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much -branched shrub 3 to 7 feet high ; young branches thinner than a 

 goose-quill, slightly compressed, swollen at the nodes, pale, deciduously 

 puberulous. Leaves thinly membranous, greenish when dry, broadly 

 obovate-lanceolate, oblong or elliptic, abruptly and shortly caudate- 

 acuminate, the base narrowed to the rather short petiole ; upper surface 

 quite glabrous ; the lower scurf y-puberulous on the broad midrib and 

 9 to 13 pairs of curved spreading main-nerves ; length 5 to 10 in. ; 

 breadth 2-5 to 4 in. ; petiole -75 to 1-15 in. Stipules free, broadly trian- 

 gular, "15 in. long. Cymes terminal, solitary, peduncled, about 2 in. long 

 (including the peduncle) and the same in breadth, umbellately branched 

 from near the base ; the ultimate branches numerous, bearing terminal 

 many-flowered globular minutely bracteolate cymules, about "5 in. in 

 diam., the common peduncle about an inch or more long, the branches 

 shorter, all puberulous. Flowers on short puberulous pedicels, ovoid in 

 bud, about '15 in. long when expanded. Calyx cupular, with 5 or 6 

 triangular acute sub-erect teeth. Corolla longer than the calyx, the 

 tube cylindric and, like the throat, densely white- sericeous inside ; 

 lobes of the limb short, triangular, deflexed. Anthers bifid at the base. 

 Style thick, bifid, longer than the corolla. Fruit ellipsoid-obovoid,. 

 10-ridged, crowned by the small calyx, glabrous, "3 in. long. Seed 

 dorsally with 4 faint ridges, ventrally somewhat concave. 



Peeak : Scortechini 214, 291 ; King's Collector 436, 867, 2862, 5402, 

 7380, 7513, 10559. 



14. PscHYOTRiA TORTiLis, Blume Bijdr. 958. Stem woody below, 

 erect, 6 to 18 in. high, not branched, cinereous, 4-angled, sparsely 

 covered with short coarse scurfy hairs. Leaves membranous, broadly 

 elliptic or ovate-elliptic, the apex acute or sub-acute, narrowed from 

 below the middle to the petiole ; upper surface when dry dark green, 

 the lower pale, glaucous, minutely lepidote ; the 8 to 11 pairs of slightly 

 curved spreading main-nerves covered with minute short coarse 

 deciduous dark-coloured hairs ; length 4 to 6 in.; breadth 1-75 to 3 in. ; 

 petioles -5 to 2 in., compressed, scurfy-pubescent. Stipules broadly tri- 

 angular, much acuminate, bifid, -15 to "3 in. long. Cymes solitary, sessile,, 

 axillary, dichotomous, many-flowered, condensed, -5 in. to 1 in. long and 

 as much broad. Floioers '15 in. long, on short ebracteolate pedicels. 

 Calyx campanulate, with 5 triangular spreading teeth, covered with coarse 

 hair. Corolla longer than the calyx, narrowly campanulate, with 

 5 ovate acute lobes, hairy like the calyx. Anthers 5, sessile, oblong, 

 blunt, included. Style shorter than the calyx ; stigmas short, linear, 

 divergent. Fruit crowned by the small calyx-lobes, reniform, pale with 

 numerous short vertical brown streaks, and stiff short white hairs, "1 in. 

 broad and less in length ; the dorsal surface of each of the twa 



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