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' NiFAx; Wallich. Sikkim Terat; J. D. H. Subtropical zone of East Bengal 

 and Burma. Chittagong; Boxhurgh, J. D, H. Burma; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 

 2663). - South Andaman ; Kurz, ' 'A('" 



' Closely resembles B, Hainla ; sparingly prickly. Pedicels springing from a dense 

 cluster of bracteoles \ in., oblong and very tomentose. Fruit often 1-seeded, when 

 2-seeded it is J by | in., turbinate-ellipsoid. Style on the fruit \ in. or rather more. 

 ^— Wallich's plate belongs to this plant, as he mentions the fruit as turbinate (as 

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4, B. alplna, C. B, Clarke; leaves cordate-ovate acute or slightly 3-5- 

 cuspidate densely stellate-tomentose, bracts to tbe panicle-branches lanceolate. 

 Araliad sp. 27, Herb, Ind. Or. H.f. Sf T. 





Alpine Sikxim, alt. 10,000-11,000 ft; Tonglo and Liichen, J. B, H. I /^^ 



An unarmed tree, 30 ft.; young branches densely villous and tomentose ■with 

 yellow or brown stellate hair. Leaves 4-5 in. and nearly as wide, softly serrate, 

 membranous, thickly tomentose on both surfaces when young, when older the 

 scattered stellate hairs wear oflF, but much remains on both surfaces. Pankle ^very^ 

 young) densely tomentose; buds completely enclosed in thick stellate wool; bracts at 

 the base of the panicle-branches ^ in., very narrow. — Can this be a woolly alpine 

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5. B. hlspida, Seem. Rev. Seder. 18; stem panicle and petioles pricjdy, 

 leaves deeply palmate spinosely serrate, reticulating nerves beneath mucn raised 

 and ultimately nearly glabrous. — Araliad sp. 30, Herb. Ind. Or. -H". /• 9* -'v 

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, Sikkim, alt. 6000-7000 ft. ; J. D. H. Mishmee ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2696). 

 ': YellowisH wlien dried; prickles numerous and often whorled, lanceolate, com- 

 pressed, deflexed. icavcs 1 ft. diam. and more, segments oblong-lanceolate narrower 

 towards, the Fase," coriaceous, lower surface glabrous or sparingly hispidulous; 

 stipules united within the petiole with two free linear points, Pa^iw;^^ very large; 

 bracts to the branches | in., lanceolate, tomentose, persistent ; pedicels very many, 

 rising amid numerous bracteoles |-| in. lanceolate closely tomentose. Young caj^J^' 

 /w^e closely densely stellate-tomentose. Petals glabrous, appear yellow. Style -^it^^ 

 the petals have fallen scarcely f^ in. Fruit not seen. . : -^ -- 



6. B. mitis, C. B. Clarke-, tranches prickly, leaves deeply palmate 

 softly serrate, the reticulating uerres scarcely raised beneath ultimately pubes- 

 cent or hispidulous.— Araliad sp. 29, Herb, Ind. Or, H. f. ^ T. ' 







Sikkim, alt. 4000-8000 ft., not rare; J. D. H., C. B. Clarke, N. Gamble. ; 



An erect small tree, 20 ft.. tHe panicle and petioles usually without F^*^*^^^"". 

 Leaves 1 ft. diam. and more ; segments oblong-lanceolate, narrowed towards the basCf 

 membranous, adult beneath softly hairy and not shining ; stipules large, lanceolate- 



ulate, nearly distinct. Pankle very large, often with dense bundles of brisUes on 

 the rachis and at the top of the petiole ; bracts on the branches f in., lanceoiaw^ 

 caducous; pedicels very many, arising amid numerous lanceolate <^^*^^®^y'^*^f*?^V^ 

 bracteoles f-l in. Young calyx-tiibe more or less stellate-tomentose. ^^^^^'"^^ f^t 

 Style a^itQv the petals have fallen 1 in.; the disc large, subhemispheric, Kipe /^ , 



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 ' -way down or more serrate-denticulate, adult glabrous or the nerves beneaiu 

 ; minutelv hispidulous. 





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