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stellate-liairj, lower softly hoary tomentosc : length 5 to 8 in., breadth 

 3 to 45 in., petioles 2 to 3 in. ; stipules shorter than the petioles, 

 scarious, lobed. Cymes corymbose, much shorter than the leaves, 

 spreading, much branched, tomentose. Floivers "2 or "25 in. in diam 

 Calyx pubescent, cut nearly to the base into 5 ovate-lanceolate lobes. 

 Pelah as long as the sepals but much narrower, concave at the base ; the 

 terminal appendage elongate, narrowly oblong, its edges inflexed. 

 Stamens 5. the anthers broad, extrorse. Staminodes 5, lanceolate, spread- 

 ing, reflexed, shorter than the petals. Ovary 5-celled. Capsule globose, 

 •4 or '5 in. in diam., densely covered with long soft, flesuose, pubescent 

 bristles. Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 378. C. Javensis, G. Don. 

 Gen. Syst. i. 523 ; Hassk. PI. Jav. Rar. 312. C. ecliwata, Blume Bijdr. 

 86 ; Wall. Cat. 1143 ; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 519, not of Forst. C. echinata, 

 var. (3. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 182. Buettneria liypoleuca, Turcz. in 

 Mosc. Bull. 1858, 207. 



In all the provinces except the Andamans and Nicobars. Disti'ib. 

 Malayan Archipelago, Philippines. 



12. Leptontchia, Turcz. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves simple, entire. Floivers in small axillary 

 cymes. Sepals 5, valvate, united near the base. Petals 5, valvate, short, 

 orbicular, concave. Andrcecium tubular below, filamentiferous above, 

 filaments 3-seriate, outer series of 5 to 10 ligulate staminodes opposite the 

 petals, middle of 10 fertile stamens also opposite the petals, innermost 

 of 5 very short fleshy subulate staminodes opposite the sepals ; anthers 

 linear-oblong, introrse, dehiscing at the sides longitudinally. Ovary 

 sessile, 3-4-celled ; placentas axile ; styles connate, stigmas capitellate ; 

 ovules many in each cell, anatropous. Capsule 2-3-celled, or by abortion 

 1-celled, dehiscing septicidally or loculicidally, or both simultaneously 

 or irregularly. Seeds black, with a fleshy yellowish arillus; albumen 

 fleshy, cotyledons foliaceous, radicle superior. Distrib. three or four 

 species — Indo Malayan and Tropical African. 



L. GLABRA, Turcz. in Mosc. Bull, for 1858, p. 222. A tree : the 

 young branches glabrous. Leaves ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

 rather abruptly acuminate, the base slightly narrowed or rounded, 3- 

 nerved ; both surfaces glabrous, shining ; main nerves 4 to 7 pairs, thin : 

 length 4 to 8 in., breadth 16 to 3 in. ; petiole '4 to -5 in., glabrous. 

 Flowers "25 in. in diam. ; the buds oblong, obtuse, 5-ridged. Sepals 

 ovate-lanceolate or oblong, rather obtuse, spreading, pubescent on both 

 surfaces, not veined. Petals about one-fourth the size of the sepals 

 broad, triincate, villous. Stamens 10, in five phalanges of two each 



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