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of the petiols, ramous, and crowded with minute white flowers.-— 

 Bractes subulate, one-flowered, beside one or two broader on the 

 short petiols, or pressing the calyx .— Calyx campanuiate, five- 

 parted.-^-CoroZ with a very short tube, and a border of five oval seg- 

 ments. — Filaments five, inserted into the tube, under ihe middle of 

 the segments of the border, short, incurved. — G.erm superior, one- 

 celled, containing numerous ovula, attached to a free receptacle, 

 rising from the bottom of the cell. Style short. Stigma three* 

 iobed, 



4. B. glabra, R. 



Arboreous. Leaves, alternate, ovate-lanceolate, entire, smooth,. 

 Tanicles axillary, smooth. 



A slender tree, with straight, smooth branches, and leaves \ a na- 

 tive of Chittagong, where it flowers in March. 



5. B. tetrandra, R. 



Leaves alternate, oblong, entire. Racemes axillary. Flowers 

 tetrandrous. 



A native of the Moluccas. 



Additions by N. W. 



6. B. (Maesa) argenlea, Wall. 



Shrubby. Leaves. ovate > acuminate, sharply dentate, pubescent, 

 white and silvery underneath. Racemes axillary, short, sub-fascicled. 



1 have found it on Chundiagjri, blossoming in April and May i 

 and with ripe fruit in July- 



A large branchy shrub, from five to six feet high ;. branches elon- 

 gated, sub-scandent, rounded, softly and densely villous while young 

 pubescent when old. — leaves ovate, acuminate, with an acute, 

 entire base, otherwise sharply siuuato- dentate, from six to ei°ht in- 

 ches long, slightly pubescent above, of a silvery white colour under-*, 

 neath ; nerves parallel, opposite, sub-dichotomous, villous.— Petioles 



