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sometimes 3, ovate acuminate, thinner, pubescent on the back, cihate 

 and more or less scarious on the margins. Corolla campanulate, '4 in. 

 long ; tube nearly -2 in. long, glabrous outside, densely ferruginous hairy 

 within in the upper half ; lobes 10 (?), lanceolate, acuminate, as long as 

 tube. Stamens 20 in 1 row, but the 10 opposite the corolla-lobes 

 behind the 10 alternate with them ; filaments -05 in. long, hairy ; 

 anthers linear-sagittate, extrorse, the connective produced in a long 

 penicillate acumen. Ovary rounded, densely hairy, as is the lower 

 half of the -75 in. long slender style ; cells 10. Fvwit not known. 



Province Wellbsley : at Tassek Glugor, Curtis 3737, said to be 

 common. Vern. name " Minjato." 



In its leaves this species greatly resembles B. aristulata, but the slender pedicels,, 

 smaller flowers, acuminate calyx, and penicillate anthers at once distinguish it. 



5. Bassia malaccensis, King & Gamble. A large tree (?) ; branchlets 

 dark brown, rough, with prominent old leaf-scars, innovations nearly 

 glabrous. Leaves chartaceous or almost membranous ; obovate or 

 obovate-oblong, obtuse or shortly and abruptly acute at apex, cuneate 

 at base ; glabrous above, sparsely and minutely pubescent beneath 

 when young, glabrous when old ; 6 to 12 in. long, 4 to 6*5 in. broad ; 

 midrib prominent, thick ; main-nerves very conspicuous, 14 to 16 pairs,, 

 parallel, in average leaves -5 in. apart, in large ones often nearly 1 in., 

 starting at an angle of 60° with the midrib, at once curving gently 

 upwards to and along the margin ; secondary nerves few, reticulations 

 mostly transverse, not prominent ; petiole 1 to 2 in. long, slightly 

 bordered above to about half-way down by the decurrent margins of the 

 blade, base much swollen, wrinkled. Floivers fascicled 4 to 8 together in 

 the axils of the leaves or of the scars of fallen leaves, on rather thick 

 pubescent tubercles ; pedicels "4 to '6 in. long, pubescent ; buds when 

 young rounded-conical. Calyx-lobes 4 ; 2 outer valvate or slightly 

 imbricate, ovate, bluntly acute or mucronate, rusty-pubescent, -25 in. 

 long ; 2 inner imbricate, ovate-acute, margins sometimes scarious,. 

 sometimes ciliate, back thickly rusty-pubescent, more or less keeled. 

 Corolla campanulate ; tube very short, rarely -1 in. long, with a short, 

 ring of hairs at the mouth inside ; lobes 10-12, lanceolate, obtuse, sub- 

 2-seriate, -25 to '3 in. long, glabrous except for a few stiff hairs outside. 

 Stamens 20 to 24 in 2 rows ; the inner almost or quite sessile, alternate 

 with the corolla-lobes ; the outer with short densely pubescent filaments, 

 longer than the inner ones ; anthers narrowly lanceolate with long^ 

 hairs, opening on the margins ; connective produced in a long hair-like 

 acumen. Ovary hairy, elongate, conical, style "25 in. long. Frtiit a. 

 fleshy obovate-oblong berry with somewhat flattened top, surmounted 

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