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lar villous lines from the incisions of the lower lip; a villous 
ring within the tube immediately below the insertion of the 
stamina. Stamina four, all fertile, didynamous, shorter 
than the corolla ; the opposite anthers connected together. 
Style one. Stigma two-lobed. Capsule? inclosed in the 
persistent calyx, ovate, two-celled; cells divided by the 
revolute lobes of the dissepiments. Seeds naked, roundish, 
foveolate. 
Oss. The parietes of the capsule are very thin, and I have not 
yet been able to observe exactly their dehiscence. 
9. LoxoNIA HIRSUTA. 
L. hirsuta, foliis semiovatis latis, pedunculis 2—4-fidis, floribus 
racemosis. 
Native of Sumatra, interior of Bencoolen. 
Stem recurving, somewhat flexuose, hirsute. Leaves opposite, 
sub-bifarious, very short-petioled, the one small and semi- 
cordate, the other semi-ovate, broad, acuminate, slightly 
serrated, rugose, hirsute on both sides; about five inches 
long and two or two and a half broad. Peduncles from the 
axils of the small leaves, looking backwards, dividing into 
from two to four unilateral racemes, shorter than the leaves. 
Calyx five-parted. Corolla bilabiate, five-lobed. Stamina 
four fertile, didynamous. Anthers with transverse lobes. 
Style simple. Stigma obtusely two-lobed. Ovary two-celled, 
polysporous, the lobes of the dissepiments revolute and 
seed-bearing. 
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