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has most kindly communicated the following descriptions together 

 with dried specimens. 



It undoubtedly comes near to Patima of Aublet, as far a* can be 

 judged fn>in his imperfect account of it; also to Sabicea ol the 

 same author (Sclwenkfeldia, Schreber.) From the latter it differs 

 chiefly in the form of the coiolla- 



]. U. villomm, Wall. 



Villous. Branches round. Calyx five-cleft. 



^Native country, Pulo-Penang. 



A shrub with round villous branches. Leaves opposite, petroled, 

 oblong-lanceolaie, about ten inches long, terminated by a very long 

 linear acumen ; entire, smooth above, villous beneath. Petiots short. 

 Slijules iuterpetiolar, longer than the petioles, obloug, acute. Pe- 

 duncles axillary, short, supporting a verticillate capitulum of sub- 

 sessile floweis. Evades numerous, lanceolate, acute ; four longer 

 ones foiming a kind of involucrum beneath each verticil. — Calyx 

 superior., short, campanuiate, five-parted, vith one or two smaller 

 addi lunal lagiuiae. Coiolla greenish, rather longer than the calyx, 

 hirsute at the faux ; limb five-parted ; lacinm ovate, acute, thicken- 

 ed at tl>e points. — Aestivation valvate. Stamina five, shorter than 

 the limb, and alternating with its laciniae; anthers linear, acute, 

 emarginate at the base. — Style erect, of the length of the stamina. 

 Stigma thick, five-parted. Ovarium crowned with a white glandular 

 disc, into which the style is inserted. — Berry ovate, villoua, five- 

 celled, polyspermous; placenta from the inner angle of the cells,)** 

 Jack's Mss. 



Obs. by N. W. 



Branches as well as the vessels of the leaves densely cloafhed 

 with soft hairiness ; marked with vestiges of the fallen stipules. — 

 Leaves spreading; their base rounded or obscurely retuse; acumen 

 two inches long ; shining above ; theund^r side with approximate pa- 

 rallel nerves and reticulate veins j their petiol thick, rounded, scarce- 



