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108. Pentatropis R. Br. 
135. Pentatropis micropliylla W. & A. ; F. B. I. iv. ,20. Asclefitas 
microphylla F. I. ii. 35. E. D. P 396. 
Skirts of northern clearings, climbing over bushes, Calcutta 
Garden Collectors ! Clarke ! 
A small twiner; properties obscure. 
Distrib.— I ndia ; Indo-China. 
109. Premia R. Br. 
136. Daemia extensa R. Br. ; F. B. I. iv. 20. Asclepias echinaia 
F. I. ii. 44. E. D. D. 9. 
Canning Town only, but there plentiful, on banks of Mdtla river, 
Calcutta Garden Collectors ! Prain ! 
• Vernac. Chhagal Bati. 
A foetid weedy climber ; yields a fair fibre j said to be medicinal. 
DiSTRiB.—India generally ; Afghanistan. 
This is one of the usual constituents of the “ village shrubberies ” charac- 
teristic of Lower Bengal ; in India it accompanies man as a weed. 
110. Sarcolobus Wall. 
Corolla white with a purplish tinge, lobes pubescent within j fruit large, 
globose, greyish-brown, coriaceous, not winged , . giohosuSt 
Corolla yellow with lines of brownish purple dots, nearly glabrous 
within ; fruit small, ellipsoid, yellow, chartaceous, with longitudinal 
wing-like ridges carinatus, 
137. Sarcolobus globosus Wall. F. B. I. iv. 27. 
Everywhere common, especially on river-banks, from the northern 
clearings to the sea. 
Vernac. Baoli-lata ; Baoli-phaL 
A large climber ; juice said by wood-cutters to be unwholesome. 
Distrib. — Coasts of Indo-China and Malaya. 
Heinig in his list states The kernel of the ripe fruit is eaten." As the 
ripe fruit is filled with numerous subdiscoid seeds, there seemed to be here some 
mistake. Among Heinig’s specimens is one of a plant termed “ Baoli-phal/' 
collected at Nalkora, regarding which he has noted “fruit eaten”: unfortun- 
ately “Baoli-phal ” has only leaves in a young condition, and the matter could not 
be satisfactorily settled. Recently, however, some Sundribun fishermen have 
brought fruiting specimens and have explained that they term the fruits “ Baoli- 
phal ” and eat the seeds, as well as the inside of the pericarp. 
138. Sarcolobus carinatiis Wall.; F. B. I. iv. 28. 
y- Skirts of northern clearings and northern forests, common; not 
fmet with in the central or southern reserves. 
