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armed with many long, nearly straight, sharp spines. Seeds oblong, 
•5 in. or more long. Wall Cat. 1144 ; Mast, in Hook. fil. Bl. Br. Ind. 
i. 377 ; Kurz For. Fl. Barm. I 151 ; Pierre FL Forest. Coeh-Chine, t. 
206, figs. 1 to 8. B. grandifolia, DC. Prodr. i. 486. B. nepalensis f 
Tarcz. in Ball. Mosc, 1858, 207. 
Andaman Islands. Distrib. Brit. India, Chiua, Coch in-China. 
7. B. Andamanensis, Knrz in Jonrn. As. Soc. Bengal, 1871, ii. 47. 
A woody climber: youug branches scaberulous. Leaves sab-orbicular, 
crenate and paltnately 3 to 5-lobod, the lobes acuminate; or ovate- 
rotund, acuminate and irregularly serrate-crenate and not lobed ; the 
base always deeply cordate, 5 to 7-norved ; lateral nerves about 5 pairs, 
opposite, prominent beneath as are the midrib and straight transverse 
veins ; both surfaces sparsely pubescent at first, bat afterwards glabrous. 
Cymes umbellate, 2 or 3 times branched, spreading, in aay- flowered, 
solitary, or 2 or 3 in a fascicle, axillary : the common peduncle stout, 
•6 to "75 in. long; secondary peduncles about the same length, tertiary 
half as long : flower-pedicels *15 in., all slender and slightly pubescent. 
Sepals ovate acuminate or deltoid, puberulous externally. Petals with 
2 obscure lateral lobes, and a long lanceolate indexed middle lobe. 
Stamiuodes truncate. Capsule globose, less than 1 in. in diam , glaucous 
when young, armed with a few unequal, rather short, smooth, stiff spines. 
Knrz in Flora, 1871, p. 277 ; For. Fl. Br. Burm. i. 152 ; Mast, in Hook, 
fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 377; Pierre Fl. Forest. Coch-Chine, t. 207, figs. 1 to 9.. 
Andaman Islands. Distrib. Barmah, Siam, Cochiu-China. 
11. Coitmersoxia, Forsk. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves simple, oblique. Inflorescence cymose, 
terminal or axillary or leaf opposed. Calyx 5-cleft, Fetals 5, concave 
at the base, prolonged into a long strap-shaped appendage at the apex. 
Fertile stamens 5, opposite the petals ; anthers subglobose, 2-celled, 
cells diverging ; staminodes 5, opposite to the sepals, lanceolate. Carpels 
5, opposite to tho sepals, connate ; styles connate ; ovules 2-6. Capsule 
loculicidally 5-valved, covered with bristly hairs. Seeds ascending, 
albuminous, strophiolate ; cotyledons flat, radicle next the hilam. 
Distrib. A genus of about 8 species, some of which are natives of the 
Malay peninsula and Archipelago, others of Australia. 
C, PLATYPhylla, Andr. Bat. Rep. t. 603 (note). A low tree; young 
branches softly rusty- tomentose. Leaves membranous, inequilateral, 
ovate-acuminate, irregularly dentate-serrate ; the base more or less 
cordate, ono side sub-auriculato, upper surface sparsely and minutely 
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