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yellow ; petals obovate, clawed, slightly emargiriate. Stamens 8. 

 Style short and thick. Fruit oblong obcuneate glabrous, broadest at 

 the top and narrowed to the pedical, "75 in. to 1 in. long, - 25 in. 

 through at the top ; pedicel '2 in. long. Seeds not corky, ellipsoid, 

 polished mahogany-brown. 



Hub. Marshes and ditches. India, Belgaum {Ritchie), Concan 

 (Stocks) ; Siam, Chiengmai (Kerr) ; Malay Peninsula, Singapore, 

 Tanglin (Ridley 10699), Tanjong Katong, a dwarf form in coconut 

 estates; Malacca (Griffith); Pulau Besar (Maingay) ; Kelantan, 

 Chaning; Kota Bahru (Ridley); Penang Hill (Wallich 6333). 

 Java (Zollinger 112). Borneo, Sarawak (Haviland) ; Timor 

 (Curtis); Philippines (Cuming 055). New Guinea, Mt Scratchley 

 (Macgregor) ; Kaiser Wilhelm's Land (Weinland); Mt. Carstensz 

 (Kloss). Australia, near Darwin (Allen). China, Hainan (Ford 

 350); Yunnan (Henry 11281). 



Var. exaltata lioxb. Hort. Beng. 33, Fl. Ind. ii. 401. This seems 

 to me to differ only in the more hairy leaves which have numerous 

 short hairs on both sides. It is the commoner form in India, and 

 occurs at Coimbatore and also in Ceylon (Col. Walker, Gardner). 



4. Jussi^a yillosa Lam. Enc'yc. iii. 331. 1 have seen no type 

 of Lamarck's plant; he gives Pheede's " Catta Carambu" (Hort. 

 Malab. ii. 97, t. 50) as a synonym, but this plant is not hairy, and is 

 certainly J. erecta L. and Lamarck's angustifolia. This has been 

 confused with J. speciosa, which has much larger flowers and very 

 different sepals and capsules. 



Stem tall, densely hairy. Leaves lanceolate, narrowed to base 

 and tip, sessile hairy all over, the hairs longer than in L. speciosa, 

 3 in. long, T in. wide. Sepals ovate acute, "3 in, long, *1 in. wide 

 at base, hairy outside. Corolla '75 in. wide ; petals oblong-lanceo- 

 late refuse, "25 in. wide. Fruit thickly cylindric, base narrowed, 

 hairy, 1*25 in. long, - 25 in. through. Seeds dark red, ellipsoid 

 grooved. 



Sab. India, Canara (ILohenacker 016), Anamallaya (Bed do me), 

 Coromandel (Koenig), Maisor and Carnatic (Thomson). Singapore, 

 Alexandra Road {Ridley 5729) — the capsules in this plant quite 

 slender, 1*5 in. long, '2 in. through, cylindric and hairy, widened at 

 the tip; Cambodia, He de Phuquoc (Godefroy-Lebeuf) ; Borneo, 

 Sarawak (Beccari 3244) ; Timor (Mus. Par.) ; Philippines, Negros 

 (Elmer). Australia (Banks <Sf Solander). 



Jussisea speciosa liidl. n. sp. Herba alta undique tomentosa 

 hirsuta 1*2 to 2*2 metralis. Folia lanceolata lata utrinque attenuata ; 

 nervis ultra 20 paribus, 9 cm. longa, 2 - 5 cm. lata vel minora petiolis 

 mm. longis. Flores singuli sessiles axillares. Sepala triangularia 

 acuminata cuspidata extus dense hirsuta 1"2 cm. longa, 6 nun. lata 

 ad basin. Corolla lutea, 8 cm. lata. Petala obovata "1 cm. lata. 

 Stamina 8. Capsula obconica dense tomentosa hirsuta 2 cm. longa, 

 6 mm. lata, semina minuta ellipsoidea rubra polita. 



Hab. S. India, Malay Peninsula. 



A tall plant, 4 to 6 feet high, densely softly tomentose hairy all 

 over. Leaves lanceolate, broad, narrowed at both ends, 4 in. long, 

 1 in. wide ; nerves over 20 pairs; petiole short, distinct, '25 in long. 



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