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A shrub. Leaves opposite, serrate, lanceolate, persistent. Panicle terminal. 

 Cali/x-tnhe adnate to the ovary ; limb 5-6-toothed. Petals 5 or 6, thickish, vdl- 

 vate, blue or purplish. Stamens 10 or 12, epigynous, Ovafy f -inferior, 1-celIed; 

 styles 3-5 ; ovules numerous, on 3-5 parietal placentae formed by the innexed 

 margins of the carpels. Hernj f-inferior, blue. Seeds numerous, small, obovoid ; 

 testa with large reticulations. 



1. S. febrifU^a, Lour. Fl. CocMnch. 301; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 12S; 

 Maxim, in Mem. Acad. Petersb. x. No. 16, p. 2. D. cyanitis and D. latifolia, 

 Miq. Fl. hid. Bat. i. 721, 722. Adamia versicolor, Fortune in Journ. Hort. 

 Soc. i. 298 ; Lindl. 8f Faxt. Fl. Gard. i. t. 5. A. cyanea, Wall. Cat. 441 ; Tent. 

 Fl. Nep.t. 36; PI. As. Bar. t. 213 ; Bot. Mn<j. t. 3046 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 16; H. 

 f. ^ T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 76. A. chinensis, Gardn. ^ Champ, in Keio Joum. 



'Bot.i. 311. Cyanitis sylvatica, Beimo. in Blume Bijd. 921 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 



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Tkmperate Himalaya ' from Bhotan to Nipai., alt. 5000-8000 ft, 'abundant. 

 Khasia Mrs., alt. 4000-6000 ft.— Disteib. Java, China, Philippines. 



Stei)is 5-9 ft. high, somewhat virgate. Leaves 3-8 in., tapering into the petiole, 

 pubescent or puberulons pn the nerves, otherwise glabrous, usually narrow, s^^^* 

 times obovate-lanceolate. Petals ^^ in. long. Bern/ finally an intense blne.^Tiie 

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Shrubs with opposite branches and stellate pubescence. Leaves opposite 

 serrate, ovate or lanceokte. deciduous. .Flowers white, corymbose in the In- 



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bvViles numerous, axile.* Ca^5wJe8-5-celled, hemispheric or ovoid .from 



truncate at the summit, at length septic idal. -- 

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appearing at last a^ a short stalk at its base, as a point at its summit.— Distbib 

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1. I>. corjmbosa, Br. in Royle III t. 46; petals obovate imbricate 

 calyx teeth short triangular, calyx-tube with scattered stellate hairs, cor 

 many flowered, WalL Cat. 8652 ; H. f, ^' T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 83, e.t 

 mff mjnonynm in Bot. Reg. \ Brand. For. FL 212; Maxim, in Mein. ^ 

 Petersb. x. No. 16, p. 32. ? D. parviflora, Bunge Enutn. Pi Chin., p- 

 Maxim, in. Mem. Acad. Petersh. x. No. 16, p. 33, with figures. Phikdelpnu» 

 (Leptospermura) corymbosus, Wall, in Herb. • 



Tempkratb Himalaya, from Kashmir to Bhutan, alt. 6000-10,000 ft., frequeo^. 

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Leaves 1-2 in., oblong or elliptic lanceolate; on the under surface the stoiia 

 hairs are often few, sometimes thickly scattered, not matted into tomentum m i^ 

 mature leaves ; under surface sometimes prominently reticulate.* Petals g^^^fP^ t 

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