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8. LIMACIA, Lonreiro; M. Brit. Ind. i. 100. 



Woody climbers, leaves coriaceDus, triplinerved or witli 3 basal nerves. PI 

 in paoicles, sepals 6-10, petals 5-8, embracing the stamens, smaller than the 

 sepak of the inner circle, c? • Stamens 3-9, sometimes inore, anthers adnate, 

 bui'sting vertically. ? : Staminodes 6, ovaries 3. Drapes obovoid or reniform, 

 style scar near the base, seed long cylindrical, curved round the intruded 

 endocarp. Species 8-10, Eastern tropical Asia, Solomon Islands, North 

 xtlUS tiralia. 



1. L. cuspidata, Hook. fil. & Thorns.; Trimen Handb. Ceylon i. 42. 

 Evergreen, young shoots pubesceat, leaves 2-3 in. long, longer on vigorous 

 shoots, stamens 8-12. Drupes nearly globose, ]-J- in. long, dull reddish puqole. 



Assam, Silhet, Tenasserim, Ceylon, Gochincliina, China. Fl. E. S. 2. L. triandra, 

 Miers. Lower Burma, Malay Peninsula. Leaves triplinerved, 2-4 in. long, sepals 9, 

 thick, stamens 3. 3. L. velutina, Miers. Mergui, Malay Peninsula. Brandies velvety, 

 leaves tomentose, 2-6 in., basal and secondaiy nerves prominent beneath. 



Padiy^^ojie ovata, Mierb; PL Brit. Ind. i. 105,~Syn P. oclorifera, Miers; Kurz, F. PI. 

 i. 56 ; (Jl^smnpelos Plukenetu, DC. ; Wight Ic. t. 824, 825. Vern. N(/u pyii, Bnrm., Coro- 

 mandel coast (Sriliarikota), but also inland ; common in the swamp forests of the 

 plains of Lower Burma, also on limestone rockN. A large evergreen spreading shrnb 

 with long diooping and climbing branches, branch lets and i)etioles hairy, leaves ovate, 

 coriaceous, glabrous, shining, basal nerves 3-5, t\. white, with a strong honey scent, 

 l}edicellate, generally panicled in the axilh of linear hairy bractb, in slender axillary 

 racemes, sepals 6, the 3 outer smaller, petals 6, small, embracing the filaments. Ovaries 

 8 ; ripe carpels reniform, glabrous, I in. long, bfcyle soar basal. 2. P. dasycarpa, Kurz, 

 P. PI. i. 56. Tenahserim, the drujpes densely tomentose, is closely allied. 



Pycnarrlieiia pleniflora, Miers; PL Brit. Ind i. 106. Assam, Silhet, is a large, erect 

 or scrambling shrub, shoots often tomentose, branchlets ribbed, leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, thinly coriaceous, secondary nerves 6--8 pair, impressed alcove, very promi- 

 nent beneath, joined at a distance from the edge by conspicuous intramarginal veins, 

 fl. in axillary capitate clusters. Sepals 6, the inner larger, petals 6, stamens ^, filaments 

 short. Drupe | in. long, style scar lateral. 



Another climber with exalbuminous seeds is H^mito carpus Tliomsoni, Miers ; PL 

 Brit. Ind. i. 106. Sikkim, Himalaya and Khasi hills. Perfectly glabrous, leaves rigidly 

 coriaceous, elliptic lanceolate, the 3 basal nerves running along the edge nearly to the 

 apex ; secondary nerves conspicuous, almost at right angles to midrib. 



Anfcitaxis calocarpa, Kurz, P. PL i. 57, Ohittagong, Andamans and Nicobars, is a large 

 evergreen woody dioecious climber, leaves oblong-lanceolate, penninsrved, secondary 

 nerves not mxich more conspicuous than the finely reticulate veins, pedicels numerous, 

 paniculate, filiform, J-l in. long. Sepals 8, in decussate pairs, the inner larger, petals 

 2 sm^bll, stamens 8. Drupes 1-8, glabrous, shining, scarlet, f in. long, style scar 

 ventral, endocarp brittle, seed nearly globular, concave ventrally, albumen none, 

 cotyledons fleshy, half round, incurved. 



Order VI. BERBERIDACEiE. Gen. PL i. 40. 



{Lardimbalacem and BerberldacecB, Eagler und Prantl, iii. 2, pp. Gl, 70) 



Glabrous shrubs, sometimes climbiag. Leaves alternate, simple or com- 

 pound. Sepals ani petals free, xisually trimerous. Sfcamens 4-3, opposite to 

 petals, anthers adaate. Carpsls t-^B, ovules few or numerous. Seeds with 

 copious albumen. 



A. Lardizal)ale3e. Flowers unisexual or polygamous, anthers opening by slits, carpels 3. 



Climbers, leaves 3-9 foUolate, stamins frea . . . 1. Holbcellia. 

 Climbers, leaves S foliolate, stamens monadelphous. . Parvatia (p. 28). 

 Erect shrubs, leaves pinnate Dbcaisnea (p. 28). 



B. Berberese. Erect shrubs or herbs, fi. bisexual, anthers opening by valves, carpel 1, 



Shrubs, generally spiny, fl. yellow, ovules few basal . 2. Bkrbeeis. 



