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LY. HAMAMELIDE-D. (0. B. Clarke.) 



l^Gorylopsis. 



About 6 ft. high ; bark lenticelled. Leaves 4 in., round-ovate and acute, or 

 smaller and narro-vrer, often cordate at base "with a petiole ^-l^ in., plicate, glabrouB 

 above, pilose silky or tomentose beneath ; nerves straight, parallel, prominent. 

 Petals obovate or elliptic, unguiculate, yellow- white. — C. muUiflora, Hance, from the 

 tea districts of Fokien, hardly differs except that the nerves of the leaves are much 

 fewer and wider apart, and that the petals have a very long claw and round limb. 



5. XiOaOFETAXiUIlE, Br. 



A much branching woody shrub. Leaves alternate, oblong, entire, persis- 

 tent ; stipules membranous, soon, deciduous, Flower-lnQoAs peduncled, quasi- 

 terminal, ebracteate, of 6-8 sessile^o?(;ers. Calyx-ivihB adnate to the ovary, limb 

 of 4 valvate lobes. Petals 4, perigynous, linear, circinate in aestivation. Stamm 

 4, perigynous, filaments very short, connective produced as a horn. Hypogy- 

 nous scales 4, very small. Ovary half-inferior, 2- celled; styles 2, distinct, soon 

 divergent ; ovides in each cell 1, pendulous. Capsule woody, ovoid, endocarp 

 horny, separating from the exocarp. Seeds narrowly ellipsoid, testa blacK 

 shining. 



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Xi. chinense, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 459. Hamamelis chinen- 

 sis, Br. in Abel China, 375, with a figure ; mggesting the new genus Loropetalum. 

 DC, Prodr, iv. 269 ; If.f. 4* T, in Joum. Linn. Soc. ii. 85. 



Khasia Mts. alt. 4000-5000 ft. ; J. D. H. ^ T. Thomson.—BiSTmB. S( 



Twigs and inflorescence with much stellate pubescence. Leaves l-2^in.lo 



hairy on both surfaces (small in the Chinese specimens), acute, from 



base ; petiole |-J in. long. Petals i-| in. long, 4 or 5 times the sepals, 



Anthers short, the ed^es of thft valvp.s liftnt. in tn mt^(\t thft connective, i 



drop off altogether. 



6. MAINGAVA, Oliver. 



eaves 



alternate, undivided, petioled, persistent ; stipules s^i^all, deci- 



Atree. L 



>us. Heads peduncled, quasi-terminaX 

 e adherent to the ovary ; the limb dosed, splitting 



circumscissile deciduous in 



VsYde a little 

 _^ ^ ^, Petals 5, V^ri- 



gj-nous, linear, circinate in aestivation. Stamens 5, perigynous, fihiments ver^ 

 short, connective produced as a horn. Scales about 10, very small. Ovary n 

 inferior, 2-celled ; stjdes 2 distinct, short ; ovule 1 in each cell, P^°^^^ 

 Capsule woody, ovoid, endocarp homy, separating from the exocarp. 

 unknown. 



1. 



- xnalayana, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc, xxviii. 617, t. 44. 



Penang; Maingay, No. 1871. . peJ* 



A tall tree with rather small stem (ex Maingay), glabrous, the io^^^^f '^^^^le 

 uncles and calyx with stellate hairs. Leaves 3-5 in. long, oblong-lanceolate, y^ , 

 hi m. long glabrous. Petals IJ^ in. long, 4-6 times the sepals, Dehiscing ^i'^^^ 

 ^ m. long and ^ in. hvoad.—Maingaya differs from Loropetalum in the 5 not 4^ ^ 

 in the habit, but particularly in the calyx-limb circumscissile falling off m a i' 

 fore the flower expands. 



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