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PLATE 55. | 
‚ 56, Denpropanax LISTERI King in Journ. Аз. Soc. Beng, хуи, 2. 294 (1898), 
Natural order ۸7۶11866۰ 
A small glabrous tree with shrubby habit, 20 feet in height; young branches with 
coarsely lenticellate bark, pale-brown when dry ; /eaves simple, thinly coriaceous, broadly 
elliptic, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate, the edges entire or with a few minute distant 
irregular teeth; both surfaces quite glabrous, the upper dull; the lower reticulate; the 
nerves and midrib distinct on the lower surface, the latter with 2 bold, ascending, curved 
nerves rising from its base and running more than half way to the apex, a small pair 
occasionally rising outside and below these and running close to the margin of the base 
of the leaf; the midrib giving off above its middle 3 or 4 pairs of curving, lateral nerves ; 
length 9—20 cm., breadth 4—10 cm. ; petioles very various in length (from 4 em. to 15 ст.) 
very slender ; panicles axillary, slender, from 10 to 15 em. long, with few umbellate branches, 
the alternate umbels with 4 or 5 sub-globular flowers 4 mm. iu diam.; their pedicels | 
very slender, 8 mm, long; calyz-tube subglobular, its limb narrow and with 5 small 
teeth; frut globular, 5 mm. in diam., crowned by the short styles, connate below but with 
recurved apices. | 
E. Hrwaraya: At Torupatiin the Daphla Hills, Assam; elevation 5,500 feet; J. Г. 
Lister 193! 
This very distinct species of Zendropanaz was collected by Mr, J. L. Lister while 
accompanying the Daphla Hill expedition of 1874. | : 
Pirate 55.—Dendropanax Listeri King. 1, fruiting branch; 2, larger ieaf from another specimen; 
3, young fruit; 4, ripe fruit; 5, the same in section ; 6, seed. 
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PLATE 56. 
57. 'TRICHOLEPIS STICTOPHYLLUM Clarke Comp. Ind. 241 (1876). 
Natural order Composite. 
A perennial, glabrous, scapigerous herb; stem 0, or up to З dm. high, sparingiy 
branched from the base; branches angular, grooved, leafy below; leaves "5 to 1'5 dm. 
long by З to 10 mm., sessile, -amplexicaul, linear or ligulate, tapering to a mucronate 
point, entire cr obscurely toothed, coyered with minute raised points and pellucid-punctate ; 
margin pale, thickened ; veins parallel to the slender midrib; heads 2—3 em. in 
diam., usually solitary at the naked ends of the branches; involucre bracts 1—9 cm. 
long, adpressed, glabrous; outer ovate, acuminate; inner linear-lanceolate, with erect 
flexuous tips; recepfacle bristles many, longer than the асһопев; corolla 1'5 ст. long, light- 
purple, lower portion of tube very slender; filaments papillose; achenes 6 mm. long, oblong 
compressed, truncate, many-ribbed ; basal areole very oblique; tip rather dilated; pappus 
1'5 em. long; hairs soft, silvery-brown, feathery, slightly united at the base. Hook. کر‎ 
Flor. Brit. Ind, iii, 382 (1881). Stictophyllum glabrum .Edgew. in Trans. Lina. Soc, xx. 
78 (1846). Cnicus angustifolius Wall. Cat. 2915 (1830). 
