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Obi. by N. W. 

 This \slasiocarpum, Dun. which I have met with on sandy shores 

 at Penang and Singapore, blossoming from August to December. 

 1 have also had specimens from Stlliet, where it is called Goomeet. 

 I take Loureiro's mammosum, fl. cochinch. ed. Willd. i. 162. (not Lin- 

 neus's) to be this plant. — N. W. 



Additional species by N. W. 



16. S.jfarlnosum, Wall. 



Shrubby. Branches armed with short, conical, straight prickles, 

 densely tomentose, mealy and white, as are also the under surface 

 of the leaves, the petiols, and inflorescence. Leaves alternate, oblong- 

 lanceolate, entire, acuminate, smooth above, together with the pe- 

 tiols unarmed. Corymbs lateral, becoming terminal, dichotomous, 

 with nodding, tomentose flowers. — Calyx five-toothed. Berries round, 

 smooth. 



Specimens are preserved in Dr. Heyne's herbarium, labelled 

 " S. argenleum ; — Babobad" which name has been applied already to 

 another species. 



Appears to be a large shrub.— Branches thick, woody, round, ir- 

 regularly beset with short, straight, slightly compressed prickles, which 

 are yellow and lucid at the apex ; extremity thickly covered with 

 white, mealy, stellate, separable tomentum, as are also the petiols, 

 the under-side of the leaves, and the inflorescence; younger ones 

 unarmed. — Leaves alternate, approximate, oblong-lanceolate, from 

 six to eight inches long, tiuely acuminate, perfectly entire, acute at 

 the base, smooth above, very white and mealy uuderneath, with a 

 strong rib, alternate nerves and reticulate veins ; when young tomeu- 

 tose on both sides.— Petiol from half an inch to an inch long, 

 round— Corymb lateral, becoming terminal, erect, peduncled, 

 dichotomous. Flowers very numerous, crowded, drooping, on short 

 peduncles— Ca/y.£ five-toothed, acute, mealy, as is also the outside 



