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cent margins. Petals with perfect veins, connective of the an- 
thers narro w. 
Ovarium very slightly pubescent or quite smooth. | Style tri- 
partite, lacinie generally with a recurved apex, and there 
dilated and stigmatose ; ovula one. 
1 Cotyledons inauriculate plumule large. 
Assam Chinese imported plants. 
Stature smaller, and much more contracted than native 
Assam plants. Leaves much smaller, pale with a leathery ap- 
pearance, lanceolate obtusely acuminate. Pedicels, calyx, co- 
rolla and stamen as in the Assam plant. 
- . Ovarium densely pubescent. Ovula 4 to each cell, style 
_ tripartite subdilated at the apex and stigmatose there. 
- Fruit not seen. 
E, 
- Chusan plants in the collection. 
Very dwarf and contracted leaves tending to be obovate, 
small, of the black unleathery appearance of the Assam. 
plant. Pedicels and calyx as in that. 
Ovarium densely pubescent. 
Pringitt plants. 
Stature contracted, dense, leaves very small, light-greenish 
leathery lanceolate always obtuse generally emarginate. 
Pedicels as before, calyx pubescent. Petals veins not reaching 
| tothe margin. Connective dilated emarginate. 
— Ovarium densely sericeo-villous, style 3-partite. Branches 
radiating, with a punctiform stigma on the undilated apex 
of each, 
Cotyledons unequally auriculate at the base, one hooded, 
Tadicle large, plumula small. 
Assam leaves always have a thin appearance, I have not 
determined the absolute situation of the ovula, from dried 
Specimens, owing to shrinking. 
_ *he China plants cultivated in Assam have as complete 
veing of the petals as the Assam wild plants, 
