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ad nervös venasque pilis slellatis instriicla, adulla nervis atque venis parcissime pilosa, 

 ceterum glabra, subtus juniora hinc inde praecipue nervis venisque pilos stellatos 

 gerentia, demum glabrescentia, nervis venisque supra pauUo, subtus manifeste promi- 

 nentibus, nervis lateralibus 6 — 7, venis dense reticulatis nervis lateralibus rectangulariter 

 impositis. Inflorescentia racemosa, 4,5 — 5,5 cm longa, axillaris vel terminalis, 5 — 8- 

 flora; rhachis inflorescentiae flavescenti-tomentosa; bracteae lanceolatae, tomentosae 

 mox caducae. Flores 1,9 cm longi, pedicello 6 — \0 mm longo, flavescenti-piloso ; calyx 

 cupuliformis, membranaceus, 5 mm altus, 6 mm latus, margine truncatus, minutissime 

 5-denticuIatus, extus flavescenti-stellato-tomentosus, intus breviter pilosus; corolla 5- 

 partita, tubo 5 mm longo, lobis multo breviore, lobis in aestivatione imbricatis, mem- 

 branaceis, obovato-oblongis, apice acutis, 1,4 cm longis, 6 mm latis, utrinque adpresse 

 flavescenti-stellato-pilosis; stamina 10, filamentis parte libera planis, basim versus flaves- 

 centi-tomentosis ceterum glabris, 8 mm longis, antherae 4,5 mm longae, margine hinc 

 inde pilis stellatis instructae; ovarium parcissime inferum, multiovulatum, tcmentosum, 

 obovatum; Stylus glaber, staminibus longior. 



Trop. Himalaya: ohne Standort (Griffith); Khasia Hills, im Mai blühend (Ward 

 n. 201); Mont. Sillet (Wallich n. 4400 B); Khasia Hills (Native collectors • of Bot. Gar- 

 dens Calcutta); Assam (Dr. King's coUector). — Herb. DC, Berlin, Wien. 



Nota. Differt a St. virgato petalis strictissime imbricatis latioribus utraque parte multo 

 densius pilosis; inflorescentia magis sparsiflora. 



86. St. grandiflorus Griff. Notul. plant. asiat.TV. (1854) 287; Icon. asiat. (1854) 

 t. 423. — St. serrulatum Roxb. var. virgatus C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. HI. 

 (1882) 589 p.p. — Arbuscula, ligno albo duro (ex Griff.); rami subteretes, 3 — 6 mm 

 lati, juniores fusco-stellato-tomentosi, demum cinereo-brunneo-glabrescentes ; folia altema, 

 petiolata, petiolo ca. 5 mm longo, oblonga vel interdum obovata, 3 — 6 cm longa, 

 1,25 — 2,5 cm lata, apice breviter anguste acuminata apice ipso acutissima, basi cuneata, 

 integra vel in parte 3/4 superiore brevissime indistincte irregulariter denticulata, mem- 

 branacea vel subpapyracea, juniora supra pilos stellatos minutissimos praecipue ad 

 nervös venasque gerentia, adulta glabrescentia, subtus pilis stellatis minutis tenuibus 

 instructa, nervis venisque supra parce subtus manifeste prominentibus, nervis lateralibus 

 ca. 0, Costa angulo acuto insidentibus. Inflorescentia racemosa, 4 — 7 cm longa, 3 — 5- 

 flora, in inferiore et media parte folia gerens, axillaris vel terminalis; rhachis inflores- 

 centiae griseo-flavescenti-stellato-tomentosa; flores albi, fragrantes, 2,5 cm longi (in sicco), 

 pedicellati; pedicello 1 — 2 cm longo, tomentoso; calyx cupuliformis, 7 mm altus, 5 mm 

 latus, margine truncatus minutissime 5-denticulatus, extus praecipue ad basim griseo- 

 flavescenti-stellato-tomentosus, intus glaber; corolla 5-partita (raro 4- part., ex Griff.), 

 tubo 5 mm longo, lobis multo breviore, lobis in aestivatione imbricatis, membranaceis, 

 ovato-oblongis vel oblongis, 1,5 cm longis, 6 mm latis, extus pilis stellatis griseis dense 

 obtectis, intus hinc inde pilis instructis; stamina 10, filamentis albis, parte libera 13 mm 

 longis, ad basim pilosis, antherae luteae lobis multo breviores, margine pilis stellatis 

 instructae; ovarium obovoideum, pauce inferum, tomentosum, multiovulatum, triloculare; 

 Stylus glaber, coroUae lobis longior. 



Hinterindisch-ostasiatische Provinz: Burma ohne Standort (Griffith n. 3671) ; 

 Ober-Burma, Kachin Hills (Shaik Mokim). — Herb. Berlin, Paris, Wien, München, Kew. 



Nota. Gl. Griffith (Notul. pl. asiat. 1. c.) speciera in locis montosis inter Burma et 

 Assam et in silvis prope Namtuzceh (Mens. Mart. a. 1837) et prope Nerapea (19 m. Mart. a. 1837) 

 oecurrere commemorat. 



87. St. americanus Lam. Dict. I. (1783) 82. — Frutex 1—2,5 m altus (ex 

 Gray); rami subteretes, juniores fusco-stellato-tomentosi vel flavescenti-stellato-pilosi vel 

 hie illic pilis stellatis vestiti vel glabri, adulti glabrescentes, 3 — 4 mm lati; folia alterna, 

 petiolata, petiolo 1 — 4 mm longo, 1 mm lato, tomentoso vel parcissime stellato-piloso, 

 obovato-oblonga vel oblonga vel interdum ovato-oblonga vel obovata, 2 — 6 cm longa, 

 \ — 35 cm lata, apice acuta vel breviter acuminata vel interdum rotundata, basi cuneata 

 saepe in petiolum sensim angustata, papyracea, integra vel saepius irregulariter indistincte 



