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V .•?-^''^® 40-50 ft. Leaves 4 by 2 in., obtusely acuminate; petiole | in. Bacemea 

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7. H- propinquum, C, B, Clarke) leaves petioled oblong undulate- 

 ctenate pubescent ^u the midrib beneath, racemes often simple, flowers clus- 

 tered pedicelled, calyx-tube oblong top-shaped segments nearly as long aa the 

 Petals. H. longifolium, in part Benth, in Journ. Linn, Soc, iv. 35. Black- 

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Leaves 4-8 by lJ-3 in., obtuse, base usually narrowed sometimes unequally 

 funded ; petiole scarcely } in., villous. Baeemes 6 in., towards the ends of the 

 Ranches, villous-tomentose, simple or branched once ; pedicels about ^ in. Flowers 

 ^"?,^il» 6-fid. Stajnetis 2 before each petal, both bearing anthers. 



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8. R. Criffithlanum, Kurz in Journ. As. Sac. 1877, pt. ii. d^; For. 

 ^^* i. 531, character efnended and all syn. excl. ; leaves short-petioled elliptic- 

 ^^unded subcordate at the base pubescent on the nerves above aia-eo-villous be- 

 ^eath crenate, flowers clustered very short^pedicelled 8-10-fid, calyx-tube very 

 ^i^ort. n. foetidum, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Sac. iv. 37 partly, not of others. 

 ^^ackwellia dasyantha, Turcz. in BuU. Soc. Imp. Mosc. 1863, 610, Blackwellia 

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 I^/f ®8pecially near the margin ; long golden spreading hairs on the midrib beneath, 

 •ana bundles of similar hairs in the axils of the nerves ; petiole scarcely ^ in., densely 

 yinous. Racemes 6 in., tomentose; pedicels very short, less than i in. Flowers ^mM. 

 .^t larger and much more hairy than those of H.fcetidum. Calyx-segments shorter 

 .^oan the petals. Styles 5.— Griffith states in Notul. that his plant has two stamens 

 ^efote each petal, as his specimens clearly show: it is by oversight that Mr, Kurz 

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