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bracteole below the middle, thickening when in fruit and lenticellate. 

 Sepals ovate-lanceolate, spreading, nearly glabrous, *4 to *6 in. long. 

 Petals coriaceous, narrowly lanceolate, 2 to 2'5 in. long, glabrous or 

 sparsely adpressed-sericeous. Ovaries oblong, hairy. Stigma laterally 

 grooved. Bijoe carpels numerous, stalked, - 75 to 15 in. long, glabrous or 

 pubescent, the constrictions between the 2 to 5 oval joints pubescent ; 

 stalks -25 in. long. Dunal Anon. Ill ; DC. Prodr. i. 91 ; Wall. Gat. 

 6-120 (partly) ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 669 ;¥.n, Prodr. 9 ; H. f. & T. 

 Fl. Ind. 133 ; Miq. Fl. Ind Bat. I, Pt. 2, 41 ; Beddome Ic. PI. Ind Or. 

 t. 51 ; Bl. Fl. Java? Anon. 53 ; A. DC. Mem. 28 ; W. and A. Prod. 9 ; 

 Thwaites Enum. 9 ; Kurz For. Fl. Ind. Burm. I. 34 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Ind. 

 I, 59. Scheff. Obs. Phyt. Anon. 5. Nat. Tidsch. Ned. Ind. XXXI, 5. 

 JJ. cordifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 602 ? JJ. Dunalii, H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 

 131 (the Concan plant); Dalz. & Gibs. Fl. Bomb. 3 (not of Wallich). 

 JJ. Amherstiana, A. DC. Mem. 28. JJ. biglandulosa, Bl. Bijdr. 16. JJ. 

 Pvoxburghiana, Wall. Cat. 6423 B. JJ. Lesseriiana, Dunal Anon. 107. 

 t. 26 ; DC. Prod. I, 90. Desmos chinensis Lour. Fl. Coch. Ch. 1, 352. 



Of this variable and abundant species, Sir Joseph Hooker distin- 

 guishes four varieties as follows : — 



Var. 1, pubijlora ; leaves 5-7 in., oblong acute, base often cordate, 

 flowers silky. 



Var. 2, laevigata ; leaves 3-4 in., oblong or lanceolate, acute, base 

 rounded, flowers almost glabrous. — JJ. chinensis, DC. Prodr. i. 90. JJ. 

 undulata, Wall. PL As. Rar. iii. and 42. JJ. discolor, Dalz and Gibs, 

 Fl. Bomb. 3. t. 265 ; Wall. Cat. 6428.— Perhaps cultivated only in India, 

 common in the Archipelago and China. 



Var. 3, pubescens ; leaves as in 1, but densely pubescent beneath. 



Var. 4, latifolia ; leaves 3-5 by 2-2| in , broad-oval, acute, flowers 

 silky. JJ. discolor and var. b, bracteata Bl. Fl. Jav. Anon. 53, t. 26 

 and 31A. 



From the base of the eastern Himalaya through the Assam range 

 to Burmah and the Malayan Peninsula ; in tropical forests. Distrib. 

 The Malayan Archipelago, Chinese Mountains. 



4. Unona dumosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 670. A large bushy climber: 

 young branches slender, softly rufous-tomentose. Leaves membranous, 

 broadly ovate to oblong-ovate, obovate to oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, 

 sub-acute or broadly mucronate, the base rounded or sub-cordate, or 

 sub-cuneate ; when young rufous-tomentose on both surfaces ; the upper 

 except the midrib glabrescent when old : main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, 

 sub-ascending, rather straight ; length 2 to 5"25 in., breadth 125 to 

 2*5 in. ; petiole "15 in., to 3 in., rufous-tomentose. Floivers solitary, leaf- 

 opposed or extra-axillary, 2 to 2*5 in. long; pedicels "5 to '75 in. long, 



