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petioles '36 to 1'2 in. ; stipules (dried specimens) reduced to rugulose 

 transverse bands. Cymes terminal, solitary, pedunculate, in flower much 

 shorter than, but in fruit half as long as, the leaves or even more ; the 

 branches divaricate, slender, many-flowered, in fruit often as much as 2*5 

 in. long. Flowers "35 in. long, secund, on short puberulous pedicels, very 

 narrow in bud. Calyx cylindric, '05 in. long ; its teeth broadly triangu- 

 lar, sub-acute, 1-nerved. Corolla '3 in. long, narrowly cylindric; the 

 mouth with 5 short blunt reflexed teeth. Anthers 5, linear, cordate at 

 the base. Capsules narrowly rhomboid, the upper edge marginate, glab- 

 rous, "3 in. across. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 84 as a doubtful species. 



Perak: Scortechini 1313; Wray 3731,4050; King's Collector 2187, 

 71J9, 5853, 7186, 7119; Curtis.— Bistro. Burma. 



3. Ophiorhiza fasciculata, Don Prod. Fl. Nep. 136. Stem 10 to 

 14 in. high, erect, little-branched, woody, and nearly as thick as a goose- 

 quill below, puberulous. Leaves of a pair very unequal in size, mem- 

 branous, narrowly elliptic or oblong-elliptic, sub-acute, the base cuneate ; 

 upper surface very dark olivaceous when dry, glabrous, the nerves and 

 midrib pale and prominent ; lower surface pale yellowish-brown, puber- 

 ulous on the midrib and 9 to 11 pairs of boldly curved spreading dark- 

 coloured main-nerves ; the reticulations also puberulous, their interspaces 

 glabrous ; length of the larger leaves 5 or 6 in. ; breadth 1*5 to 2 

 in. ; the smaller leaves of the pairs "8 to 2*5 in. long and "85 to 1"6 in. 

 broad; petioles '2 to '8 in. long. Stipules 'IS in. long, subulate with 

 dilated bases. Cymes usually solitary, but sometimes 2 or 3 together, 

 terminal, pedunculate, usually less than half as long as the leaves even 

 when in fruit, puberulous everywhere, ebracteate ; branches shorter 

 than the peduncles. Flowers small (rather less than -25 in. long), on 

 short puberulous pedicels. Calyx narrowly campanulate, densely puberu- 

 lous, boldly ribbed ; the teeth shorter than the tube, triangular, acute, 

 erect. Corolla '2 in. long, cylindric, inflated in the lower part and 

 expanded at the mouth ; the 5 lobes short, blunt. Anthers narrowly 

 linear, on short filaments. Capsules obreniform, the sinus shallow, 

 glabrous, '25 in. across. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 83. 0. bracteolata, 

 R. Br. in. Wall. Cat. 6228. 



Perak: King's Collector 220&; Wray 1989. — Distrib. Himalaya 

 and Khasia. 



4. Ophiorhiza hispidula, Wall. Cat. 6234. Erect, little-branched, 

 slender, pubescent, thicker than a crow-quill. Leaves of the pair un- 

 equal, membranous, ovate-lanceolate, sub-acute, cuneate (sometimes 

 abruptly so) at the base ; upper surface (when dry) olivaceous, glabrous, 

 the midrib prominent but the nerves rather obscure ; lower surface pale 

 olivaceous, otherwise sub-glabx'ous but the bold midrib and 6 or 7 pairs 



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