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VAB. j)retacea ; leaves stouter shaggy on the nerves beneath, peduncles firmer, 

 imale penanth of 4 segments (almost exactly like the male).— Bhotan ; Griffith 



>rT Pis^"b' No. 2583.) Limestone rocks near Cherra in Khasia, alt. 4000 ft.: 

 V. B. Clarke. 



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f; 22. B. subperfoliata, PamA WW. ; iTwrz 



u. 109; stemless, pflabrous, leaves ovate crenate-dentate 



, reticulated on hot 



bracts 



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Vv MoTJUttKm, on limestone rocks ; Parish. 



^t Soot tuberous. Leaf solitary, radical, 3^ by 2 in., acute not acuminate, hardlj 

 ^mte, equal at the base, peltate or the auricles only overlapping ; petiole 2-4 in 

 Peduncle 3 in. with about 10 small flowers ; bracts | in., persistent, divided to neai 

 tne base or sharply serrate. Malb: sepals 2, elliptic; petals 2, narrow- oblong 

 stamens about 25, much monadelphous, anthers obovoid, connective not produced, 

 cBMALE : perianth veiy nearly as in the male ; styles 3, combined half-way up, 

 stigmas . lunate. Capsule 3-celled, f by |- in. including the wings, styles persistent, 



^ngs 2 short 1 longer, upper margin of eacl^ horizontal, dehiscing by all three faces, 



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moalmelnensiS) C B. Clarke \ stemless, very pubescent 



™oughout, leaves ovate serrate, bracts incise-serrate or laciniate 



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MoTTUffEiN ; 71 Lobb 



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bperfoliata. The specimens which are in bud differ in 



Lobod, and not prominently reticulate 



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ellipti 



fall ax, A. DC. Frodr. xv. pt, i, 329 ; glabrous or nearly so, leaves 



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!*P"c acuminate angular toothed very unequal at the base, capsule equally J- 

 ^P^ed wings narrow their upper margins shortly horizontal. Diploclinium 



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,^th Dbccan TmnsaiTLA ; Courtaixum and Malabar ; Wight. 



^ The branch figured by Wight is 8 in. long with a peduncle from a lower axil and 

 ft -^C. conjectures the plant may be suffrutescent. Leaves 4 by 2 in. ; petiole 1 in. ; 

 ^ipules oblong, deciduous. Peduncle many times dichotomous, many-flowered, shorter 



^^ the leaf; bracts numerous, minute ; flowers medium-sized, Maxb: sepals 2, 

 ^?^ded ; petals 2, narrow-elliptic ; stamens numerous, shortly monadelphous, anthers 



oovoid, connective not produced. Fkmale: perianth-segments 3, 2 large round. 

 I ^all narrow lateral ; styles 3, nearly separate, divided half-way up into two curved 

 ^ches. Capsule J-f in. long and broad including the wings. Seeds shortly-ellip- 

 ^^^, somewhat obovoid.— Not seen : the above is drawn up from Wight's figure ; the 



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IV. Platycentrum. Capsule 2-celled compressed, tnquetro 

 ^ one broad and two narrow papery wings ; dehiscing by the falling a^ 

 faces between the wings ; placentas 2-fid, 





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26. B. g-lgrantea. Wall. Cat. 3677 ; stem tall unbranched glabrous up- 

 ^*«l8, peduncles from the upper axils glabrous, male sepals 2. Mezierea 

 "epalenais, A, DC. Prodr. xv. pt. i. 406. 



inn?""*^ ' Waliich. Sikkim, alt. 3000-6000 ft. ; Herb. Griffith, J. L. H. ; alt. 



\^^J>^ it., frequent, C. B. Clarke. , . .. r 



9 if'^ '"'* t-l^ic^ woody, not tuberous. Stem 2-3 ft., rarely branched. Leaves 



~^^ by 3 jn^^ caudate-acuminate (sometimes larger and orate), undulate, toothed, 



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