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2938) to deserve specific rank. It agrees with a Sumatra plant in Herb. Calcutta 

 bearing the MSS. name A. peltastigma, Miq. But we can find no description of the 

 species. 



21. Urophyllum, Wall. 



Small trees or shrubs with terete slender branches. Leaves petiolate, 

 usually elongate and acuminate. Stipules elongate small, rarely large. 

 Flowers small (sometimes unisexual) in small axillary, sessile or pedun- 

 culate cymes or fascicles ; their pedicels usually short, bracteolate at 

 the base. Calyx-tuhe short, sub-globose or obconic, the limb cupular, 

 persistent, usually 5-lobed (rarely 4- to 7-lobed). Corolla coriaceous, 

 with a short tube and villous throat ; the limb with 5 (rarely 4 to 7) 

 erect or spreading triangular valvate lobes. Stamens 5 (rarely 4 to 7), 

 inserted by short filaments in the throat. Anthers linear, acute, dorsi- 

 fixed. Disc tumid, sulcate. Ovary 5 (rarely 4- to 7-celled) ; style short, 

 often tumid at the base ; stigma ovoid or clavate entire or notched. 

 Ovules numerous, on axillary placentas. Fruit a small 4- to 5-celled 

 many-seeded berry. Seeds minute, sub-globose; the testa pitted, 

 crustaceous ; the embryo clavate, in fleshy albumen. — Distrib. about 35 

 species ; tropical Asiatic and African and one in Japan. 



Leaves more or less hairy : — 

 The whole of the under surface of the leaves more or 

 leas pubescent : — 



Leaves elliptic-oblong, 6 to 10 in. long : — 

 Cymes with large permanent bracts ... 1. U. viUosum. 



Cymes ebracteate or with small deciduous bracts 2. U. macrophyllum. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 2' 5 to 5 in. long : — 

 Pubescence of leaves, young branches and fruit 

 cinereous ... ... ... ... 3. U, hirsutum. 



Pubescence of leaves and young branches warm - 



ferrngineons, fruit glabrous ... ... 4. U. ferrugineum. 



Under surfaces of the leaves pubescent only on the 

 midrib and nerves :— 



Leaves 8 to 10 in. long : — 

 Flowers on bracteolate pedunculate, triohotom. 

 ously umbellate cymes several inches across 



Leaves 8 to 5 in. long : — 



Flowers in dense many-flowered sessile cymes or 



in few-flowered shortly pedunculate umbels ; 



fruit sparingly hairy or sub-glabrous ; leaves not 



buUate ... ,., 



Leaves everywhere glabrous ; — 

 Flowers 5-merou8 : — 

 Umbels simple ; flowers glabrous, on slender pedi- 

 cels : — 



Umbels 10- to 12-flowerod; leaves caudate-acu- 



SO 



U, macrophyllum, 



var. corymhosa. 



5. 17, fitreptopodium,. 



