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oblong, shortly acuminate, narrowed to the base ; surface reticulate, 

 glabrous, except for a few ad pressed hairs near the base, and on the 

 midrib and longer nerves ; main-nerves 8 or 9 pairs, thin, prominent 

 on tbe lower surface, slightly curved, ascending ; length 5 to 65 in., 

 breadth 1'5 to 2 in. ; petiole stout, adpressed rusty-pubescent, about 

 '15 in. long; stipules triangular, shorter tban the petioles. Cytne, 

 ebracteate, axillary, few-flowered, sessile, about twice as long as the 

 petioles." Flowers '4 in. long, on pedicels much shorter than themselves. 

 Calyx adpressed-pubescent, campanulate, deeply divided into 4 or 5 

 somewhat spreading, lanceolate, acuminate lobes. Corolla glabrous out- 

 side, longer than the calyx, salver- shaped; the tube densely pilose in- 

 side ; the lobes oblong, thickened at their apices, reflexed. Filaments 

 about as long as the 5 or 6 linear anthers. Fruit unknown. Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. III. 187. 



Pebak: King's Collector 'ihS^, 10100. 



The collector, in his field-note, describea the corolla as white and the calyx aa 

 blue. 



27. Lasianthus Wightianus, Hook, fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 188. 

 A shrub ? Young branches compressed, varying in thickness, some as 

 thick as a goose-quill, all as well as the petioles, the backs of the sti- 

 pules, the under-surfaces of the main-nerves, and both sides of the 

 m^idrib of the leaves minutely rusty adpressed-pubescent. Leaves dark- 

 brown when dry, elliptic-oblong, the apex shortly acuminate, the base 

 rounded, rarely sub-acute ; upper-surface finely reticulate, the veins 

 and nerves sparsely strigose ; under-surface strongly reticulate, the 

 veins and nerves pubescent ; main-nerves 10 to 13 pairs, very promi- 

 nent, curved, spreading; length 3*5 to 4"25 in.; breadth 1*25 to 1*5 in., 

 petioles '1 to "15 in.; stipules triangular, acuminate, as long as the 

 petioles. Cymes slightly longer than the petioles, few-flowered, ebrac- 

 teate. Flowers clustered, sub-sessile. Calyx pubescent, "1 in, long, 

 narrowly campanulate, with 5 small triangular spreading teeth. Corolla 

 and fruit unknown. Mephitidea venosa, Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. 

 Hist, VI. 514, not of Blume. 



Malacca : on Mount Ophir, Griffith (K.D.) 2922. 

 28. Lasianthus pterospbrmds, Wight in Calc, Journ. Nat, Hist. 

 VI. 510, A shrub ; young branches half as thick as a goose-quill, com- 

 pressed especially at the nodes, strigose-puberulous, becoming sub- 

 glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, shortly and 

 bluntly acuminate or sub-acute, narrowed to the slightly oblique, rarely 

 sub-acute, base ; both surfaces when dry reticulate, pale-brown, tinged 

 with olivaceous, the upper glabrous, the lower minutely substrigose, 



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