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latiores, interiores longiores, rotundo-obovatee usque spathulate, ad 1 poll. longæ, in 
margine scariosv et interdum undulate. Receptaculum crassum, } poll. dimetiens. 
Pedicelli nulli vel brevissimi, crassi, angulati, rarius ad 2 lin. longi, apice bracteolam 
sepissime ad lineam elevatam, ovarii basin cingentem vel unilateraliter subtendentem, 
redactam gerentes. Calycis limbus ad 1 lin. altus, 5-dentatus. Corolla tubus 2-3 
lin. longus; segmenta filiformia, ad 8-9 lin. porrecta, abhine refracta, parte refractá 
3 lin. longá anguste lineari. Stamina 5; filamenta segmentis adnata, ad 4 lin. 
libera; antherze subulate, 2 lin. longæ, plus minusve torte. Ovarium angulatum, 
13 lin. longum, mox basi dilatatum et superne constrictum. Bacca (immatura) 
ampullacea, plus minusve angulata, 3-1 lin. longa. 
At 6500 feet (Haviland, 1247). 
A very fine and remarkable species, the affinity of which is not quite evident at first 
sight. The inflorescence is not unlike that of the Lepeostegeres group, and it comes 
particularly near to that of L. Beccari¿, King. But the bracts are much less numerous, 
and the heads are short and broad, containing about 50 flowers each. They spring from 
the uppermost axils of young branches, thus appearing almost terminal. The ovaries 
are, as in L. Beccarii, closely packed together and more or less angular from the mutual 
pressure, and there are no pairs of bracteoles at the base of the pedicels, which are usually 
reduced to a minimum and grow only partly longer after fertilization has taken place. 
The corolla is split for 2 of the entire length, and there is a sudden bend, about + below 
the apices of the segments, by which the upper part is perfectly deflexed, so that it 
appears almost as an appendix to the corolla-segments. ‘The filaments are not free from 
the base of the segments as in typical Lepeostegeres, but only from a little below the 
bend just mentioned. This is also the case in L. sabaensis, where, however, the corolla- 
tube is much longer. The disappearance of the bracteoles may be explained as suppression 
caused by the close packing of the numerous flowers, whilst the coalescence of the 
filaments and the corolla for the greatest part of their length might be considered as 
having remained unaltered in spite of the far advanced partition of the corolla. Thus the 
species may be characterized as a Lepeostegeres with very numerous and closely packed 
flowers, with consequently-suppressed bracteoles, and with a very deeply-slit corolla. 
BALANOPHORACEA. 
BALANOPHORA ELONGATA, Blume, Enum. Pl. Jav. i. 87. 
At 11,000 feet (Haviland, 1166). 
Distribution: Java; Borneo. 
BALANOPHORA Lowir, Hooker fil. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxii. 426, t. 75 c. 
In shady woods (Low). 
EUPHORBIACEA. 
GLOCHIDION TENUISTYLUM, Stapf, n. sp. 9. Frutex humilis. Ramuli tenues vel validi- 
ores, interdum leviter anfracti, dense fulvo- vel rufo-hirtelli. Folia petiolo hirtello 
1-13 lin. longo suffulta, oblonga vel ovato-oblonga, 3¿—4 poll. longa, 1413 poll. lata, 
basi rotundata, seepe paulo inzequalia, breviter acuteque acuminata, firme membra- 
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