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cled), fascicles on condensed cymes. Calyx-tube short ; the limb with 3 

 to 5 long or short persistent teeth, sometimes truncate. Gorollainn-ael- 

 or salver-shaped, its throat villous ; the limb with 3 to 7 valvate lobes. 

 Stamens 4 to 6, inserted by short filaments on the throat, often apicu- 

 late, included. Style long or short, stigmas 3 to 9, short, blunt ; ovules 

 1 in each cell, basal, erect, usually linear. Drupe small, containing 3 to 

 9 triquetrous 1-seeded pyrenes. Seeds narrow, with membranous testa ; 

 embryo terete; radicle slender, inferior. — Distrib. About 50 species, 

 mostly tropical Asiatic. 



A genns resembling iu facies Urophyllum ; but distingnished from that by ita 

 1-seeded pyrenes and deeply-lobed, not truncate, calyx-limb; also by its larger 

 stipules, and shorter corolla-tube. 

 Flowers 4-5-merons : — 



Gloraernli hemispheric, sessile, not longer than the pe- 

 tioles ; bracts and flowers numerous : — 



Glomeruli partially or entirely covered (at least when 

 young) by the persistent, often coriaceous, stipules ; 

 leaves usually more than 8 in. long ; bracts longer than 

 the flowers (except in No. 43, var.J :— 



Leaves elliptic-oblong, hispidulous on both surfaces 



Leaves oblanceolate, glabrous on the upper surface, 



pubescent. (usually minutely so) on the lower 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate, glabrous on both surfaces 

 Glomeruli not covered by the more or less deciduous 

 stipules, bracts longer than the flowers : — 



Bracts unequal, diminishing in size inwards ; the 

 outer ovate-lanceolate often 1 in. long; the inner 

 lanceolate or linenr ; pubescence of leaves rusty 

 Bracts uniform, all linear and densely hispid ; leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, thickly coriaceous, rugulose and 

 glabrons on the npper surface ; the lower softly pu- 

 bescent 



Bracts uniform, all broad ; leaves membranous; pu- 

 bescence of leaves yellowish... 

 Cymes twice as long as the petioles with few flowers and 

 few linear hirsute bracts shorter than the flowers ; leaves 

 coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate acute, glabrous above (ex- 

 cept the midrib), softly hairy and reticulate below, main- 

 nerves 11 to 13 pairs; pyrenes 5 to 7 ... ... 



Cymes not much longer than the petioles with few flow- 

 ers but many linear softly hairy bracts longer than the 

 flowers ; leaves membranous, narrowly elliptic, some- 

 what oblanceolate, quite glabrous above; main-nerves 

 8 or 9 pairs ... ... .„ ... 8. L. Ridleyi. 



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1. L. scabridus. 



2. L. Qriffithii. 



3. L. stij)ularis. 



4. L. cyanocarpus. 



5. L. rhinocerotis. 



6. L. inseqnalis, 



7. L. pilosus. 



