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41. KEEN ARIA, Hook. f. 



A low subherbaceous shrub; stern woody, flexuous, cyliudric. Leaves 

 opposite, elongate-oblanceolate, abruptly aciiminate, narrowed into the petiole, 

 membranous; stipules long, interpetiolar, subulate from an ovate-lanceolate 

 base. Floivcrs sessile, in dense bracteate terminal solitary subsessile involucrate 

 heads, mixed with coriaceous imbricating concave bracts ;" outer bracts orbioular, 

 inner oblong or spathulate, concave; bracteoles 2, spathulate, coriaceous, equalling 

 the flowers. Calyx-tube fleshy, shortly oblong ; limb of 5 rarely 6 large oblong 

 or spathulate, coriaceous, obtuse or acute, unequal, erect, concave, imbricating 

 lobes. CoroUq about equalling the calyx-lobes ; tube -inflated, glabrous ; lobes 

 5, short, orbicular-ovate, apiculate, papillose externally, valvate in bud ; throat 

 with a ring of stiff hairs. Stamens 5, epigynous, seated at the base of the 

 broad-lobed disk ; filaments short : anthers small, linear, obtuse, without pollen. 

 Ovary 2-celled ; style short, stigmas 2 flat ovate acute; ovules very numerous, 

 crowded on globose placentas adnate to the membranous septum. 



1. K. modesta, Hook. f. 



CACHAE ; at the Doarband Pass, E. L. Kccnan. 



Stan as thick as a goose-quill, apparently inclined or prostrate, puberulous above, 

 as are the petioles. Leaves 6-12 by l|-3 in., membranous, green when dry, midrib 

 slender, and 15-20 pair of almost horizontal slightly arched nerves, puberulous 

 beneath; petiole ^1 in.; stipules ^1 in., somewhat recurved. Heads nodding, 

 globose. 1 in. diam. ; bracts and bracteoles green. Flowers probably unisexual, those 

 of the specimens ? . Calyx ^ in. long, the lobes much longer than the tube. A very 

 distinct genus, allied to Lecananfhus, but differing widely in the calyx and terminal 

 inflorescence. The distinctly epigynous stamens (evidently those of a ^ plant) 

 resemble those of one form of Adcnosacme. I have named it after Mr. Keenan, once 

 an employe of Kew, who formed an excellent collection of Cachar plants in 1874, 

 which he presented to the Herbarium of the Royal Gardens. 



TRIBE VI. 



42. WEBER A, Schreb. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, petioled ; stipules triangular-ovate, usually 

 deciduous. Flowers in terminal coryrnbiform cymes, sessile and 2-bracteoled at 

 the ovary, or pedicelled and bracteolate on the pedicel. Calyx-tube ovoid or 

 turbinate ; limb short or long, 5- very rarely 4-fid or -partite. Corolla funnel- 

 or salver-shaped, tube short" or long, throat glabrous or pubescent; lobes 5, 

 rarely 4, narrow, rarely short,*spreading or reflexed, twisted in bud. Stamens 

 5, rarely 4, on the corolla-mouth ; filaments short or ; anthers slender, ex- 

 serted. Ovary 2-celled; style stout, usually pubescent; stigma long and 

 spindle-shaped, grooved, usually far exserted ; ovules numerous, rarely few or 2 

 or solitary in each cell, often immersed in fleshy peltate placentas. Berry small, 

 globose, 2-celled, cells 1-many-seeded. Seeds plano-convex or cupped, rarely 

 angled; testa various, albumen fleshy or horny; embryo small, cotyledons 

 leafy, radicle pointing variously. DISXRIB. About 40 species, tropical Asiatic. 



As here defined Wcbera includes the 5-nierou.s-flowered plants with 1-ovuled 

 ovarian cells which have been hitherto referred to Ixora and Pavetta, from which 

 they further differ in their short pubescent styles and stout fusiform grooved stigma. 



SECT. I. Euwebera. Ovules 2 or more in each cell. 

 * Corolla-tube equalling or shorter than the lobes. 



