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Bijdr, 7U; Pierre Fl. Forest. Cocli-Clnne, t. 208, figs. 12 to 25 ; DC. 

 Prodr. i. 475 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 143 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 60 ; Wight Ic> 

 t. 180; Miq. Fl. lud. Bat. i. pt. 2, 169; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. i. 142 ; 

 Braud. For. Flor. 34. H, chrysocahjx, Miq. in PI. Holien. Isora cory^ 

 lifolia, Wight, Hassk. in Tijds. Nat. Gesch. xii. 107. 



Perak ; and probably in all the provinces. Distrib. Brit. India. 



2. H. HiRSUTA, Lour. Fl. Coch-Chiill^, 648. A shrub 6 or 8 feet 

 high ; the young branches velvetty-tomentose. Leaves ovate, or ovate- 

 rhomboid, sub-oblique (oblong to oblong-lanceolate in vars.) acuminate, 

 iiTegularly erose-serrate ; the base sub-truncate or rounded, rarely sub- 

 emarginate ; upper surface scabrid-pubesceut, the midrib and nerves 

 tomentose; lower velvetty-tomentose ; nerves 4 or 5 pairs, prominent 

 beneath ; length 3"5 to 6 in., breadth 175 to 2'5 in. ; petiole 4 in., 

 tomentose. Cymes scorpioid, few- flowered, axillary, solitary, twice as 

 long as the petiole. Flowers '75 in. long. Calyx narrowly cylindiic- 

 carapauulate, coarsely stellate-tomentose externally, the mouth with 5 

 acute unequal teeth. Petals lineai", suu-spathulate, two i-ather broader 

 than the others with slight horn-like appendages about the middle and 

 all longer than the calyx and about as long as the .stamens. Staminal 

 column and pistils as in H. Isora. Fruit cyliudric, acuminate, nof, 

 twisted, the carpels firmly coherent ; externally densely covered by long 

 villous and stellately pilose soft prickles, 12 in. long and '35 in. in 

 diam. Pierre Fl. Forest. Coch-Chine, t. 208, figs. 1 to 11 ; Kurz For, 

 Fl. Burm. i. 143. H. hirsuta, Bl. Bijdr. 80. II. spicata, Colebr. in Wall. 

 Cat. 1182; Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 366; Oudemansia hirsuta, 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, p. 171 ; Hassk. Retzia, i. p. 184 ; Orthotheciuv% 

 hirsutum, Hassk. PI. Jav. Rar. 308. 



Selangore, King's Collector. Penang, Curtis ; and probably in the 

 other provinces at low elevations. Distrib. Malayan Archipelago 

 China, Brit, India. 



Var. nblonga, (species Wall. Cat. 1183). Leaves oblong, 5 or 6 

 in. long and 135 to r75 in. broad, sparsely stellate-tomentose beneath. 



Penang, Andamans, 



Var. vestita, (.species Wall. Cat. 1844). Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 oblique at the base ; 35 to 5"5 in. long and 1 to 15 in. broad, 



Burraah : ? Andamans. 



There seems to be little doubt that Loureiro and Bin me indepen- 

 dently of each other gave this species the same specific name. Wallich'a 

 distribution of it under Colobroke's MS8. name spicata took place many 

 years subsequently, and tliat name must (although adopted by Dr. 

 Masters) 1 iliink fall to tlie ground. 



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