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. Dux, C. B. Clarhe\ stem lengthened, inflorescence axillary not 

 difinse, leaves ovate with scattered hairs above denticulate somewhat ciliate. 



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MouLMEiN ; Moolee alt. 6000 ft. ; Parish. 

 , Stem exceeding a foot, succulent^ tubercular. Leaves 8 in,, acuminate, much 

 auiicled on one side at the base, somewhat angular, pubescent on the nen-es 

 beneath; petiole 4 in., pubescent upwards; stipules | in., ovate -lanceolate, glabrous, 

 persistent. Flowers (all male in the solitary example) large, glabrous, in short few- 

 flowered cjmQs with bracts resembling the stipules. Sepals 2, round ; petals 2, nar- 

 rower. Stamens very many, shortly monadelphous ; anthers narrow-oblong ; connec- 

 tive hardly produced. — The section is doubtful, the female flowers being unknown : 

 it may be a Platycentrum: Parish remarks that it looks like B. Bex; but the thick 

 erect tall stem differs. 



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Sect. II. Alaeclda. Ff'uit triquetrous, faces with a medial line ; carpels 

 dehiscing dorsally, angles with short subequal wings below the middle; placentas 

 divided. — Sniall small-flowered plants ; filaments monadelphous ; styles connate. 



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. aleecida, C, B, Qa^-ke; stem branched, cymes elongate subpro- 

 liferbus laxly pubescent, fruit inflated glandular-pubescent, 



Moijxmein; Parish. 

 :^ Eootstock small, fibrous. St^m 3 in., nearly glabrous. Leaves 1J-4| in. 

 diam., cordate, round, minutely denticulate, puberulous-punctate above, nearly 

 glabrous beneath; petiole 1-2^ in.; stipules ovate, acute, minute. Cyw^ 3-6 in., 

 "Weak, somewhat panided; bracts small, ovate, persistent, with lax hairs. Male: 

 sepals 2, round ; petals 2, narrow-oblong ; stamens not very many ; anthers very 

 short, obovoid ; connective not produced. Female : styles united a long way, stigmas 

 lunate; ovary with glandular hairs. Capsule scarcely \ in. broad including the 

 ^ngs, ripe green, with 6 lines equally diverging from the base of the styles. 

 Seeds short, ellipsoid. /" 



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7. B. trlcuBpidata, C. B. Clarke; stem short or 0, leaves ovate crenate 

 puberulous on the nerves beneath, scape pubescent^ capsule stellately tri- 

 c^pidate glabrous. 



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Sooisiock small, fibrous. Stem sometimes 1-2 in., pubescent.^ J^am rbtind or 

 pvate, somewhat cordate, crenate or nearly entire, with scattered minute hairs above; 



g^^^^ 1-1 1°-. pubescent; stipules minute. Cymes 2-3 in., minutely pubfecent; 

 acts ovate, minute. Male : sepals 2, obovate ; petals 2, narrowly obovate ; stamens 

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branches. 'Capstde less than \ in. broad including the wings, with six lines equally 

 diverging from the base of the styles, wings acute. Seeds very small, shortly 

 ellipsoid. 



■ — ^«» uvate, minute, xuale ; sepais ^, ulhjvcilo , j^taio i, uo-iiuwij vk/v»c*» 



^^.l??^°y ; anthers very short, ovoid ; connective not produced. Female : 

 f ^gments, much as in the maJe : styles combined below, each with 1 



^,8. B. triradlata, C. B. Clarke ; stem short or 0, leaves ovate serrate or 

 ddubly crenate glabrous and white beneath, scape glabrous, capsule stellately 



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Sootstock a small cluster of tnbers. Stem 0-J in., glabrous. Leaves. J-1 J in., 

 ^jnewhat cordate, incise-crenate, minutely pilose above ; petiole J-J in., glabrous; 

 J*^pules small, lanceolate. Cymes 2-3 in., glabrous ; bracts small, lanceolate, gla- 

 Jj^iis. percistent ; flowers pink. Flowers fruit and seeds closely resembling those of 



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