856 MR. W. B. HEMSLEY ON THE BOTANICAL 
This species belongs to a small group characterized by the leaves 
being 3- to 5-nerved longitudinally, all of them natives of the 
Malayan region. Captain Maclear collected the same plant, but 
without flowers. 
BORAGINEE. 
CORDIA SUBCORDATA, Lam.—A sea-side and insular tree from 
Eastern Africa and Malaya to North Australia and throughout 
Polynesia. 
EunrriA BUXIFOLIA, Roxb.; syn. E. heterophylla, Spreng.— 
Decean peninsula and Malaya to the Philippines and Formosa. 
All the leaves of the Christmas-Island specimens are smooth ; 
in others some of the leaves are smooth and some scabrid on the 
same shoots. 
ToURNEFORTIA ARGENTEA, Linn. f.—A sea-coast plant of tropical 
Asia, Polynesia, North Australia, and the Mauritius. 
SOLANACEER. 
SOLANUM BIFLORUM, Lour.; syn. S. decemdentatum, Rozb., 
S. Zollingeri, Dun., &c.—Malay peninsula and archipelago. 
Prrsaris MINIMA, Linn.— Generally dispersed in tropical 
countries. 
DATURA ALBA, Nees. —Widely spread in tropical countries, 
though often only as a colonist. 
ACANTHACEZE, 
„DICLIPTERA Macrzani, Hemsl., n. &p.— Herba annua, erecta, 
12-2-pedalis, caule tereti viridi minutissime puberulo ramoso 
ad nodos inerassato, ramulis gracilibus. Folia longe petiolata, 
membranacea, lanceolata, ovato-lanceolata vel ovato-rhomboidea, 
maxima cum petiolo 6 poll. longa, utrinque valde attenuata, 
acutissima, glabrescentia, subtus pallidiora ; petiolus gracillimus. 
Cyme axillares, pauciflore, brevissime pedunculata; bracte® 
exteriores aculeiformes, interiores (florales) obovate vel obovato- 
rotundate, longe aculeato-cuspidate, per paria approximate, bi- 
lore ; bracteole angustissime calycem superantes. Flores ses- 
siles; calyx 5-partitus, segmentis angustissimis puberulis ; 
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