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nerves have tufts of hair only in their axils. In all the Perak specimens the stipules 

 are much narrower than in those from the Himalaya and Khasia mountains. 



3. Rhoboleia, Hook. 



Glabrous woody shrubs. Leaves exstipulate, evergi^een, alternate, 

 witb long petioles, coriaceous, glaucous beneath. Flowers in few-flower- 

 ed axillary pedunculate reflexed capitula surrounded by numerous 

 whorls of coloured bracts, increasing in size from without inwards. 

 Floivers unsyrametrical, hermaphrodite, adnate in the capitula by their 

 calyces. Calyx-tube adherent to the lower half of the ovary ; its limb 

 annular, truncate, glandular inside. Petals rosy, 2-4, very unequal, 

 unilateral, deBcient in the central flowers, clawed, oblong-oblanceolate. 

 Stamens 7-10, inserted with the petals ; the filaments thick, elongate ; 

 the anthers linear-oblong, basifixed, 2-celled, the connective not pro- 

 duced. Ovary half -inferior, ovoid, the apex bifid, 2-celled, or 1-celled 

 by abortion of the septum. Style subulate, eJongatej deciduous, stigma 

 simple. Ovules numerous in each cell, inserted on two biseriate axile 

 placentas. Capsule sub-ligneous, bicuspidate, 2-celled, 2-valved ; the 

 valves bifid, many-seeded. Seeds imbricate, not winged, angular, com- 

 pressed, testa crustaceous. Distrib. Two species ; Hongkong and Su- 

 matra. 



Rhodoleia Teysmanni, Miq. in Versl. en Meded. K. Akad. v. 

 Wetensch. VI, 124. Leaves oblong to elliptic, the apex obtuse, slightly 

 narrowed at the base to the long petiole, both surfaces rugulose when 

 dry ; main nerves 7-9 pairs, spreading, faint ; the midrib prominent 

 beneath; length 2'5-5 in., breadth l"5-2 in., petiole 'TS-lvS in. 

 Capitula solitary, about '75 in. long, ovoid, on decurved peduncles about 

 •25 in. long ; the bracts broad, blunt, the outer short and glabrous, 

 the inner longer and covered with reddish hair. Stamens and petals 

 subequal, about '5 in. long. Pipe capsules glabrous, about '4 in. long, 

 dehiscing widely for about half their length. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, 

 pt. 2, p. 669 ; Suppl. 532. 



Malacca ; Hervey ; Pidley 3289. Perak ; elev. 3900 feet in Batang 

 Padung Valley, Wray 1481. Distrib. Sumatra. 



Order XLIII. HALORAGE^. 



Herbs, often aquatic. Leaves opposite or whorled, or partly alter- 

 nate, when submerged often pinnatisect, always exstipulate. Floivers 

 small, axillaiy, solitary or fascicled, sessile or pedicelled, hermaphrodite 

 or unisexual, tlie nodes between the floral whorls sometimes developed. 

 Calyx-lobes 4 or 0. Petals 4 and epigynous, or absent. Stamens 8, 4 or 

 1, epigynous in the bisexual flowers. Ovary inferior, 4- 2- or 1-celled ; 



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