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cylindric ; the lobes 4 or 6, oblong, blunt, villous inside. Stamens 4 or 5, 

 on short compressed filaments; anthers oblong, their tips exserted. 

 Fruit ovoid-glabose, sub-ligneous, glabrous, with 8 to 10 vertical ridges, 

 crowned by the calyx-lobes, -25 in. long, and 2 in. in diam., 4- or 5- 

 celled, with a single compressed erect seed in each cell. Kurz Fl. Burra. 

 II. 32. Hook. til. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 179. Mephitidia stipularis, DO. 

 Prod. IV. 453. 



Singapore : Ridley 4903, 6559, 10419 ; King. Selangor : Ridley 

 8230,8575. Perak: 8 cor techini 213 ; TFray 2019 ; Bidley 97 4<3 ; King's 

 Ogllector 340. — Distrib. Malay and Andaman Archipelagos. 



4. Lasianthds cyanocarpus, Jack in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV. 125. 

 A shrub 6 to 8 feet high ; all parts more or less tawny- or rusty-hirsute, 

 the hairs shining and often flexuose ; young branches half as thick as 

 a goose-quill. Leaves coriaceous, oblong, oblong-elliptic or oblanceo- 

 late-oblong, shortly acuminate, the base somewhat narrowed, unequal- 

 sided ; upper surface dark olivaceous-brown when dry, the lower paler 

 with the transverse veins distinct ; main-nerves 7 to 10 pairs, curved, 

 spreading and ascending, bold on the lower surface, depressed on the 

 upper when dry ; length 45 to 65 in.; breadth 1*65 to 225 in.; petioles 

 •15 to '25 in. Stipules narrowly triangular, acuminate, "2 in. long. 

 Cymes sessile, shorter tlian the petioles, enveloped by a number of 

 densely hirsute bracts diminishing in size inward ; the outer ovate- 

 lanceolate acuminate and often 1 in. or more in length ; the inner much 

 smaller, lanceolate or linear. Flowers only 3 or 4, sessile, concealed 

 amongst the numerous bracts, only about '25 in. long and shorter than 

 even the innermost bracts. Calyx longer than or about as long as the 

 corolla, campanulate, with 4 or 5 long narrow hirsute lobes. Corolla 

 tubular, glabrous inside ; its lobes oblong, blunt. Anthers oblong, blunt, 

 almost sessile. Fruit ovoid-globular, glabrous, but crowned by the long 

 hirsute calyx-lobes, 2 to '25 in. long, separating into 4 or 5 three-sided, 

 one-seeded pyrenes. Kurz For. Fl. Burma, II. 32; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. III. 179. L. bracteatus and L. Roxhtirghii, Wight in Calc. Journ. 

 Nat. Hist. VI. 501, 502. L. oculus-Gafi; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 315. L. 

 laevicaulis, Kurz in Trimen's Journ. Bot. 1875, p. 327. Lasianthus ? 

 Wall. Cat. 8440. Mephitidia cyanocarpa, DO. Prod. IV. 452. M. 

 rhinozerotis, Kurz in Andaman Report, Append. A. 40; (not of Blume ?). 

 Triosteum hirsutum Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 538. Bubiacea, Wall. Oat. 8305. 



In all the Provinces, common. — Distrib. British India, Malay 

 Archipelago, 



VAR. subsessilis ; petioles only about "1 in. long, bases of leaves 

 oblique. 



Perak: Ridley 9730; King's Collector 472; Scortechini 1207. 



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