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2-celled, ovules 2 in each cell, attached to the apex of an erect basilar 

 placenta. Style compressed, slender, long-exserted, thickened and 

 hairy about the middle, stigmatic-lobes 2, short. Fruit dry, indehiscent, 

 obconic, '1 in. long, densely hairy, crowned by 3 accrescent, persistent, 

 veined, oblong somewhat oblanceolate blunt calyx-lobes about 'G in. 

 long; seeds (by abortion) solitary, ellipsoid, embryo straight in the axis 

 of much fleshy albumen ; cotyledons broad, flat. — Distrib. A single 

 Malayan species. 



Jackia ornata. Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey & Wall. II. 

 321. Young branches as thick as the little finger. Leaves oblanceolate, 

 the apex sub-acute, narrowed from above the middle to the short stout 

 petiole ; upper surface glabrous and shining, the lower adpressed- 

 puberulous ; main-nerves about 12 pairs, prominent beneath ; length 6 

 to 12 in. ; breadth 2*5 to 5 in. ; petiole "4 to '9 in.; stipules widely and 

 deeply cupular, often 1 inch or more in length (to the end of the hairy 

 bristles). Flowers '4 in. long; corolla many times longer than the 

 calyx-tube, twice as long as the calyx-lobes when young, densely seri- 

 ceous externally ; bracteoles broadly oblong-ovate, shorter than the 

 flowers, imbricate, sericeous, the lower ones sometimes connate. Wall. 

 PI. As. Ear. t. 293 ; Wall. Cat. 6284; DC. Prod. IV. 621j Hook, fil Fl. 

 Br. Ind. III. 126 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 287. 



In all the provinces. — Distrib. Malay Archipelago. 



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