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axillary, crowded, sub-sessile, much shorter than the leaves. — Tnva- 

 lucres four-leaved, four-flowered ; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, smooth, 

 entire.— Flowers sessile, pretty large, equalling the involucre. — Ca- 

 lyx superior, short, five-toothed, villous. — Com!; tube widening 

 toward the mouth, villous. Border regular, five-parted; segments 



linear, revolute Filaments equalling the segments of the corol, 



is,nd inserted on them below their middle. Anthers oval.— Germ 

 oval, sericeous. Style rather longer than the coiol. Stigma two- 

 lobed. 



Obs. by N. W. 



In the numerous specimens of this remarkable plant which I 

 have received fiom Silhet, where it is called Chhota-gurdol, the 

 young branches and leaves a;e covered with pale furruginous soft 

 hairs; the sessile involucres, too, are slightly villous, — N. W. 



6. L. ampullaceus, R. 



Leaves opposite, oblong, polished. Racemes axillary, simple. 

 Flowers calycled, regular, hexandrous ; tube of the corol gibbous. 

 Berries long, oval. 



Found on trees in the forests of Silhet, but seems to prefer the 

 Mango tree to all others, Floweis in the dry season, probably the 

 whole year round. 



Stems as in our other Indian species, the size and shape very un- 

 certain, but numerous, bifid, trifid or quadrifid, smooth; branches and 

 branchlets spread in all direction-.— Leaves opposite, short-petioled, 

 oblong, entire, smooth, from three to four inches long, and general- 

 ly less than two in breadth. — Racemes axillary, solitary, or in pairs, 

 much shorter than the leaves. — Flowers opposite, short-pedicelled, 

 pretty large, greenish yellow. — Bractes oval, one at the base of 

 each pedicel, and two pressing the base of the germ like an 

 inferior, bilabiate calyx. — Calyx superior, entire, rotate — Curol 

 regular; tube gibbousf border six-cleft; divisions revolute, some- 

 |tfhat spatula te. — Filaments six, from the mouth of the tube of the 



