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„sprinkled with pellucid dots; the other with a pale, thin, ovate leaf, very 

 „minutely dotted. The first is undoubledly the best, containing aslbelieve 

 „inore gluten, and exhibiting larger and more conspicuous peUucid dots: 

 «réceptacles of volatile oil ?" 



„1.') Leaves usally distant, somewhat of a dark colour, large, smooth, 

 „firm, oblong, ovate, lanceolate, or elliptic, sonietimes obovate, more or 

 „less tapering to a fine, a blunt, or emarginate point, often oblique; 

 „variousIy sprinkled with pellucid dots: usually minutely dotted over the 

 „whole surface, and sprinkled with larger dots, the large dots occasionally 

 „appear in clusters. The latéral veins frequently run on nearly to the margin 

 „before they anastomoze, and without forming that distant, conspicuous 

 „waved Une, so comnion in the 2nd variety. This latter character, however, is 

 „not constant, as the leaves are sometimes waved, and in a good soil, 

 „and under good cultivation, the two varieties run much into each other." 



Found at the subséquent localities: Golaghat, Bongmakhua, Outing, 

 Nungthope, Cinnamara, Ligripookuri, Mazanga, Chiriedeo, Dibroo, Naga- 

 gooli, Chulkwah, Kahung, Nahaliah, Kato. Tippum, Hookunijury. 



„2.-) Leaves large, pale, thin, waved, ovate, or broadly lanceolate, 

 „more or less tapering to a fine, a blunt or emarginate point, often 

 ^oblique, sometimes rounded at the base, minutely dotted: the latéral 

 „veins usually anastomozing at a distance from the margin, and there 

 „forming a conspicuous. waved Une." 



Found growing at: Duphlating, Numalighur, Ligripookuri, Chulkwah, 

 Tippum. 



Thèse diagnoses do not give me a clear notion of the varieties or 

 types meant by Masters, nor do the localities quoted throw any light upon 

 them, since three places are said to possess both varieties. Perhaps the former 

 type, dark and firm, is something like the Manipur race, whereas the latter 

 form, pale and thin-leaved, reminds us of the fine „Assam Indigenous" type 

 proper. As to the vein characteristic, I do not understand what it refers to.— 



Pierre 3), though indeed not describing Assamese varieties, may be 

 quoted hère because of his recapitulation and drawing of ail the then 

 known varieties, the diagnoses of which run as follows: 



„Var. y. Bohea \T. Bohea L , vars. laxa Ait. and stricta Ait., T. 

 „cochinchinensis LouR ]. Feuilles elliptiques-oblongues, obtuses, aplaties ; 

 «pédoncules le plus souvent uniflores et presque glabres; sépales ciliés 

 „pubescents en dedans ou glabres; pétales au nombre de 5 - 6 ; branches 

 „du style libres seulement dans la partie supérieure; ovaire à 2 — 3 loges; 

 „^vules au nombre de 2-3-4 par loge."'*) 



') J. W. Masters 1863, p. 35. 



') J. W. Masters 1863, p. 36. 



■') L. Pierre 1887, PI. 113-114. 



') Herbarium samples in Paris quolt-d: Chiisan, Fortune Nr. 108 and Montigny (herb. 

 Vaillant, 1855) nr. 152. Japan, Oldham, Sonnerat, Siebold Nr. 487. Java, Zollin- 

 QER nrs. 3015 and 20. Nilgherries, Perrottet nr. 400. — Pictures in Breyn. Cent. III 

 t. 112, ic. 17. t. 3 (1678), LiNN. Amoen. acad. 7, p. 239, t. 4; Lamarck Encyclop. p, 474; 

 NEES V. ESENBECK, t. 427; Duhamel Traité, Tom. 2. t. 2, nr. 6; SiMS, Bot. Mag. t. 998. 



