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W. & A. Prod. 431. P. villusa, Heyne in Roth. Nov. Sp. 88 (not of Napl.) 

 Ixora tnmentosa VAR. glahrescens, Kurz. Fl. Burra. II. 19. 

 In all tlie provinces : common. 



The variety tomenfosa, Hook. fil. I.e. characterised byoVat:e or rotund elliptic 

 often subacute thickly membranous leaves more or less pubescent or tomentose, 

 aad with the inflorescence also pubescent or tomentose occurs cliiefly in British 

 India. The synonymy of it is as follows : P. tomenfosa, Wall. Cat. 61V3 all the sheets 

 except E. : P velutina 6174 : P. mollis 6179 ; P. canescens 6181. 



2. Pavetta nauclbiflora, Wall. Cat. 6171. A shrub or small tree, 

 young branches thicker than a crow-quill, tawny-tomentose. Leaves 

 oblanceolate, shoitly acuminate, narrowed from above the rhiddle to the 

 petiole; both surfaces olivaceous when dry; the upper at first pubes- 

 cent, afterwards becoming less so, but even when adult the midrib alvva3^s 

 pubescent ; the lower densely and persistently pale-pubescent, espe- 

 cially on the midrib and 9 or 10 pairs of oblique prominent main-nerves ; 

 length 4'5 to 7 in.; breadth 1*35 to 2"75 in.; petiole "3 to "75 in,, pubes- 

 cent. Si^i/^^Jes broadly triangular, acuminate. C't/r??es terminal, solitary, 

 densely compound-umbellate, 1"75 in. broad and not quite so long, the 

 branches and pedicels densely pubescent; branches divaricate with a few 

 ovate-lanceolate bracteoles near the flowers. Flowers "75 in. long, exclu- 

 ding the style, on unequal pedicels always longer than the calyx. Calyx 

 tubular "l in. long, ribbed, densely pubescent, the mouth with 5 short 

 triangular erect teeth. Gorolla-tuhe narrowly cylindric, snb-glabrous ; 

 limb pubescent and with 4 oblong blunt lobes. Fruit globular nqt 

 ridged, spai^sely hairy, crowned by the small calyx, "25 in. in diam. 

 two-celled by abortion. Seed single fleshy, convex on the back ; 

 G. Don, Gen. Syst. III. 675 : Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 152. Ixora 

 naucleiflora, Kurz, For. Flora. II. 19. 



Penang: Curtis 1060, 2217,2646,3382. Perak : Scortechini ; Wray 

 3619. — DisTRiB. Base of Eastern Himalaya, Burma. 



3. Pavetta humilis. Hook. fil. FL Br. Ind. III. 151. A small 

 shrub with unbranched pale rough stem 6 to 12 in. long, densely pubes- 

 cent at first but afterwards sub-glabrous. Leaves membranous, close 

 together, oblong-oblanceolate, shortly acuminate, much narrowed at the 

 base ; upper surface minutely ruguloso when dry, glabrous, the midrib 

 sparsely adpressed-hispid ; lower surface sub-adpressed hispidulous : 

 main-nerves 6 or 7 pairs, faint, little curved, ascending; length 3'5 to 6 

 in,; breadth 1*25 to 1"75 in.; petiole '3 to "5 in., swollen at the base, his- 

 pid ; stipules broadly triangular, acuminate, hispid. Cymes solitary 

 terminal, sessile or sub-sessile, usually 1 to 1'5 in. in diam., dense. 

 Flowers shortly pedicellate, glabrous, "75 in, long. Calyx funuel-shajDcd, 

 the mouth with 4 short acute teeth. Corolla-luhe about '6 in. long, 



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