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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
natim paucifloris, bracteolatis ; sepalo parvo, bracteiformi, 
pilosulo; petalo majore, cuneato-orbiculari, apice subretuso, 
carnoso, glabro ; ovario piloso. — In insulis Malaccanis : v. s. 
in herb. Mus. Brit. ^ et ^ , ins. Nicobar (Soc. Frat.). 
A species near C. debiliflora, cliflPering in its less polished, 
scarcely peltate leaves, with an obtuse summit, on a longer 
petiole, and in the structure of its pilose flowers. The leaves 
are 4^ inches long, 3 inches broad, on a petiole inch long, 
inserted 2 lines within the margin of the basal sinus, which is 
1 line deep. The panicle is 7-8 inches long ; its lower 
branches are 3-6 lines apart and 2 inches long, gradually de- 
creasing upwards ; the secondary branchlets are 2-3 lines long, 
bearing at their summit a globular head of lax pedicellated 
flowers. The flowers are small, not more than 1 line long, on 
a pedicel of equal length ; the calyx is tubular, straight, and 
cleft at its summit for a third of its length into four equal teeth; 
the corolla, cup-shaped and glabrous, is a quarter the length of 
the calyx, with a mai'gin of four short teeth ; the filament is ex- 
serted considerably beyond the mouth of the calyx, and supports 
a 4-lobed peltate anther. In the $ flower the ovary is gibbously 
oblong, with an excentrie erect style, half its length, terminated 
by three divaricated subulate stigmata. 
10. Cyclea deltoidea, nob., in Kew Journ. Bot. hi. 258; — ramulis 
gracilibus, demum glabris ; foliis subpeltatis, deltoideo-rotun- 
datis,imo subrotundatis vel obsolete truncatis, apice obtusis,ra- 
rius acutiusculis et mucronulatis, 7-10-nerviis, nervis tenuibus 
utrinque prominulis, utraque facie glaberrimis, supra' viridi- 
bus, subtus sordide glaucis ; petiolo tenui, striato, glabro, 
limbo dimidio breviore : racemo ? axillari, folio longiore, sub- 
spicato, undique glabro, brevissime et alternatim ramoso; 
floribus minimis, paucis, in ramis aggregatis ; drupis glabris. 
— In Hong-Kong: v. s. in herb. Hook. ? (Champion). 
The authors of the ‘Flora Indica’ (p. 202) allude to the spe- 
cimens of some panicles in fruit, which they found in the Khasya 
Hills and brought home in spirits, and they state that they re- 
semble very closely the panicles of IMajor Champion’s plant : 
accordingly a specimen is attached to the plant from Hong Kong 
above quoted, which I have examined and find it has no relation 
to it, and that it does not belong to the same genus, or even 
to the same tribe ; on the contrary, it must be referred to some 
unknown genus of the tribe Pachyyoneai, as the putamen differs 
from all others at present recorded in being spiniferous.. 
The above speeies differs from all the preceding in the small 
size of its leaves, which are only subpeltate ; and it is singular 
