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limb twice as long, glabrous or pubescent. Corolla-tube \-\\ in., lobes 1| in. across. 

 Capsule %-^ in., obovoid, apparently very variable ; in Nipal specimens obovoid \ by 

 in., in Bhotan ones f by in. 



2. Zi. Pinceana, Hook. Sot. Mag. t. 4132; leaves elliptic-lanceolate 

 acuminate, nerves suberect, inflorescence glabrous, corolla-lobes with interposed 

 pairs of tubercles at their bases. L. gratissima, Wall. Cat. 6117 B. 



KHASIA Mrs., Mrs. Mack, &c., alt. 3-5000 ft. MISHMI Hnxs, Griffith. 



A bush 4-5 ft., very similar to L. gratissima, but with leaves smaller, narrowei-, 

 more coriaceous with more numerous (12-14 pair of) nerves which are more straight 

 and ascending. The inflorescence is quite glabrous, calyx-lobes larger, corolla-tube 

 1^-2 in., and lobes nearly 2 in. across, with a pair of raised tmbercles one en each 

 side of the sinus. Capsule -% in. and broadly obovoid in Khasian specimens, very 

 much larger, nearly 1 in. long with strongly ribbed valves in Mishmi ones. 



TRIBE III. RONDELETIEJE. 



12. WENDLANDIA, Bartl. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite or ternately whorled ; stipules entire 

 or 2-fid. Flowers small, rosy or white, in terminal dense thyrsoid or panicled 

 cymes, 2-3-bracteolate. Calyx-lobes 4-5, subequal, small, persistent. Corolla 

 tubular- salver- or funnel-shaped, throat glabrous or hairy ; lobes 4-5, imbri- 

 cate in bud. Stamens 4-5, between the corolla-lobes, filaments or elongate ; 

 anthers versatile, exserted. Ovary 2- (rarely 3-) celled ; style filiform, stigma 

 entire 2-fid or 2-partite ; ovules numerous, on small globose placentas adnate 

 to the septum. Capsule small, globose, loculicidally, rarely septicidally "2- 

 valved, many-seeded. Seeds very minute, horizontal, compressed, testa rnem- 

 "branous obscurely winged; embryo short, cylindric, in fleshy albumen. 

 DISTRIB. Species about 16, tropical Asiatic. 



A. Leaves opposite. 



* Corolla-tube short, not twice the length of the oblong lobes ; anthers large, 

 much exserted. Stipules persistent or caducous. 



1. W. exserta, DC. Pt-odr. iv. 411 ; softly tomentose or pubescent all 

 over, leaves opposite ovate-lanceolate glabrate above finely acuminate, stipules 

 persistent recurved, calyx hairy lobes ovate or subulate, corolla-tube shorter 

 than the lobes, stigma 2-partite. W. $ A. Prodr. 402; Wall. Cat. 6267 

 A. 0. D. E. F. in part ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 130 ; Brand. For. Fl. 268. W. cinerea, 

 Wall Cat. 6268; DC. Prodr. iv. 412. Kondeletia exserta, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 

 14 ; Fl. Ind. i. 523. R. cinerea, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 

 141. R. thyrsiflora and orissensis, Roth Nov. Gen. $ Sp. 142. R. Heynei, 

 Roem. fy Sch. Syst. v. 234. 



Dry forests of the TBOPICAI, HIMALAYA, from the Chenab eastward to Nipal and 

 Sikkim, ascending to 4000 ft. ORISSA, CENTEAL INDIA, N. DECCAN, and CONCAN. 



A small crooked tree ; branches terete. Leaves coriaceous, 4-9 by l-3 in. ; 

 Tierves 10-18 pair, arched; stipules ovate, acute, recurved. Panicles sessile, pyra- 

 midal, 6-10 in. broad and long. Flowers in. diam., white, fragrant, sessile. Stamens 

 nearly as large as the corolla-lobes. Capsule ~ in. diam., white, tomentose. 



2. W. puberula, DC. Prodr. iv. 412; leaves opposite elliptic-lanceolate 

 acuminate glabrous except the nerves above slightly hairy chiefly on the nerves 

 beneath, stipules persistent erect, panicle pubescent, calyx hairy, lobes triangular 



