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longa, 2 ciu. lata, margin e revoluta, nerds utrinque 2-4 arcuatim 

 junctis et reticulatione conspicua insignibus, petiolulo 1-1*5 cm. 

 iongo apice articulate Flores ($ tantum uoti) in racemis 

 unibellarum brevibus subsessilibus stellato-villosis 2-3 cm. 

 longis; pedicelli 1-2 m. longi. Calycis lobi 0. Petala 5, ovata, 

 acumine inflexo, calyptratim decidua. Stamina ignota; staniin- 

 odia in tlore 9 o subulata. Ovarium turbinatum, loculis 5, 

 * stylis perbrevib.us. Fructus ignotus. 



South India. Near Chimunjee, Travancore, in evergreen 

 forest at 1300 in., April, 1895, T. F. Bourdillon 5TG. 



927. Schefflera bengalensis, Gamble [Araliaceae-Scheff- 



lereae] ; S* Roxburgldi, Gamble, (Aralia digitata, Roxb.) affinis, 

 foliolis angustioribus oblongis regulariter nervosis et umbella- 

 rum racemis brevioribus diftert. 



Frutex scandens, raniulis crassis foliorum delapsoruni cica- 

 tricibus annularibus notatis. Folia digitate, foliolis 5 oblongis 

 vel oblongo-lanceolatis glabris 8-20 cm. longis 3-7 cm. latis apice 

 cuspidato-acuminatis basi attenu&tis vel subrotundatis ; foliorum 

 nervi primarii circiter 8-10, regulares, ad margineiu curvati, 

 secundarii et reticulatio satis prominentes; petioli crassi, 

 10-20 cm. longi, petioluli 2-6 cm. Tongi ; stipulae intra petiolares 

 rotimdatae, crassae. Flares sordide rubri, in umbellis in raee- 

 moruni panicuKs terminalibus vix 8-10 cm. longis; rhachis 

 communis crass a, glabra; racemi circiter 10-12 cm. longi; um- 

 bellarum pedunculi 1-2 cm. longi; pedicelli breves, 1-2 cm. 

 longi; bracteae in alabastro magnae, orbiculares, floceoso- 

 puberulae, cito deeiduae. Calycis tubus campanulatus, glaber, 

 truncatus. Corolla valvata, calvptratim decidua; lobi ovati, 

 2 mm. longi. Ovarium 5-loculatum. Fructus carnosus, siccitate 

 5-angulatus, glaber. Heptapleurum venulosum, Seem.; Fl. Br. 

 Ind. ii. 729, in part. 



North India. Mountains of Sikkim at 320-1600 m., /. D. 

 Hooker; C. B. Clarke; J. S. Gamble. Bhutan; Griffith (Kew 

 Pistrib. 2092); Kliasia Hills and Sylhet, /. D. Hooker and 

 7\ Thomson; Simons; Upper Burma; Smalrs. 



928. Linociera Parkinsonii, Hutchinson \Oleaceae- 

 Oleim.iej; affinis L. spicatae, Ridley, sed foliis basi acute 

 cuneatis cliartaceis, pedicellis et calvce puberulo differt. 



Hamuli cortice pallide cinereo obtecti, teretes, glabri, laxe 

 foliati. Folia oblongo-elliptica, basi cuneata, apice longissime 

 acuminata, obtusissima, 5-12 cm. longa, 2-4 cm. lata, chartacea, 

 supra nitidula, infra opaca, utrinque glabra, costa supra 

 impressa infra valde prominente, nervis lateralibus utrinseeu- 

 0-7 a costa sub angulo latissimo abeuntibus circiter 5 mm. 

 intra marginem junctis infra prominulis; petioli 2-4 mm. longi, 

 glabra. Flores axillaris, panel, laxe glomerati; bractae minimae: 

 pedicelli circiter 2 mm. longi, minute puberuli. Calycis seg~ 



menta 4, anguste triangularia, acuta, 1-5 mm. longa, extra 

 puberula. Corollae tubus 2 mm. longus, glaber : segmenta 

 linearia, 4-5 mm. longa, subobtusa, marginibus involute 



