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pyramidal panicle of long-peduncled racemes, 5 to 6 in. long and 

 6 to 9 in. broad, branches and rachis all rusty -pubescent ; common 

 peduncle about 1 in. long ; branch peduncles 2 to 3 in. long, at right 

 angles to the rachis and curved upwards ; racemes about -5 in. long, 

 about 8-flowered; pedicels slender, somewhat clavate, twisted, -5 to 1 in. 

 long ; bracteoles subulate, caducous ; buds ovoid, acuminate. Calyx- 

 lobes triangular, blunt, -05 in. long, rusty-pubescent ; tube as long. 

 Corolla-lobes pink, ovate, long acuminate, -25 in. long, rusty-pubescent 

 within, not gland-dotted ; tube very short. Stamens much shorter 

 than corolla-lobes ; anthers oblong, acute ; filaments very short. Ovary 

 rounded, style subulate, -25 in. long. Berry purplish-black, globose, 

 •2 in. in diam. 



Peeak : at low levels, Wray 296. 



43. Aedisia Maingayi, King & Gamble. A "bush or small tree" 

 (Wray), "slender tree" (Scortechini) ; branchlets smooth, bark brown, 

 pith rather small ; innovations glandular - pubescent. Leaves mem- 

 branous ; sub-opposite or falsely whorled ; elliptic-obovate or obovate- 

 lanceolate, attenuately or abruptly acuminate at apex, attenuately cuneate 

 at base ; glabrous on both surfaces except for a few scattered glan- 

 dular hairs, pale beneath ; margin finely toothed except on the lower 

 third, the teeth caudate and glandular ; 6 to 11 in. long, 2 to 3-5 in. 

 broad ; midrib slender above, thickened below ; main-nerves 15 to 20 

 pairs, irregular in angle and distance, but usually at about 50° with the 

 midrib, straight for about half-way and then curved to and along the 

 margin ; secondary nerves and reticulations very faint ; petiole none 

 or very short, the base of the leaf almost half stem-clasping. 

 Inflorescence of slender, 6 to 8 in. long, sparsely glandular-pubescent, 

 panicles of long peduncled sub-umbellate racemes, from the axils of 

 upper leaves, of abortive leaves, or of the scars of fallen leaves 

 below them ; common peduncle slender, 2 to 3 in. long ; branch 

 peduncles very slender, divaricate, -5 to 1-5 in. long, supported by 

 linear subulate -2 to -3 in. long bracts ; racemes '3 to -5 in. long, 

 8-12-flowered ; bracteoles small, subulate ; pedicels slender, flattened 

 above ; buds ovoid acute. Calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse, '05 to -1 in. 

 long, recurved in fruit, minutely pubescent, ciliate on the margins. 

 Corolla-lobes white, ovate, acute or acuminate, "15 in. long, glabrous, 

 gland-dotted. Stamens much shorter than corolla-lobes ; filaments 

 short, dilated at base ; anthers oblong, bluntly mucronate, "1 in. 

 long. Ovary rounded, glabrous ; style slender, '05 in. long. Berry 

 red, '3 in. in diam., longitudinally ribbed when dry. A. oclonto- 

 phylla, Wall., var. Maingayi, Clarke in Hook. f. M. Br. Ind. III. 526. 



Peeak: Wray 304, 953, 1597; Scortechini 335, 339; Curtis. 



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