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the ovary 5, free. Ovar^^ entire, with a single style. Follicles 2, 

 divergent, teretely linear-lanceolate, not nodose, very firm or 

 somewhat woody when ripe. Seeds numerous, linear or linear- 

 lanceolate, triangular with sharp angles in transverse section, 

 and with a sessile tuft of long, light reddish-brown or rust-colored 

 hairs at the apex. 



Known species three, the type being L. latifolia N. E. Br. 



The name is derived from the Latin, lanugo, down, in allusion, 

 to the downy or velvety-pubescent inner surface of the corolla- 

 lobes. The genus differs from Mascarenhasia by its smaller 

 flowers with shorter tubes and the corolla pubescent on the inner 

 surface, by the glands of the disk being free, the stouter, teretely 

 linear-lanceolate and somewhat woody pods (which in Mas- 

 carenJmsia are slender linear-terete and more or less nodose but 

 not woody) and by the more numerous seeds. 



From Funtumia, to which it is also allied, it may be at once 

 distinguished by the pubescent inner surface of the corolla- 

 lobes and by the sessil tuft of hairs at the apex of the seed (in 

 Funtumia the hairs are scattered along a long beak). 



The following key indicates the characters by which the three 

 species may be recognized. 



Leaves (including the petioles) 9-16 cm. long; corolla-tube lO-li mm. long. 



Leaves 4J^-7 cm. broad, very abruptly or subtruncately rounded into a 

 short blunt point at the apex. i. latifolia 



Leaves 2-3^^ cm. broad, somewhat gradually (not abruptly) narrowed 



into a blunt point at the apex. 2. variegata 



Leaves (including the petioles) 5-8 cm. long and i J^-3 J^ cm. broad, obtusely 



rounded at the apex or rarely with a very short blunt point; corolla-tube 



8 mm. long. 3. micrantha 



/ I. L. latifolia N. E. Brown. A tree about 8 meters high, 

 glabrous on all parts e.xcept the corolla. Leaves opposite, 

 spreading; petiole 8-10 mm. long; blade 8-15 cm. long, elliptic- 

 oblong, abruptly rounded into a blunt point 6-12 mm. long and 

 7-8 mm. broad at its base, rounded in and then very shortly 

 cuneately narrowed into the petiole, smooth and green on both 

 sides; midrib rather deeply impressed above, prominent and 

 rounded beneath; primary lateral veins 10-12 on each side of the 

 midrib, widely spreading, rather slender. Cymes axillary and 

 from one axil only, few or many flowered; peduncles 3-4 mm. 

 long, shorter than the petioles; pedicels 7-14 mm. long. Calyx 

 five-lobed; lobes 2>^-3 mm. long, 13^ to 2 mm. broad, ovate, 

 acute, with minute scales or glands in their axils. Corolla 20-23 

 mm. in diameter, five-lobed; tube 10 mm. long, cylindric, 4 mm. 



