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rugosa ; nervi primarii inconspicui, utrinque 6-7, margines 

 versus reticulatione connexi. Flares albi, in racemos axillares 

 densos 1*5 ad 2 cm. longos dispositi ; racemi in axillis bini, ad 

 basin perulis multis late-ovatis paleaceis aureo-fulvis suffulti ; 

 rhachis f ulvo-villosa, angulata ; bracteae perulis similes ; 

 pedicelli 3-4 mm. longi ; bracteolae fulvae, spathulatae. Calyx 

 spathaceus, irregulariter 3-4-lobatus, ad 3 mm. longus. Peloid 

 5, aequalia, oblongo-spathulata, angusta, glabra, 4 mm. longa. 

 Stamina 10, 5 paullo breviora ; filamenta gracilia, glabra, 6-8 mm. 

 longa, antherarum loculis parallelibus. Ovarium ovoideum, 

 densissime fulvo-villosum, sensim in stylum attennatum ; stylus 

 superne glaber, stigmate oblique- obscure bilobo ; ovula 1-2. 

 Legumen reniforme indehiscens, medio aequaiiter constrictum ; 

 1*5 cm. longum, 2 cm. latum ; pericarpio crasso brunneo. Semen 

 unicum, magnum, legumini conforme ; testa irregulariter fraeta ; 

 cotyledones crassissimae, supra et infra profunde fissae, radicula 

 conica. 



South India. Banks of the Parapar river, Travancore, 150 m., 

 T. F. Bourdillon. 



This species may be the same as that collected on the S. Ghats of 

 the Nilgiris by J. S. Law in 1892, of which specimens are in the 

 Kew Herbarium. But the leaflets of Law's specimens are bluntly 

 acuminate at the apex and very deeply emarginate. It flowers in 

 February and March ; fruits in July and August. 



505. Cotyledon lateralis, N. E. Brown [Crassulaceae] ; species 

 distinctissima, cymis patentibus axillaribus folia vix excedentibus 

 et corolla viridi-lutei facile distinguitur. 



Caulis brevis, 3-4 cm. crassus, simplex. Folia 8-11 cm. longa, 

 1-6-1-8 cm. lata, 4-5 mm. crassa, lineari-ligulata, basi levissime 

 dilatata, plana, acuta, mucronata, glabra, laetevirentia, sublucida, 

 nee glauca, numerossima, in rosulam 22-25 cm. diam. dense 

 conferta, superiora erecto-patentia, inferiora deflexa. Cymae 

 ex axillis inferioribus enatae, pedunculatae, horizontaliter patentes, 

 folia aequ antes vel vix excedentes, compactae vel subdensae, 

 multiramosae, floribus 80-130. Pedunculi 6-8 cm. longi, 4-5 mm. 

 crassi, pallide virentes, apice tantum bracteiferi. Bracteae 

 patentes, 4-9 mm. longae, basi 1*5-5 mm. latae, deltoideo-lanceo- 

 latae vel deltoideo-ovatae, acuminatae, basi cordato-amplexicaules, 

 glabrae, laete virentes. Pedicrill 4-7 mm. longi, glabri, virentes. 

 Calyx 5 (siccate 4) mm. longus, 5-lobus, basi cupularis, glaber, 

 laete virens ; lobi erecti, 3 mm. longi, deltoideo-attenuati, acuti. 

 Corolla 10 (siccate 8*5-9) mm. longa, 4 mm. diam., subcylindnca, 

 obtuse pentagona, glabra, viridi-lutea ; eegmenta erecta, acuta, fere 

 ad medium connata. Stamina inclusa ; antherae luteae. Car- 

 pella pallide virescentia. 



Origin unknown, probablv a native of Mexico or adjacent 

 regions. Flowered at Kew during the summer of 1908. 



l»0^ 506. Wrightiasikkimensis,(?rtW^[Apocynaceae]; W.tii toriae, 



K- Br., foliis et fructu affinis sed floribus coccineis 'et pniecipue 

 corollae appendicibus ijiaequalibus drntatis nee fimbnatis ditterk 

 Arbor parva ; ramuli teretes, purpurei, lenticellis sparsis notati 

 Folia membrameea. cvaneo-viridia, elliptico-lanceolata vel 



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