe longe acuminata, subtus pallida vel glauca, 3-4 poll, 

 longa, 1^-2 lata, petiolo 1-1-J-poll., rubescente. Fedunculi axillares, ssepe prope 

 basin ramuli ad axiUas foliorum delapsorum plures, pseudo-fastigiati, petiolos duplo 

 superantes, basi squamulis 1-2 subulatis muniti, cseterum nudi vel interdum medio 

 unibracteolati. Ftores diametro f-poU., flavidi. Sepala parva, insequalia. Petala 

 plerumque sex, ovata, carnosula, margine membranacea, interiora majora. Stamina 

 prioris vel Kadsura Bojeburi/hianie. Torus fructus 2-3-pollicaris. Bacca grani pipe- 

 ris magnitudine, substipitatse, globosse, superne cicatrice lineari longiuscula notatse. 



It is a striding proof of the difficulty of distinguishing the plants of this family in 

 a dried state, that Dr. "Wallich has confounded this species with the preceding, from 

 which it differs in many important particulars. We were fortunate enough to find 

 it abundantly in Khasia, as well as in Sikkim, where it grows at a lower level than 

 S. grandiflorum. We refer our plant without hesitation to the species figured and 

 described by Blume, notwithstanding the absence of the bractlet on the pedicel in 

 all our specimens, because it agrees in all other essential particulars, and one of the 

 pedicels in the plate is represented as without a bractlet. 



§ 2. Filamentis in glohum coalitis ; antJieris circiter 15, aheolis 

 androecii longitudinaliter adnatls, bilocularibus, longitudinaliter 

 dehiscentibus. 



3. S. propinquum (Bl. Fl. Jav. Scliiz. 16) ; foliis ovato-lauceo- 

 latis basi rotundatis vel cuneatis apice longe acuminatis, pedunculis 

 petiolos subeequantibus, toro fructus elongato parum incrassato. — 

 Wall. Cat. 4986 ! 4987 B! (spec, .nnistr.) Kadsura propinqua, Wall. 

 Tent. Nap. p. 11. t. IB. S. pyrifolium, Blume, Fl. Jav. Schiz. p. 16. t. 4? 



Hab. In Himalaya exteriori temperata, alt. 4-6000 ped. : Kumaon, 

 -Si!?-, et Wint.l Nipal, Wall.!— (v. s.) 



