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at their confluence with the petiole, are connected by a web- 
shaped membrane. The fructiferous raceme is 2^ inches long; 
the pedicels rigid, much divaricated, | inch long; the drupes 
8 lines long, 6 lines in diam. when dry ; the putamen, 6i lines 
long, has a scrobiculated surface covered with a white pruinose 
down. Colebrook (/. c.) gives a tolerably correct analysis of the 
fruit and seed. 
Var. nitidiuscula ] — foliis oblongo-ovatis, profunde et late cor- 
datis, e medio sensim angustioribus, apice subito acuminatis, 
utrinque glaberrimis, subtus prsesertim nitentibus, hinc nervis 
5, ad concursura membranula conspicua connexis; petiolo 
limbo fere aequilongo. — Khasia, in herb. Hook. {Hook. ^ Th.) 
sine flore. 
This is probably a distinct species ; but I have placed it here 
till better evidence is obtained : it differs from all others in the 
peculiar texture of the leaves and the remarkably shining appear- 
ance of their under surface ; its branchlets are 1 line in diam., 
with internodes of 3^ inches, the leaves are 4^-4^ inches 
from the bottom of the rounded basal sinus to the apex, or 
4^-5j inches from the bottom of the basal lobes, and 3^-31 
inehes broad, on a petiole 4 inches long. 
7. Tinospora uliginosa, nob. ; — ramulis teretibus, glabris, lenti- 
cellis parvis 4-lobulatis signatis ; foliis remotis, oblongis, cor- 
datis, marginibus subpandurato-sinuatis, apice acuminatis, 
subcoriaceis, glaberrimis, 5-nerviis, subtus pallidis, nervis 
venisque valde reticulatis pi’ominentibus ; petiolo tenui, 
imo incrassato et tortuoso, limbo subsequilongo vel dimidio 
breviore; racemis axillaribus, glaberrimis, folio longioribus ; 
rachi tenui, simpliciter pedicellata, pedicellis 1-floris, floribus 
viridibus, pro mole majoribus. — In Java et Borneo, v. s. in 
herb. Hook.-, $ Java (Zollinger, 568) ; ? Barmassing, Borneo 
(Motley, 716). 
The authors of the ‘ Flora Indica,^ though evidently with some 
doubt, have considered this plant as identical with T. crispa : it 
agrees with it far less in general habit than with many others ; 
but it differs in its leaves, which are smaller, more oblong, less 
cordate, more coriaceous and rigid in texture, and they have a 
more elongated raceme. The leaves are 2f-3f inches long, 
1^-2 inches broad; the petiole 1-2 inches long. Thee? raceme 
is 4-8 inches long, its flowers larger, its inner sepals being 2 lines 
long, which is twice the size of those in the typical species. In 
the Borneo specimen, which I have considered identical, the 
leaves are smaller, the petiole and raceme shorter : it is described 
as a climbing plant, growing in marshy places ; the ovaries are 
supported by a long cylindrical gynsecium. 
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