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DICOTYL. seu EXOGEN^E.

CARDIOPTERIS.

feros axillares, furcatos, dichotomos v. paniculatos dispositi; alabastrisniinutis secundis sessilibus ebracteatis; florum ima basi concavaprocessu parvo ramuli articulata.

1. C. Rumphii (H. Bn. in Adansonia. X. 280). Spec. nostro sensu una (cui char.omn. gen.) summopere ludens variansque, non recte in species tot quot inregion. divers. gignitur dilacerata. Nomen prius (C. lobata R. Br.) infausteliaud servare potuimus ob limbum in var. saltem 2 integerrimum. Flores, utvidetur, semper iidem fructusque minime variat. Formas hucusque 4 sat di-versas novimus :

a, integri folia , foliis srepius crassiusculis subcordatis v. hastato-subcorda-tis, nervis basi subpedatis plus minus conspicuis, nunc parce rufescenti-bus, inflorescendis cymoso-ramosis. 5- Io India or. penins. (Hook. etTboms., in hb. Kew !), Java (Zoll., n. 8436, in hb. Mus. Par., Deless.. DC.,Kew.), Tamatta in or. Celeb., Popongas, Balinos, in sylvis humidis haudprocul a littore remotis, in Novae Guinece pago Lobo (ex Bl.). Olus san-guinis Rumph. Herb. Amboin. V. 482. t. 180. — Dioscorea sativa L.Amcen. acad. IV. 133. W. Spec. pl. IV. 2. 705. — C. Moluccana Bl.Rumphia. III. 207. t. 177. fig. 2. — Utta-lala s. Utta-tuer Amboin. Uge-Jabba Ternat. J/otta-ifottoMacass. etBugin. .(exBl.). — Folia ad lOcent.longa, 10 cent. lata; petiolus ad 10 cent. long. Fructus usque ad 3 cent.long., 2 cent. iat., cent. crass. (v. s.).

(3, Blumeana, foliorum smu baseos latissimo, inflorescendis elongatis fur-calis. Blume. Rumphia. loc. cit. 725. In ora Ceram majoris prope Kay-bobo (ex Bl.).

y, lobata, annua, plane glabra, praeter raches spicarum calycesque minutepubescentes, leesa copiam lactis effundens, caule volubili tereti striatosterili inani, foliis herbaceis subcordatis acutis v. acuminatis, costaapice porrecta saepe mucronatis, basi plus minus emarginata v. nonnihilin petiolum producta digitinervia, nervis venoso-anostomosantibus sub-tus prominulis, marginibus limbi varie angulatis v.sub-o-7-lobis, pedun-culis subaxiilaribus varie ramosis, saepe 2-furcatis v. a basi 2-chotomis,ramulis in florescendae arrectis, dein paternissimis, fructiferis plus minusarcuatis. J In India or., near Ava (Wall.in hb. Comp. Mere. Ind.,n. 8033), Bengalia (J. Hook. etThoms., in hb. Kew., Mus. Par., Ludg.-Bat.), aij Rangoon (M. Clelland, in hb. Kew.), in dit. or. Bengaliae (Si-mons, in hb. Hook.), ad Mergui (Griff., n. 828/1, in hb. Kew., Mus.Par.), in Cachar (Hook. et Tlioms., n. 115), circa Goalpara (Wight), inIfegn. Siam (R. Schomb., in hb. Kew., Berol.), in Cochinch. Gallic.(Lefevre, n. 108, in hb. Mus. Par.), in Borneo (Motley, n. 371,inhb.Kew.), in Java (Zoll., n. 446, in hb. Mus. Par., Deless., etc.), in Celebesorient. (Forsten, in hb. Lugd.-Bat.). C. lobata R. Br., in Wall. Cat.,n. 8033. Benn. in Horsf. Pl. Jav. rar. 246. t. 49. C. Moluccana Bl. Rum-phia. IV. 207. t. 177. fig. 2. Sioja sanguinaria Hamilt. ex Bl. Periptery-gium quinquelobum Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 351. Gambas Kawongsundaice (ex Bl.).— Folia ad 5-15 cent. longa, 4-13 cent. lata; petio-lus 5-10cent. long. Inflorescendae ad 15-25 cent. longae. Fructus2-2j cent.longo., 11-2 cent. Iat. (v. s.)._

S, subhamata , foliis (in sicco decoloratis) e basi valde cordata subpedatim7-nervia sagiitato-ovata 5-7-lobis, lobo terminali majore ovato-acuminato,lateralibus brevius angulato-acuminatis, inferioribus utrinque 1 v. 2inaequali-cunealis. In Hort. Calcutt. ol. cult. (Gaudich., a Wallich com-mun., n. 262, in hb. Mus. Par.). C. subhamata Wall., mss., in Hort. Cal-cutt.). — Foliorum limbus ad 15 cent. long., 10 cent. Iat.; lobus termin.ad 10 cent. long.; petiolus ad 5 cent. long. (v. s.).

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