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This is nearest P. acuminatum, Colebr.,* of which I possess Khasia 

 specimens from both Griffith and Dr. Hooker ; it is, however, perfectly 

 distinct, by the much thinner texture of its leaves, their smaller size, 

 delicate prominent reticulation, conspicuous abrupt acumen, and espe- 

 cially the dense brown glands with which they are dotted beneath ; by 

 the solitary racemes and the larger and more conspicuous lobes of the 

 calyx. P. Ceylauicum, Gsertn., to which Thwaites, with a query 

 (Enum. PI. Zeyl. p. 102), quotes Colebrooke's name as a synonym, is 

 certainly specifically distinct from the Indian plant, by its pubescent 

 petioles and short dense racemes, with the rachis, calyx, and ovary 

 thickly clothed with short fulvous hairs ; P. Wiiihtianum, Bl., is 

 nearest this. Of P. latifoUum, Miq., I have seen no specimens, but I 

 have what I take to be P. parviflorum, T. and B., sent from Java by 

 Teijsmann himself, under the name of P. Bliimei, which, in the ' Cata- 

 logus Horti Bogoriensis,' he keeps separate from both P. latifollum and 

 P. parviflorum. I have, however, remarked many similar multiplica- 

 tions of names in that book. 



4. Hedyotis (Oldenlandia) Boerhaavio'ldes, n. sp. ; caulibus difFusis 

 crispulo-pilosis, foliis breve petiolatis carnosulis lj-2-pollicaribus e 

 basi cuneata deltoideo-ovatis acutis penninerviis pilosulis pilis septatis 

 subtus glauco-pallentibus sub exsiccatione cinerascentibus, cymis axil- 

 laribus et terminalibus simplicibus vel furcatis paucifloris subcapituli- 

 formibus, calycis laciniis oblongis acutis patentibus accrescentibus, 

 corolla breviter infundibulari, genitalibus inclusis, stylo ad medium 

 usque bifido, ovario biloculari compresso vertice subbilobo, ovulis paucis 

 scrobiculatis. — In rupibus pra3cipitibus humidis torrentis juxta templura 

 Sheung-king, prope cacumiua montium Pak-wan, supra Cantonem, m. 

 Septembri, 1868, coUegit cl. Sampson. (Exsicc. n. 15133.) 



Although too young to show the dehiscence of the capsule, tlie re- 

 semblance in habit to H, Thioailesiana, raihi, and H. monospermn, W. 

 and A., leaves no doubt of the position of this plant. In the inflores- 

 cence and size of the leaves it is more nearly allied to those species 

 than to H. affinis, VV. and A., or //. delloidea, W. and A. The dried 

 plant is strikingly like Boerhaavia diffusa, L., in appearance. 



5. Wendlandia uvariifolia, n. sp. ; arbuscula 10-12-pedalis, ramulis 



* If Wight'3 figure (Toon. PI. Ind. Or. vol. iii. p. 993) be really taken from 

 this species, the petals are very badly depicted as to shape and size relative to 

 the calyx-segments. 



