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subflexuosis, glabris ; foliis oblongis, utrinque acutis, apice 

 breviter repente angustatis, glaberrimis, opacis, petiolo gra- 

 cili ; racemo axillaris petiolo sublongiori, bifido, vel subdicho- 

 tome ramoso, floribus secundis, vel subaggregatis ; ealyce 

 cupuliformi, 5-denticulato, petalis 4-5^ linearibus, apicula in- 

 flexa longe propendenti, staminibus 4-5, crassis, demum elon- 

 gatis et exsertis, pilis clavatis antberis fertilibus 2-plo longi- 

 oribus mmii'tis ; ovario sterili, subgloboso, 4-5-sulcato, apice 

 pulviniformi, subumbilicato, stylo brevissimo, fere obsoleto. — 

 India. Orient. — [v. s. in herb. Soc. Linn, et Hook., Wall. Cat. 

 6780.— Ceylon, Gardner, 102.) 



This plant bears much the aspect of Stemonurus polymorphus ; 

 the leaves are of a pale green, of nearly the same hue on both 

 sides ; the specimens in the herbarium of the Linnaean Society 

 are oblong, with parallel sides, or sometimes tapering a little 

 towards the base from the upper part, where they are broadest, 

 and then suddenly contracted into a narrow and obtuse point; 

 they are 3 to 3^ inches long, \^ inch broad, on a slender petiole 

 about 4 lines in length. In the Ceylon specimens the leaves 

 taper more regularly to each extremity, and are somewhat nar- 

 rower. The flowers are generally 5-, rarely 4-merous ; sometimes 

 the hairs of the stamens are short and nearly obsolete, at other 

 times double the length of the anthers ; the cells of these are in 

 some specimens replete with perfect pollen, in others filled with 

 grumous matter : the ovarium is generally depressed or globose, 

 and I have never met with a single instance of their possessing 

 ovuligerous cells. 



18. Stemonurus axillaris. Gomphandra axillaris. Wall. Lasi- 

 anthera tetrandra. Wall. Flor. Ind. Or. vol. ii. ; — ramulis tere- 

 tibus, flexuosis, substriatis, glabris ; foliis oblongis, utrinque 

 acuminatis, apice angustato-attenuatis, glabris, opacis, subtus 

 pallidioribus, margine revoluto ; panicula ramosa, petiolo pauUo 

 longiori, glabra, flonbus crebris, subsecundis, 4-5-meris, ealyce 

 cupuliformi, 5-denticulato, petalis margine inflexis, apice longe 

 propendenti, staminibus fertilibus, longissime ciliolatis, ovario 

 saepe sterili, interdum ovuligero, oblongo, vel subgloboso, 

 4-5-gono, stylo conico, tubuloso, apice 4-5-dentato. — Sylhet. 

 — V, s. in herb. Soc. Unn. Wall. Cat. 3718.) 



As in S. Penangianus, I have observed that in many cases 

 where the ovarium is ovuligerous, the anthers have been charged 

 with perfect pollen, so that such flowers may be said to be truly 

 hermaphrodite : in most instances, however, the ovarium is ste- 

 rile. The leaves are from 3^ to 4i inches long, including a nar- 

 row and almost linear apical point of half an inch in length ; they 

 are 1^ to 1^ inch broad, on a petiole half an incli long: the 



