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4 to 6 in. ; breadth 1*75 to 2*75 in. ; petioles "25 to '3 in. ; stipules triangu- 

 lar, acuminate, shorter than the petioles, caducous. Cymes from the axils 

 of fallen leaves, many-flowered, almost sessile, much branched from near 

 the base, 2 to 4 in. in diam., the branches puberulous, spi'eading and 

 bearing many acute persistent bracteoles. Flowers "4 in. long, on pe- 

 dicels equalling or exceeding the calyx. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 

 about "1 in. long, the moath with 5 minute acute teeth. Corolla with a 

 short tube hairy on the throat inside; the limb with 5 oblong blunt 

 minutely cuspidate reflexed lobes equalling in length the 5 linear exsert- 

 ed anthers ; filaments dorsifixed. Style much exserted, stigma fusiform. 

 Fruit like a pepper-corn. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 112. Koord. & 

 Valet. Bijdr. VIII. 93. Wehera densiflora, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. III. 

 ed. Carey & Wall. II. 536. W. oppositiflora, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 698; Kurz 

 For. Fl. Burm. II. 47. Stylocoryna densiftora, Wall. Cat. 8404 excl. A. 

 Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. IV. 128, t. 5 A. S. dimorphophylla, Teysm. 

 & Binn. PI. Nov. Hort. Bog. 4. Cupia densiflora and C. oppositiflora, DC. 

 Prod. IV. 394. Gnopachis axilliflora and G. oblongata, Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bot. II. 221. Urophyllum coriaceum, Miq. I.e. Suppl. 542. Ixora 

 Thozetia, F. Mull. Fragm. II. 132. Psychotria, sp. Wall. Cat. 8332. 

 Eubiacea, Wall. Cat. 8455, 8456, 8465. 



Common in all the provinces. — Distrib. Malayan Archipelago ; 

 Hongkong ; North Australia. 



Vab. parvifolia, King & Gamble. Leaves narrowly oblong-elliptic, 

 3 to 5 in. long and 1*25 to 2"75 in. broad ; petioles "15 to '2 in. 



Penang : Curtis 796 ; Ridley 10243. Pbrak : Scortechini 811, King's 

 Collector 1585. 



8. Randia ANisOPHYLLA, Jack in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey and Wall. 

 II. 561. A small unarmed tree; young branches at first rusty- tome n- 

 tose but soon sub-glabrous, pale, and striate, as thick as a goose-quill. 

 Leaves of each pair unequal, coriaceous, obovate-elliptic, shortly cuspi- 

 date, much narrowed from the middle to the base ; upper surface dark- 

 brown when dry, glabrous except the shortly tomentose depressed midrib 

 and nerves ; lower surface paler, tomentose on the midrib, pubescent 

 especially on the transverse veins and on the 10 to 14 pairs of bold 

 spreading main-nerves ; length of the longer of each pair 8 to 10 in., of 

 the smaller 3 to 6 in. ; breadth of the longer 3 to 5 in., of the smaller 1'5 

 to 3 in. ; petioles "3 to 1 in., tomentose, stipules lanceolate, acuminate, 

 tomentose, as long as petioles. Cymes pedunculate, rusty-tomentose 

 everywhere, crowded, spreading, 1*5 to 2 in. in diam. with numerous 

 lanceolate acuminate bracteoles "2 to '25 in. long ; the peduncles about 

 as long as the leaf-petioles. Flowers coriaceous, *75 in, long, on short 

 pedicels or sub-sessile. Calyx tubular-campanulate, with 5 acute lobes or 



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