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XIII. vioLACE^. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 



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7. A. lanceolata, TTaZ^. Ca^.4023(Pentaloba); glabrous, leaves narrow, 

 lanceolate acuminate obscurely serrulate, nerve-axils beneath unbearaea, 

 flowers in short cymes pubescent, filaments longer than the anthers, tip oi 

 connective subulate. Vareca lanceolata, Roxh. FL Ind. i 648, , - 



Penakg, Jack.^ Porter, &c. 

 An erect shrub. Leaves 



? 5-7 by 1-2 in., smooth and shining on both surfaces, snb- 

 U'qmlts { in., subulate from a broad base, or lanceolate, giJ^ 

 brous. Flowers pale yellow, shortly pedicelled. Sepals ovate, obtuse. Pff?^ 7Tsk' 

 long, linear lanceolate, subacute. Filaments glabrous, adnate to the 5-lobea i!^ » 

 anthers ovate, contracted into the acuminate tip of the connective. Ovary B.n^ ^^y^ 

 densely villous. Capsule \ in., pubescent or glabrate, several-seeded. y ^ 



8. A. niaingrayi, H. /. & T. ; glabrous, leaves subsessile elliptic ot 

 elliptic-lanceolate or obovate-oblong shortly acuminate serrulate, uerv^ 

 strong, axils beneath not bearded, flowers in peduncled axillary cymes 

 crowded pubescent, sepals oblong, stamens tomentose. ,y 



Malacca, Gnffith^ Maingay, " i |. 



A tree? Leaves very variable in size and shape, the longest narrow lanceoiaii 



10 by 2 in. ; the broadest 5 by 3 in., shortly oblong tending to become obovate»^^|^*'^ 

 somewhat obi 

 arching and 



ique, base rounded or acuminate, young pilose ; nerves many, s rong, 

 inosculating within the margin. Stipvles \ in., subulate^anccoiai. 



C;^we« with stout glabrous peduncles i-l in. long, dichotomously branched, .-^^^i^^^ 

 i in. diam., sessile or pedicelled. Sepals broadly oblong, ciliolate. FetaU r ^^^ 

 longer, obtuse, bearded down the centre on both surfaces. Filaments ^^^^^^^^ 

 cu[>-shaped 10-lobed disk, broad, stout, tomentose within ; anthers small, ovoid, 

 nective pubescent, with a glabrous short obtuse membranous tip. ; ; 



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oblong- 



9. A. mollis, H. / & T. ; softly tomentose, leaves oboyate- oi 

 lanceolate acuminate obscurely toothed, flowers in dense axillary tome 

 cymes, outer sepals large orbicular, filaments pubescent above. ;^ ^ 



Tenasserim, Griffith, Heifer. ^'2 hairs- 



A shrub, branches and leaves thickly tomentose beneath with short ^P^^^ Lf-cent 

 Xeaves 6-10 by 2-24 in., acute or acuminate, often oblique, membranous, pu^^^j^^^^ 

 above with a tomentose midrib; petiole 4 ^n- Stipules \-l in,, subulate-ian ^^^^j^ 

 pilose. Cymes peduncled or subsessile. Flowers ^ in. diam., subsessile, .j^^^^ 

 ochreous. Sepals very unec^ual, inner oblong. Petals narrow, erect, "?|."», ^ anthers 

 lute tips, hairy upwards. Lilaments inserted on thecupular lO-lMobed disK » ^^j^j, 

 bliorler, ovate, narrowed into the short acute tip of the connective. ^^e^«*ra b"* 

 Copsule I in., densely pubescent.— Very near A, dasycaula, Miquel, of bum > 

 much more densely tomentose. 



10. A. ecbinocarpa, KortMs. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. i. 359; ^^^^ 

 tomentose, leaves obovate or oblong-lanceolate long acuminate ^^^^ 

 coarsely toothed, flowers in densely tomentose axillary cymes, ^"\^^jjc^ 

 oblong, capsules thickly clothed with felted brown-tomentose ora ^ 

 fibres. Miqml Fl. Ned. Ind. i, pt. 2, 116. Medusa anguifera, i>o«'- 

 Coch. 406. 



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DiSTRiB. Sumatra, Cochin-China. ■ A\<k s*** 



! leaves are shorter-pet ioled and usually more ^?~*^gpherica* 

 tlie cymes shorter, the sepals all oblong, filaments glabrous, and the fruits *^™ ,*^ ^iiosc 



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Malacca, Griffith^ 3Taingay. 

 Very similar to A. molVis in foliage, stipules, and structure 

 mens and ovary, but the ler 



balls 1-2 in. diam. of matted branched filaments which arise from the caps 



valves are | in, long. Seeds few, large. 



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