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Collector 10732!—DistrrB. India, Burma, Java, Sumatra (Lampor, 
180m. Forbes 2650!), Borneo, Philippines. 
Agruva, Forsk. 
Herbs or undershrubs, more or less woolly. Leaves alternate or 
opposite. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, in simple or 
panicled spikes; bract and 2 bracteoles small. Perianth 5-(rarely 
4-) lobed, lobes equal or the outer broader, usually more or less 
woolly. Stamens 5, connate with short or long intervening staminodes 
in a short hypogynous cup; anthers 2-celled. Ovary ovoid or sub- 
globose, I-celled ; ovule solitary, pendulous from a long basal funicle ; 
style simple, short or long ; stigma capitellate. Fruit a membranous 
utricle or circumsciss capsule with coriaceous crown. Seed inverse; 
testa coriaceous; Hmbryo annular, surrounding floury albumen; 
cotyledons linear; radicle inferior.—Disrris. Tropical Africa and 
Asia, species about 15. 
1. Azrua Cortisi1, Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 2201 (1892). A 
straggling undershrub or herb apparently perennial; branchlets pale, 
crispate-pubescent, grooved when dry. Leaves opposite, membra- 
nous; lanceolate, acuminate at apex, acuminate and long decurrent 
on the petiole at the base; upper surface puberulous at length glab- 
rous, lower softly pubescent with whitish hairs, at length nearly 
glabrous ; 6—12 cm. long, 2—5 cm. broad: midrib slender ; main nerves 
6 pairs, oblique ; transverse nervules and reticulations obscure ; petiole 
slender, 1—2cm.long. Flowersin spikes, 2—4 cm. longin axillary sub- 
umbellate panicles or fascicles on a slender peduncle 1—3 cm. Jong; 
bract and 2 bracteoles ovate acuminate, 1 mm. long, the former 
persistent after the fall of the fruit with the bracteoles and perianth ; 
rachis softly strigosely pubescent. Perzanth-lobes ovate-oblong. 
acute, white, scarious, 5—7-nerved, 2—3 mm. long. Stamens small, 
the cup and staminodes hyaline, the filaments deltoid-subulate; anthers 
suborbicular. Ovary membranous, subglobose; style short; stigma 
capitate; ovule pendulous on a long funicle. Utricle membranous. 
Seed deeply and obliquely reniform, 2 mm. in diam.; testa black. 
minutely puncticulate. 
PERAK: bottom of Waterloo Estate, Curtis 2712! Scortechini ! 
on rocks in Upper Perak, at 90 m. alt., Wray 3698 ! 
This species has not much the appearance of a species of rua; it more 
nearly resembles a Psilotrichum as I at first believed it to be. The presence, 
however, of antherless filaments between the stamens requires it to be des- 
cribed in “rua. 
