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hairv. Flowers one or two axillary, sessile. Calyx campanii- 

 late, -,V inch long, with iive acute points, liairy. Corolla j'^- 

 inch long, liairy, dilated at the base, narrowed upwards, 

 limb dilated with five ovate lobes, much shorter than the 

 tube. Fruit globose, hairy, | inch long, crowned with the 

 sepals. Telom Ridge. 



loG. L. KHINOCEEOTIS, BJ. 



A large shrub or almost a tree, the l)iggcst species I know. 

 The flowers are pale rose-pinlc. All the other species in the 

 Peninsida have white flowers. 



1:37. L. coNSPicuus, v. sp. 



Shrub, about 6 feet tall, glalirous. Loaves lanceolate or oblong 

 lanceolate, abruptly acuminate, wdth a broad base, very shortly 

 narrowed, 5-7 inches long, l7r-2 inches wide, thin textured, 

 drying dark brown or black ; nerves inconsiDicuous above, 

 elevated beneath, eight or nine pairs, gradually ascending 

 to the margin, not meeting in loops ; petiole ,\j inch long. 

 Stipules small lanceate, base broad. Bracts linear glalirous. 

 Cymes shorter than the petioles or little longer. Flowers 

 several. Calyx campanulate, hardly toothed. Corolla white 

 cylindric. I inch long, lobes five nearly half as long as 

 the tulie, all glal^rous. except the strong tuft of white hairs in 

 the mouth. Fruit small ovoid, ] inch long, crowned by the 

 five-toothed calyx, pyrenes five. 



Telom, common and conspicuous in the forests from its quite 

 large showy white flowers. 



This resembles L. Lowianus, but has a totally different vena- 

 tion of the leaves, the shape and petiole of which are quite 

 different and the fruit is not angled and has five pyrenes. 



IHS. L. HIRTUS, n. si^. 



Shrub, branches densely hairy, with brown hairs. Leaves 

 lanceolate acuminate, with a long point, nearly sessile, 4-4i 

 inches long, ^-1 inch long, hairy on both sui'faces ; nerves 10 

 pairs, indistinct above and impressed, midrib fringed with 

 long yellow hairs, and the rest of the leaf covered nither 

 thickly with yellow hairs, beneath nerves elevated, nervules 

 conspicuous, all liairy : petiole J^-j inch hairy. Cymes 

 shorter than petiole, densely hairy. Stipules lanceolate 

 acute hairy and stip])ed with longer hairs. Calyx lobes five, 

 densely hairy. Corolla not seen. Fruit small, y^ inch long, 

 hairy at first eventually glabrous, crowned by the densely 

 hairy sepals, pyrenes four. 



Telom Forests. 



This sjecies is near L. (hiixifo'llii!^. 



