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outer 1—2 pairs close to the margin and faint, the inner pair stout, 
reaching to about the middle of the leaf; main nerves from the 
midrib 6—7 pairs, arching upwards, joined prominent by irregular trans- 
verse nervules and reticulation ; petiole 5 to 10 mm. long, densely 
hispid. Cymes racemose from near the base of the stem, 5 to 10cm. 
long, densely grey-hispid ; bracts many, persistent, linear or linear- 
oblong, up to 1 cm. long ; buds obovate, depressed at top. Perianth 
dull claret-coloured, yellow at centre; tube urceolate-campanulate 
below for 5 mm., annulate within, then spreading and divided to 
below the middle in 3 ovate cordate lobes 5 to 10 mm. in diam., lobes 
rough within. Stamens 6, free above, filaments joined below ; anthers 
2-celled, linear, surmounted by the acute produced connective. Style- 
arms 3, erect, ending in rounded hispid stigmas produced beyond the 
stamens. Capsule7 to 9 cm. long, 4 mm. broad, linear, long acuminate, 
smooth, torulose ; pericarp 4-keeled, the bosses of the seeds prominent 
whendry. Seeds trigonous, oblong, not winged, 4mm. long, prominently 
rugose. Bragantia tomentosa, Blume Enum. Pl. Jav. 82; Duchart. 
in DC. Prodr. XV. i. 431; Benn. in Horsf. Pl. Jav. Rar. 43, t. 11; 
Griff. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIX. 335; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i. 1068 ; 
Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 73. B. khasiana, Griff. lc. B. latifolia, 
Lindl. in Bot. Reg. under t. 1543. Bragantia n. sp. Br. in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. XIII. 219. Ceramium tomentosum, Bl. Bijdr. 1135. Cyc- 
lodiscus tomentosus and latifolius, Klotzsch in Monatsb. Berl. Akad. 
1859, 592. Aristoloch., Wall. Cat. 9108. 
Prenanc: Waterfall, Tanjong Tirie and Paya Trobong, Curtis 
1681!, 2754!. PErak: Wray 3471!. Panane : at Kwala Tembeling, 
Ridley 2256!.—Distrip. India (Sylhet and Cachar), Burma, Java, 
Sumatra (Lampongs, H. O. Forbes 1672 !). 
Var. lanuginosa, Hook. f. Leaves densely white-woolly beneath. 
Kepau : Lankawi Island, Curtis 1681!. At Kwala, Yapp 69 !.— 
Distrie. South Andaman Island (Kurz). 
2. THotTEa, Rottb. 
Shrubs, erect or straggling. Leaves alternate, shortly petioled, 
3—7-ribbed, nerves and reticulations prominent ; stipules 0. Flowers 
usually large, in shortaxillary cymes. Perianth broadly campanulate 
or urceolate, equally 3-lobed, lobes valvate. Stamens biseriate, 
numerous, with short filaments, inserted round the style-column ; 
anthers extrorse ; cells 2, rather distant; connective thick. Ovary 
inferior, elongate, 4-celled ; style short, thick, arms 5—20, radiating, 
