. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Hiptage] XXIII. lot) of leaves whitish or yellowish-grey .tomentose. Leaves ovate or elliptic 2-1- in. Fl. scenteclj white or lilac, 5th petal with a bright yellow blotch near the base, wings pink, middle one lanceolate, 1^-2 in., the two lateral broad, obtuse, h in. long. Dry and Eng forebt in the Irawaddi valley, from ProniP upwards, Manipur, Shan hills. Fl. March. Cochinchina. 6. H. sericea, Hook. fil. Tenasserim, Malay Penin-
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Hiptage] XXIII. lot) of leaves whitish or yellowish-grey .tomentose. Leaves ovate or elliptic 2-1- in. Fl. scenteclj white or lilac, 5th petal with a bright yellow blotch near the base, wings pink, middle one lanceolate, 1^-2 in., the two lateral broad, obtuse, h in. long. Dry and Eng forebt in the Irawaddi valley, from ProniP upwards, Manipur, Shan hills. Fl. March. Cochinchina. 6. H. sericea, Hook. fil. Tenasserim, Malay Penin- sula. A woody climber, branchlets and inflorescpnee clothed "vvith soft brow n hair^, racemes slender, 3-6 in. long. Fl. \-\ in. diam. "Wings of fruit linear-lanceolate, the middle one 1^-2 in. long, the lateral ones shorter. 2. ASPIDOPTERYS, A. Juss.; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 41D. Fl. small, regular, yellow or white, in axillary or terminal panicles, no glands on pedicel, petals quite entire, not clawed. Stamens 10, equal. Ovary 3-lobed, styles 3, glabrous, stigmas capitate. Fruit of 8 elongated nuts, which separate when mature, each surrounded by an orbicular or oblong mem- branous wing. Species 14, tropical Asia. A. Leaves glabrous beneath, or nearly so. 1. A. Roxburghiana, A. Juss.—Syn. Tnopferla Iudka^B^ PL t. Uyi). A woody cdimber, inflor- escence, riisty-tomentose, branchlets, petioles and midrib beneath often rusty- pubescent. Leaves elliptic- ovate, blade 3-4, petiole I in. long. Petals ^ in. long. Wings of fi-uit ob- long, 1} in. long. Sikkim, As^ani, Khasi and Naga hills. Western Penin- sula. FL August-October. 2. A. Helferlana, Kurz. Ten- a&serim and Andamans, Shan hills. A large climber. Leaves broadly elliptic, glaiiconS; of ten slightly haiiy beneath. FL on slender pedi- cels, umbellate, ixmbels ar- ranged in axillary, slender, rusty - tomentose panicles. Wings of fruit ovate, thinly membranous, 1 in. long. The following two species have a small
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