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surface glabrous, smooth and shining, lower surface pale and with a hard, 

 very thin, grey or tawny tomentum, at lengtli glabrate ; 2 to 4 in. long, 

 1 to 2 in. broad ; midrib stout, very prominent ; main nerves 6 to 

 8 pairs, at first straight, then curving to anastomose near the margin ; 

 reticulations netted ; petiole stout, -25 to '75 in. long. Floivers sessile, 

 in small heads on rigid angular peduncles either 2 together in upper 

 axils or several in short terminal thyrsi ; bract and 2 bracteoles con- 

 cave, thick, shorter than the sepals ; flowers in each head 3 to 6 ; corolla 

 orange-yellow. Calyx-segxn.ents thick, •! to "3 in. long, ovate or suborbi- 

 cular, scarious-ciliate on the margins, the lower part of the back pubes- 

 cent, the rest glabrous. Corolla-tnhe very short, cylindric ; lobes 4, ovate, 

 acute or rounded at lip, subequal, -2 in. long, pubescent without, nearly 

 glabrous within. Stamens exserted ; filaments •! in. long ; anthers 

 •05 in. long ; cells parallel, ellipsoid. Ovary conoidal, tapering into the 

 style, together -25 in. long ; stigmatic lobes curved. Capsules 1 to 

 1*5 in. long, ovoid, compressed, beaked, green with greyish tomentum. 

 Seed 1, completely filling the capsule. Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 700 ; 

 Bedd. For. Man. in Fl. Sylv. CLXXIV., and Anal. Gen. t. 22, fig. 2 ; 

 Brandis For. Fl. 371 ; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 363 ; Clarke in Hook, 

 f . Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 604 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 912 ; Koord. & Val. 

 Bijdr. VII. 217 ; Cooke Bomb. Fl. II. 435 ; Prain Beng. Plants 838. 

 A. resinifera, Forsk. ; Dene, in Nouv. Ann. Mus. III. 402. A. tomen- 

 tosa, Br. Prodr. Flor. Nov. Holl. I. 518; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 88; Wall. 

 PI. As. Ear. III. 44, t. 271 ; Wight Ic. t. 1481 ; Blume Bijdr. 821 ; 

 Griff. Notul. IV. 185 ; Kurz For. Fl. II. 276. Halodendron Thouarsii, 

 Eoem. & Sell. Syst. III. 485. " Mangmm album," Eumph. Herb. Amb. 

 III. t. 76. " OejMta," Eheede Hort. Mai. IV. t. 45. 



Penang: Wallich 1742 ; Curtis 3533. Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 6069 ; 

 Maingay (K.D.) 1208. Singapore: T. Anderson 79; Eiver valley road, 

 Bidley 10370; Hullett 163. — Disteib. Coasts of India, Ceylon, Burma, 

 Java, eastwards to the Pacific : in tidal creeks and on muddy coasts. 



2. x\vicENNiA ALBA, Blume Bijdr. 821 (1826). A shrub or small 

 tree ; branchlets pale brown, shining, obscurely quadrangular ; innova- 

 tions and inflorescence shortly appressed, whitish- or tawny-tomentose. 

 Leaves coriaceous ; lanceolate, acute or acuminate at apex, attenuate at 

 base ; glabrous on both surfaces or whitish-tomentose beneath (especi- 

 ally when young) ; 2 to 5 in. long, -75 to 2 in. broad ; midrib prominent ; 

 main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, curving upwards to anastomose near the 

 margin ; secondary nerves few, meeting few arched transverse nervules, 

 all somewhat raised on the upper surface ; petiole thick, -25 to '5 in. 

 long. Flowers sessile, either in small capitate heads or in distichous 

 spikes in short terminal or axillary panicles ; rachises and peduncles 



