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6, gynsecium ambientia, summo glanduloso-quadriloba. Ovaria 
3, gynaecio brevi imposita, libera, erecta, gibba, glabra, 1-locu- 
laria, ovulo unico ad angulum internum medio appenso ; stylus 
brevis, teres ; stigma dilatato-recurvum, sulcatum. Drup<B 3, 
ovatae, subcarnosae, stigmate persistente subexcentrico apicu- 
latae : putamen osseum, suborbiculare, compressum, ventre 
subplanum, ad dorsum convexum, spinis obtusis hamatis in 
seriebus longitudinalibus exasperatum, serie centrali promi- 
neutiore, et bine in dentem longum apiculatum; condylus 
medio faciei ventralis, ovatus, extus concavus, intra loculum 
convexus; semen loculo conform e, summo condyli affixum. 
Caetera ignota. 
Frutices scandentes Indice orientalise folia oblonga out ovata, 
apice repente attenuata, cordata, vel angulato-hastata, 5-9- 
nervia, integra aut sinuato-dentata ; panicula axillaris, petiolo 
sublongior, 
1. Parabcena sagittata, nob., Mag. Nat. ‘Hist. ser. 2. vii. 39; 
Hook. & Th. FI. Ind. i. 131 ; — Cissampelos sagittata. Wall .-, — 
Cissampelos oleracea. Wall.-, — ramulis spiraliter striatis, ci- 
nereo-pubescentibus v. glabriusculis ; foliis oblongis, sensim 
angustioribus, apice longiuscule lineari-acuminatis, imo pro- 
funde bastatis, lobis basalibus acutis vel obtusioribus, mem- 
branaceis, margine subintegris vel sinuato-dentatis, sinibus 
eroso-denticulatis, 7-9-nerviis, venis transversis reticulatis, 
supra breviter pilosulis, subtus fulvo-glaucis et subpuberubs, 
petiolo reflexo limbo breviore ; paniculis supra-axillaribus, 
laxe divaricatis. — In India orientali, v. s. in herb. Soc. Linn . ; 
Ava (Wall. Cat. 4983, sub Ciss. sagittatus) ; Patagong 
(^Vall. Cat. 4984 a) ; Gongachoora {id. 4984 b, cJ et ? sub C. 
oleraceus ) ; in herb. Hook., Assam (Griffiths, 355, ^-, 74, $ ) ; 
Khasia (Hook. & Th.). 
The authors of the ‘ Flora Indica ’ attribute the differences 
in the form of the leaves and the erosure of the margins to the 
effect of local growth ; following their example, I have amal- 
gamated into a single species the four varieties formerly indi- 
cated. In C. sagittata. Wall., the leaves are narrower, sinuately 
dentate, with erosely denticulated margins ; in C. oleracea they 
are broader, the teeth more distant ; in some of the Assam and 
Khasia specimens the leaves are nearly entire. The leaves are 
5-7 inches long, 3-4| inches broad, on a petiole 3 lines long ; 
the inflorescence is an elongated, lax, dichotomous panicle, co- 
vered with short erect hairs. 
II. Aspidocarya. 
This genus, established by the authors of the ‘ Flora Indica,’ 
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