AsPiDOPTKETs.] MALFI&RIACEu^j. 125 



also in China and Java. It flowers during the hot weather. The juice of 

 the leaves is used medicinally. 



2. ASPIDOPTERYS, Juss. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i, 419. 



Shrubs, usually climbing. Leaves opposite, eglandular, entire 

 exstipulate. Flowers in simple or compound axillary and terminal 

 panicles ; peduncles bracteate, jointed at the top ; pedicels often , 

 minutely 2-bracteolate. Flowers small, yellow or white. Calyx 

 short, 5-partite, without glands. Petals 5, not clawed, spreading or 

 reflexed. entire. Stamens 10, all perfect. Ovary 3-lobed, lobes 

 flattened at the back, sides winged ; styles 3. Bruit of 1-3 samaras, 

 nucleus sometimes crested or winged at the back. Seeds oblong ; 

 snbterete. — Species about 14, inhabiting Trop. Asia. 



Leaves cordate. 



Leaves ovate, acute or acuminate . , , 1. A, Wallichii. 



Leaves orbicular, with a broad acumen . , 2. A. cordata. 



Leaves not cordate, shortly accuminate . . 3. A. nutans, 



1. A. Wallichii, Hook. f. in F. B. I, i, 421. A, nutans, A. Juss. ; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 45. Hiraea nutans, Wall. ; Boyle III. 134. 



A tall climber with slender shoots. Inflorescence and lower surface of 

 leaves densely clothed with appressed silky white 'tomentum. Leaves 4-7 

 in. lon^, ovate, acute or acuminate, base subcordate. Flowers ^ in. in 

 diam. in long lax white pendulous panicles. Ovary densely hispid with 

 long white deciduous hairs. Samaras orb icular- oblong ; nucleus without 

 crest or wing. 



Open parts of the Dehra Dun and Saharanpur forests. Disteib. : Garhwal 

 and Kumaon Himalaya, up to 4,500 ft. Very handsome when in flower 

 during the rainy season. 



2. A. cordata, A. Juss. in Ann. 8c. Nat. Ser. II, xiii, 267 ; D, Sc G 

 Bomb. Fl. 33; F. B. I. i, 421. 



A slender climber. Shoots, inflorescence and leaves beneath clothed with 

 white appressed tomentum. Leaves 6-8 in. in diam., orbicular cordate, 

 terminated by a broad acuminate tip, opaque and sometimes pubescent 

 above; petiole 1-1^ in. Flowers 5 in. across, in lax, pendulous panicles. 

 Ovary villous. Samaras orbicular or nearly so ; nucleus not winged 

 or keeled. 



Gonda district (Oudh). Disteib.: S. India. 



3. A. nutans, Hooh. f. in F. B. I. i, 421 {not of A. Juss.), Hiraaa nutans, 

 Boxh. Fl. Ind. ii, 447 {not of Wallich ) . 



Very similar to A cordata, but usually less tomentose ; the leaves are 

 not cordate at the base and are often much larger and thinner and the 



