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Bracteoles setaceous. Calyx bell-shaped, 5-fid; lobes deltoid-lanceolate, pubescent. 

 Car2>el8 5, l-l^ in., oblong, beaked.— Varies in amount of pubescence, and m shaggi- 

 iiess of capsule. The Himalayan forms have subglabrous leaves and very shaggy 

 carpels. 



4. B. obtusa, Wall Cat 1184; leaves thickly stellate tairy above; 

 pubescent beneath oblong obtuse entire base rounded, cymes spicate,^ 



arpels shaggy oblong obtuse. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc, Beng. 18^^, 



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Shrubby, herbaceous portions ferruginous. Leaves 24-4 by 1 in., quite entire 

 3-nerved, petiole 4 in. Cymes not much exceeding the petiole ; pedicels with 3 nunute 

 setaceous bracteoles beneath the flower. Flower-huds ovoid. Flowers small, j ip:^ 

 Calyx cylindric campanulate. Bipe carpels scarcely 1 inch. 



5. B. griabriuscula, WaU. Gat 1185 j leaves obliquely lanceolate 

 base cordate thinly stellate-hairy serrulate, ripe carpels short stellate-nauy. 

 ?H. spinulosa, Wall. Cat. 1847. 



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Shrubby, diffuse ; branches very slen^r, virgate, purple, glabrescent. -^^^^p. * 

 by 4-1 i in. ; petiole \ in. ; stipules subulate, deciduous, as long as the petiole. \^\^^f ' 

 Bpicate ; peduncles half the length of the leaf. Ripe carpels {-% in., oblong, beakeu, 



stellate-hairy. — Flowers not examined, 



6. B. spicata, Colehr. in Wall Gat 1845, B. 1182; leaves stellate-, 

 hairy above downy beneath oblong lanceolate acuminate, base obliq^eo^ 

 Bubcordate, cymes elongated spike-like, ripe carpels long shaggy. H; ^^^}jf 

 Wall Cat 1844, H, oblonga, Wall Cat 1183 partly. H. grewi^foha, WoU- 

 Gat 1443. H. hirsuta % Uerh. Ham, in WaU Cat 2686. ■ - = :, 



From SiKKiM, Assam, and Ava, to Penang.— Distrib. Malayan Archipelago 

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Shrubby. Leaves 2-6 by 1-2 in., varying in breadth from ovate-oblong to Unc-e • 

 late, unequally serrate; petiole i-f in. ; stipules setaceous, as long as the P^ ' 

 Peduncles shorter than the leaves, 3-flowered ; pedicels shorter than the flower. ^«J 

 nearly \ in., bell-sLaped, curved, distended at the base, downy. -^IP^ ,^^^ i^^Ly 

 in. ; stalks exserled from the persistent calyx, oblong-lanceolate, beaked, very ^^\^^J' 

 —Variable. The following form is sufficiently distinct to be made a separate van^^^^ 



Var. fa/n^ftm, pubescent, leaves thinly hairy with simple hairs ^^°^\f ^^ very 

 and stellate hairy beneath coarsely and irregularly toothed, ripe carpels oblong ; « 



densely shag-y. H. lanigera, TTaH. Ca^. 1846. . „ ^i. n.npJi 



The plant labelled in Wall. Cat. 2687 as H. lonnifoUa and also as S,carthagtnm 

 IS apparently a form of this species with narrow leaves ; but it is too imperleci ^^ 

 accurately determined. 



7. K. plebeja, Kurz in Joum, Adat Soc Beng. 1870, ii. 67 ; ^^^^L 

 scabrous, leaves ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong dentate, ripe caip 

 stellate-tomentose and muricate. 



Arracan, iv»rz. labrous' 



Zeam 3-5 in., mostly petioled, base rounded, slightly hispidulous or ^^J-^ uif. 

 above, Btellate-hisnid and scabrous beneath, densely cano-tomentose vrp?» Jp^,^ 

 Cymes few-flowered. Flowers small, yellowish. Calyx ^-i in., stellate 

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