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3. H. ANGUSTiFOLiA, L. sp. 1366. A shrub 4 to 6 feet liigh : young 

 branches, petioles, under surfaces of leaves and peduncles minutely and 

 more or less densely pubescent. Leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute 

 (or obtuse and mucronate in var. obtusa) ; entire ; the base narrowed 

 3-nerved ; upper surface glabrescent or glabrous ; lateral nerves 5 or 6 

 pairs, not prominent; length 1'5 to 2 in., breadth '4 to "8 in., petiole 

 '2 to "3 in. Oymes axillary, solitary, not much longer than the petioles, 

 few-flowered. Floivers "4 or '5 in. long. Calyx densely stellate-tomen- 

 tose externally, cylindric, the mouth slightly expanded, with 5 acute 

 triangular teeth, 2-lipped. Petals longer than the calyx, linear-sub- 

 spathulate, with 2 or 3 horned appendages below the middle. Staminal 

 column shorter than the petals, narrowly cylindi'ic and otherwise as in 

 S. Isora, the stamens smaller. Ovary inserted near tha apex of the 

 staminal tube, sub-globular, ridged, tomentose. Fruit ovoid-cylindric, 

 apiculate, not twisted, the carpels closely coherent, "75 in. long and 

 •4 in. in diam., densely covered with stellate, villous soft prickles as in 

 H. Ursula. DC. Prodr. i. 476 ; Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 365 ; 

 Bl. Bijdr. 80; Pierre Fl. Forest. Coch-Chine, t. 210 and 211 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 1180. H. lanceolata, DC. Prodr. i. 476; Pierre, 1. c. 210 B. 

 S. virgata, Wall. Cat. 1181. Oudemansia integerrima, Miq. PI. Jungh, 

 i. 296 ; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 170. Oticl. Javensis, Hassk. Retzia, i. 13 Jt. 

 Orthothecium Javense, Hassk. PI. Jav. Rar. 307. 



Malayan Archipelago, China. 



Var. ohtusa, (species Wall. Cat. 1184) ; Pierre, 1. c. 211 B, 14 to 25. 

 Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1873, pt. ii. 62. Leaves obtuse, 

 mucronate. 



Perak ; Nicobar Islands. 



6. Pterospermum, Schreb. 



Trees or shrubs, scaly or stellate-tomentose. Leaves usually bifari- 

 ous, leathery, oblique, simple or lobed, penninerved. Peduncles 1-3, 

 axillary and terminal. Bracteoles entire, laciniate, persistent or cadu- 

 cous. Calyx of 5 valvate, coriaceous, more or less connate, sepals. 

 Petals 5, imbricate, membranous, deciduous with the calyx. Staminal 

 column short, bearing opposite to the sepals 3 linear 2-celled anthers, 

 and opposite to the petals 5 ligulatc staminodes ; cells parallel ; connec- 

 tive apiculate. Ovary inserted within the top of the staminal column, 

 3-5 celled ; style entire, stigma 5-fui'rowed ; ovules many in each cell. 

 Capsule woody or coriaceous, terete or angled, loculicidally 5-valved. 

 Seeds winged above, attached in two rows to the inner angle of the cells 

 of the capsule; albumen tliin or 0; cotyledons plaited or corrugated, 



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