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fortior adscendens et mox in anastomoses arcuatas excur- 

 rens; anastomoses parce prominulee versus apicem arcus 

 extrorsum convexas sistentes. Pedunculi leviter curvati 

 plerumque versus apicem puberuli vix 1 cent, longi. Amenta 

 (masc.) recta vel leviter curvata 6-12 cent, longa subconferti- 

 flora sursum attenuata, rachi cyathisque hirtello-puberulis 

 in sicco nigricantibus. Cyathi apice subantice rima trans- 

 versa parva aperti, intus pilis longis instructi, intra quos 

 anthercs vix emergunt. 



2. Muldera galeata ; foliis lato vel lanceolato-ellipticis modice 

 acuteque acuminatis, basi leviter insequali obtusis vel 

 acutiusculis, septupli- vel summis quintuplinerviis, nervis 

 tribus mediis paullo supra basin liberis ad apicem ductis, 

 subcoriaceis rigidiusculis, pellucido-punctulatis, amento 

 fcemineo longe pedunculato folio breviori glabro remotifloro, 

 cyathi oblique clavati labio exteriore galeato, interiore 

 minore, ovario depresso-globoso, stigmatibus 3-4 parvis. 

 In Peninsula Ind. Or. legit Dr. Wight. 



Hamuli striulati flexuosi juniores compressi. Petioli (su- 

 penores) 2-1 £ cent, longi teretiusculi antice canaliculati nas- 

 centes rcque ac ramuli vix omnino glabri sed quandoque pilis 

 nncroscopicis inspersi. Folia supra nitida nervisque per- 

 tensa, subtus ad lentem impresso-punctata, pellucido-punc- 

 tata, marginibus leviter revoluta, 15-11 cent, longa, 4^-7 lata, 

 nervis snbtus prominentibus, infimo tenuissimo marginali et 

 sequenti utrinque fere e basi exortis, tertio ad 1 cent, distan- 

 m orto cum medio ad apicem ducto, anastomosibus trans- 

 versa prominulis reticulatis. Amenta in sicco nigricantia, 

 peaunculis 2 cent, longis sustenta, remotiflora, juniora 4 cent, 

 longa. 



Ejusdem varietas videtur specimen foliis subovatis obtusa- 

 tls vel brevi-acuminatis 7-pli-vel 9-plinerviis insigne, alioquin 

 au tem plane conforme. 



3 - Muldera Wightiana ; foliis ovatis vel ovato-ellipticis obli- 

 que acuteque acuminatis, basi subsequali rotundatis vel 

 leviter emarginatis septuplinerviis, nervis 3 mediis ad 



