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- Silhet; Birma; Pegu; Eastern and AVestern Peninsulas, and Ceylon. - ^ 



: Leaves very various, in size and shape ; stipules ^-\ in. Flowers 4^1 1"- across, m 

 loose axillarj panicles. Petals not much longer than the sepals, clawed. Anthers m&nj. 

 times longer than the very short filaments. Stj/le greatly exceeding the stamens. -Dn/^f* 

 \ in. long, seated on the greatly enlarged disk, and surrounded hy the^ persistent coria- 

 ceous calyx. — Griffith's 0. lucida is described as having 5 petals, but is apparently the 

 same plant. ' 



Var. cordata; leaves much smaller cordate at the base and rounded at the apex 

 more sharply serrate. 0. cordata, Thw, Enum. 70. — Ceylon. . ■ ' " " ■ 



,2. O. Wallichii, Planch in Hook. Land. Journ. Bot v. 650: leaves 

 oblong-elliptic very finely serrate, petals 5, anthers not longer than the Iila- 

 ments, styles united nearly to apex. O. nitida, Wall Gat. 2804 {not ot 

 Thunb.). O. stipulaceaffi, Colebr.ms.; Wall Cat. 2806; Planck in Jlook- 

 Loud. Journ, Bot, v. 653. 0. squarrusa, Kurz Andam, Rep. App, iv. («o« «/ 

 Zmn.). O. andamanica, A'wr^ Bep. And. ed. ii. 33, and in Journ. As. ^oc. 

 Beng, xli. pt. 2, 295. . l / - 



• Tenassekim, Tavoy, the Andaman Islands, and Pegu. 



■_L€aves 4 by 1 4 in. or larger, acute, very shortly petioled; stipules very nunuie. 

 FlQwers on very long pedicels, in loose axillary panicles. Sepals ovate or lanceoUite, 

 generally reflexed after flowering. Petals somewhat longer than the sepals.- -^-Z 



elongated, ])u( rather shorter than the very slender persistent filaments. Stjjies great/ 

 exceeding the stamens. „ "f 



. Var. parvlflora; flowers much smaller. 0. parviflora, Griff, Not. iv. 464.— i""^* 

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Wigrhtiana 



-. _. „.« — „„„, WaU. Cat. 2808; leaves elliptical to ovate base 

 roiincled subcordate subobtuse coriaceuus serrulate, flowers solitary or lu 

 pairs or rarely 3, petals 5, anthers about as long as the filaments, siji 

 S-cleft at the ajiex. ^ W. dh A. Prodr. 152 ; ThwaUes Unum- 70; '^ '/^.V 

 «. 223 a) ; Planch, in Hook Land. Journ. Bot. v. 653. O. Heyneana )f • * ^■ 

 U; Planch. I.e. 653. O. WalkeriL Planch. I.e. O. parvilolia, Valil% ^V""- 

 Co^. 2807. O. IsioonW, Thivaites Enum. 10. : 



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r "--v^», rriynv, warmer pans 01 OEYLOW. ^ ^. i,,,* nfJcU 



^Leaves much smaller than in 0, souarrosa and Wallichu, l-lj ^y ^t.Jf' Jl\\r 

 narrower, very shortly stalked ; stipules very slender, ^-J in. Floivers axillary, ^^^J 

 solitary, smaller than in the two species named. 6'epals usually reflexed after «owen6; 

 —In O Moonii, Thw., the number of flowers in a cluster is larger— ^Cf i^ 

 fdia, Vahl Symh. i 33 ; DC. Mon. Och. 17, t. xix. f. 2 ; Prodr. i. 736, froni Ara^^^^^ 



±elix, much resembles and may even be identical with a small-leaved form ot tUis spe^ 



i^^rro -mnre or less 



Var. an gust 



Lmn, boc. XX 



pt. 2, 295. 



in Journ. As. SocBeng 



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Foot of the Himalaya, from Kuma6n, ^J^eu^or^A, toSiKKiM, /. D.H,;V^ 

 South CoNCAx, Dalz. & Gihs. ■ ^ ' ' i 



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A smail shrub, 1-3 ft. (V). Leaves often as much as 6 in. by 2 in., ao-rro'^^'^.i ;o. 

 and very Bhorily petioled, acute or obtuse, very sharply serrulate; stipnies 4^. 

 blowers umbellate, 3-6 at the end of a common peduncle, as much as 14 in. ^ 

 pedicels j-1 m.; common pedunele 3 in. long, bracteate at the ,\^^\t,e eV 

 ,^ate, 2-3 times shorter than the petals. Filaments short, ■surmounted by '^^.^ 

 i^ted anthers.' Styles elongate, connate or very slightly divided at the apex- ^j^^ 



finely reticulated.— I am unable to distinguish Kurz's . fruticiUosa horn leg" 

 deBcnptiOn.v. The Concan habitat is taken from the Bombay Flora. ■ ' ' 





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